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1979 Texas 400

Texas World Speedway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Darrell Waltrip	4	34	24	1	4	155	200	400

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	4	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	200	155	running	185
2	6	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	199		running	170
3	1	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	199	3	running	170
4	5	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	199		running	160
5	2	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	196	1	running	160
6	9	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	195		running	150
7	19	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	193		running	146
8	10	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	192		running	142
9	17	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	192		running	138
10	16	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	190		running	134
11	24	31	John Rezek	RPM Enterprises	Oldsmobile	190		running	130
12	3	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	189	41	accident	132
13	13	50	Bruce Hill	Ballard Racing	Buick	189		running	124
14	21	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	186		running	121
15	12	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Buick	186		running	118
16	25	36	H.B. Bailey	Bailey Racing	Pontiac	185		running	115
17	22	19	Billy Hagan	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	185		running	112
18	29	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	184		running	109
19	18	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	181		running	106
20	14	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	180		running	103
21	31	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	174		running	100
22	26	76	Mike Potter	Potter Racing	Chevrolet	174		running	0
23	23	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	173		running	94
24	27	96	James Hurlbert	Cronkrite Racing	Ford	150		running	91
25	8	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	143		broken spindle	88
26	15	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	140		wheel stud	85
27	20	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	139		transmission	82
28	7	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	135		dropped valve	79
29	33	69	Mike Kempton	Mike Kempton (Owner)	Chevrolet	135		running	76
30	30	09	Dick May	Oswald Racing	Oldsmobile	113		camshaft	73
31	11	12	Lennie Pond	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Chevrolet	70		engine	70
32	32	55	Bill Meazell	Bill Meazell (Owner)	Chevrolet	46		engine	67
33	34	58	John Haver	John Haver (Owner)	Chevrolet	36		engine	0
34	28	32	Jimmy Finger	B & B Racing	Buick	5		engine	61

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	155	77.5%	P1
2	Dale Earnhardt	41	20.5%	P12
3	Buddy Baker	3	1.5%	P3
4	Terry Labonte	1	0.5%	P5

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