1979 Busch Nashville 420

Nashville Speedway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Darrell Waltrip	1	30	15	1	2	409	420	250.3

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	1	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	420	409	running	185
2	5	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	419		running	170
3	3	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	417		running	165
4	9	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	417		running	160
5	6	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	406		running	155
6	19	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	406		running	150
7	17	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	405		running	146
8	10	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	404		running	142
9	21	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	396		running	138
10	20	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	394		running	134
11	16	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	391		running	130
12	18	55	Wayne Watercutter		Chevrolet	390		running	127
13	26	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Oldsmobile	380		running	124
14	27	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	374		running	121
15	14	14	Sterling Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	341	11	broken lug nuts	123
16	2	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	340		running	115
17	23	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	272		engine	112
18	24	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	250		accident	109
19	7	05	Dick Brooks	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Chevrolet	155		oil leak	106
20	11	19	Steve Spencer	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	151		water pump	103
21	4	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	150		accident	100
22	13	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Chevrolet	142		engine	97
23	12	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	114		overheating	94
24	25	98	Ralph Jones	Ralph Jones (Owner)	Ford	92		oil leak	91
25	8	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	40		piston	88
26	28	69	Henry Jones	Mike Kempton (Owner)	Chevrolet	19		engine	85
27	15	09	Nelson Oswald	Oswald Racing	Chevrolet	6		engine	82
28	22	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	5		engine	79
29	30	58	Dick May	Satterfield Racing	Chevrolet	3		engine	76
30	29	10	Jimmy Hindman	Jimmy Hindman (Owner)	Ford	2		oil leak	0

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	409	97.4%	P1
2	Sterling Marlin	11	2.6%	P15

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1979 Busch Nashville 420

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