1979 Capital City 400

Richmond Raceway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Bobby Allison	2	26	20	2	4	369	400	216.8

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	2	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	400	369	running	185
2	5	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	400	11	running	175
3	10	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	Ford	399	1	running	170
4	1	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	399	19	running	165
5	3	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	398		running	155
6	7	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	398		running	150
7	9	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	397		running	146
8	6	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	397		running	142
9	8	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Chevrolet	397		running	138
10	4	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	395		running	134
11	12	17	Bill Elliott	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	390		running	130
12	13	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	386		running	127
13	20	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	384		running	124
14	16	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	381		running	121
15	18	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	379		running	118
16	23	75	Bill Elswick	RahMoc Enterprises	Oldsmobile	372		running	115
17	14	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	371		running	112
18	26	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	365		running	109
19	22	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	365		running	106
20	24	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	330		running	103
21	15	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	262		accident	100
22	21	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	233		rear end	97
23	17	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	227		engine	94
24	19	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	173		piston	91
25	11	19	Lennie Pond	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	141		brakes	88
26	25	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	2		distributor	85

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Bobby Allison	369	92.3%	P1
2	Dale Earnhardt	19	4.8%	P4
3	Darrell Waltrip	11	2.8%	P2
4	Ricky Rudd	1	0.3%	P3