1979 Southern 500

Darlington Raceway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
David Pearson	5	40	27	1	7	74	367	501.3

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	5	2	David Pearson	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	367	74	running	180
2	6	17	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Mercury	365	6	running	175
3	16	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	365		running	165
4	10	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	365	1	running	165
5	13	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	364		running	155
6	19	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	362		running	150
7	8	05	Dick Brooks	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Chevrolet	361		running	146
8	14	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	361		running	142
9	4	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	361		running	138
10	1	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	356	53	running	139
11	3	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	355	165	running	140
12	7	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Chevrolet	352		running	127
13	17	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Buick	350		running	124
14	22	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	347		running	121
15	12	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	347		running	118
16	24	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	345		running	115
17	21	68	Chuck Bown	Testa Racing	Buick	342		running	112
18	38	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	341		running	109
19	11	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	336		running	106
20	33	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Chrysler	333		running	103
21	30	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	332		running	100
22	32	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	331		running	97
23	35	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	324		running	94
24	28	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	310		running	91
25	15	19	Lennie Pond	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	281		running	88
26	31	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	246		running	85
27	36	36	H.B. Bailey	Bailey Racing	Pontiac	244		overheating	82
28	26	9	Jim Vandiver	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	240		running	79
29	25	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	224		piston	76
30	20	12	Jack Ingram	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Oldsmobile	206		engine	73
31	2	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	195	66	cylinder head	75
32	9	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	185	2	steering	72
33	39	10	Billy Smith	Champion Racing	Ford	179		drive shaft	64
34	23	65	Dick May	Spohn Racing	Ford	148		accident	0
35	29	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Buick	133		accident	58
36	18	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	112		engine	55
37	40	98	Ralph Jones	Ralph Jones (Owner)	Ford	83		broken valve	52
38	27	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	46		broken valve	49
39	37	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	17		oil leak	46
40	34	96	Ferrel Harris	Cronkrite Racing	Ford	2		too slow	0

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	165	45.0%	P11
2	David Pearson	74	20.2%	P1
3	Donnie Allison	66	18.0%	P31
4	Bobby Allison	53	14.4%	P10
5	Bill Elliott	6	1.6%	P2
6	Neil Bonnett	2	0.5%	P32
7	Buddy Baker	1	0.3%	P4

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