1979 Coca-Cola 500

Pocono Raceway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Cale Yarborough	2	39	23	8	8	61	200	500

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	2	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	200	61	running	180
2	10	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	200	17	running	175
3	9	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	200	7	running	170
4	5	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	200		running	160
5	6	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	200		running	155
6	15	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	200		running	150
7	18	22	Darrell Waltrip	Al Rudd Auto	Chevrolet	200	62	running	156
8	7	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	200	8	running	147
9	4	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	199	1	running	143
10	16	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Buick	198		running	134
11	23	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	197		running	130
12	39	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	196		running	127
13	13	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	196		running	124
14	17	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	196		running	121
15	1	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Chevrolet	195	1	running	123
16	20	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	194		running	115
17	24	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	190		running	112
18	25	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	189		running	109
19	28	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	188		ignition	106
20	19	05	Dick Brooks	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Chevrolet	188		running	103
21	36	34	Steve Peles	Steve Peles (Owner)	Chevrolet	187		running	100
22	21	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	187		ignition	97
23	12	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	184		running	94
24	29	63	Jocko Maggiacomo	Jockos Racing	Oldsmobile	172		running	91
25	33	09	Nelson Oswald	Oswald Racing	Chevrolet	168		engine	88
26	34	20	Rick Newsom	Newsom Racing	Oldsmobile	166		running	85
27	32	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	140		engine	82
28	22	57	Dick May	McClure Motors	Ford	103		engine	79
29	3	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	98	43	accident	81
30	35	61	Wayne Broome	Jim Norris (Owner)	Oldsmobile	92		engine	73
31	31	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	88		engine	70
32	27	55	Wayne Watercutter		Chevrolet	48		accident	0
33	38	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	40		broken valve	64
34	11	12	Lennie Pond	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Oldsmobile	15		steering	61
35	14	87	Gary Balough	Billie Harvey (Owner)	Oldsmobile	9		clutch	58
36	37	23	Louis Gatto		Chevrolet	5		ignition	55
37	8	7	Al Holbert	Al Holbert (Owner)	Chevrolet	1		accident	52
38	26	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Oldsmobile	1		accident	49
39	30	19	Steve Gray	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	1		accident	46

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	62	31.0%	P7
2	Cale Yarborough	61	30.5%	P1
3	Dale Earnhardt	43	21.5%	P29
4	Richard Petty	17	8.5%	P2
5	Neil Bonnett	8	4.0%	P8
6	Buddy Baker	7	3.5%	P3
7	Bobby Allison	1	0.5%	P9
8	Harry Gant	1	0.5%	P15

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1979 Coca-Cola 500

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