1979 Volunteer 500

Bristol Motor Speedway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Darrell Waltrip	5	30	20	3	6	33	500	266.5

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	5	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	500	33	running	180
2	1	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	500	77	running	175
3	2	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	500	106	running	170
4	7	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	499	254	running	170
5	4	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	497		running	155
6	12	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Oldsmobile	497		running	150
7	3	2	David Pearson	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	496		running	146
8	10	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	493		running	142
9	11	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	Chevrolet	493		running	138
10	17	17	Bill Elliott	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	487		running	134
11	14	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	484		running	130
12	15	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	483		running	127
13	23	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	472		running	124
14	24	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	468		running	121
15	20	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	456		running	118
16	6	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Chevrolet	445	16	running	120
17	21	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	444		running	112
18	8	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	434	14	accident	114
19	19	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	416		running	106
20	16	05	Dick Brooks	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Oldsmobile	392		rear end	103
21	27	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	392		accident	100
22	25	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	388		running	97
23	22	76	Mike Potter	Potter Racing	Chevrolet	311		ignition	94
24	29	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	274		running	91
25	9	12	Jack Ingram	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Chevrolet	197		valve spring	88
26	18	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	104		broken valve	85
27	13	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	79		engine	82
28	26	59	Melvin Revis	Danny Queen (Owner)	Chevrolet	76		trailing arm	0
29	30	69	Henry Jones	Mike Kempton (Owner)	Chevrolet	48		too slow	76
30	28	0	John Kennedy	John Kennedy (Owner)	Chevrolet	2		cylinder head	73

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Benny Parsons	254	50.8%	P4
2	Bobby Allison	106	21.2%	P3
3	Richard Petty	77	15.4%	P2
4	Darrell Waltrip	33	6.6%	P1
5	Harry Gant	16	3.2%	P16
6	Dave Marcis	14	2.8%	P18

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