1979 Talladega 500

Talladega Superspeedway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Darrell Waltrip	8	41	19	2	8	102	188	500.1

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	8	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Oldsmobile	188	102	running	185
2	2	2	David Pearson	Osterlund Motorsports	Oldsmobile	188	17	running	175
3	11	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	186		running	165
4	13	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Oldsmobile	186	4	running	165
5	25	77	Jody Ridley	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	186		running	155
6	3	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Buick	186		running	150
7	21	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Oldsmobile	184		running	146
8	6	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	181		running	142
9	18	42	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	181		running	138
10	20	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	179		running	134
11	24	05	Dick Brooks	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Oldsmobile	177		running	130
12	22	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Mercury	176		running	127
13	37	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	175		running	124
14	38	19	Bob Burcham	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	172		running	121
15	34	20	Rick Newsom	Newsom Racing	Oldsmobile	172		running	118
16	10	50	Bruce Hill	Ballard Racing	Oldsmobile	171		engine	115
17	39	73	Steve Moore	Gilbert Moore (Owner)	Chevrolet	170		running	112
18	31	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	163		running	109
19	7	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Oldsmobile	162	5	dropped valve	111
20	30	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Oldsmobile	159		running	103
21	12	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Oldsmobile	146	5	engine	105
22	32	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Buick	143		engine	97
23	9	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	142		running	94
24	5	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	138	14	engine	96
25	26	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Oldsmobile	120	1	engine	93
26	36	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Oldsmobile	95		engine	85
27	35	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Buick	92		engine	82
28	19	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	90		engine	79
29	33	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	87		engine	76
30	23	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	83		dropped valve	73
31	14	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	75		timing chain	70
32	40	36	Marty Robbins	Robbins Racing	Dodge	75		engine	67
33	15	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Buick	75		engine	64
34	1	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	71	40	engine	66
35	16	12	Jack Ingram	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Oldsmobile	70		clutch	58
36	27	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	58		engine	55
37	29	39	Blackie Wangerin	Wangerin Racing	Mercury	50		oil pressure	52
38	17	7	Al Holbert	Al Holbert (Owner)	Oldsmobile	47		engine	0
39	4	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Oldsmobile	41		dropped valve	46
40	41	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	40		engine	43
41	28	87	Dick May	Billie Harvey (Owner)	Oldsmobile	0		oil pressure	0

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	102	54.3%	P1
2	Neil Bonnett	40	21.3%	P34
3	David Pearson	17	9.0%	P2
4	Cale Yarborough	14	7.4%	P24
5	Grant Adcox	5	2.7%	P19
6	Benny Parsons	5	2.7%	P21
7	Richard Petty	4	2.1%	P4
8	Joe Millikan	1	0.5%	P25

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