1979 Firecracker 400

Daytona International Speedway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Neil Bonnett	2	41	24	3	8	77	160	400

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	2	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	160	77	running	185
2	3	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Oldsmobile	160	6	running	175
3	21	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Oldsmobile	160	1	running	170
4	6	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Oldsmobile	159	54	running	165
5	11	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Oldsmobile	158	2	running	160
6	12	68	Chuck Bown	Testa Racing	Buick	157		running	150
7	15	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Oldsmobile	157		running	146
8	24	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Oldsmobile	156		running	142
9	37	05	Dick Brooks	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Oldsmobile	156		running	138
10	8	51	A.J. Foyt	A.J. Foyt Racing	Oldsmobile	156	3	running	0
11	27	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Mercury	156		running	130
12	23	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	155		running	127
13	19	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	155		running	124
14	9	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Buick	154		running	121
15	7	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	154		running	118
16	26	87	Gary Balough	Billie Harvey (Owner)	Oldsmobile	154		running	0
17	22	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	151		running	112
18	35	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Buick	151		running	109
19	30	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	151	1	running	111
20	5	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	149		running	103
21	32	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	146		running	100
22	38	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	146		running	97
23	40	20	Rick Newsom	Newsom Racing	Oldsmobile	145		running	94
24	33	39	Blackie Wangerin	Wangerin Racing	Mercury	144		flat tire	91
25	28	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	138		engine	88
26	17	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Oldsmobile	137		running	85
27	36	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	121		rear end	82
28	13	12	Lennie Pond	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Oldsmobile	105		engine	79
29	10	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Buick	89		accident	76
30	20	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	89		accident	73
31	31	6	Claude Ballot-Lena	GC Spencer Racing	Oldsmobile	83		engine	0
32	18	7	Al Holbert	Al Holbert (Owner)	Chevrolet	82		broken spindle	0
33	4	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Oldsmobile	81		engine	64
34	1	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Oldsmobile	57	16	ignition	66
35	41	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	50		broken valve	58
36	39	46	Travis Tiller	Morgan-McClure	Dodge	46		broken valve	55
37	16	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	28		piston	52
38	29	38	Sandy Satullo	Sandy Satullo (Owner)	Buick	18		accident	49
39	34	32	Jimmy Finger	B & B Racing	Buick	17		accident	46
40	14	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	7		engine	43
41	25	50	Bruce Hill	Ballard Racing	Buick	1		engine	40

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Neil Bonnett	77	48.1%	P1
2	Darrell Waltrip	54	33.8%	P4
3	Buddy Baker	16	10.0%	P34
4	Benny Parsons	6	3.8%	P2
5	A.J. Foyt	3	1.9%	P10
6	Richard Petty	2	1.3%	P5
7	Dale Earnhardt	1	0.6%	P3
8	James Hylton	1	0.6%	P19

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