1979 Dixie 500

Atlanta Motor Speedway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Neil Bonnett	4	41	23	4	7	54	328	499.2

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	4	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	328	54	running	180
2	7	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	328	69	running	175
3	2	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	328	136	running	175
4	3	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	328	3	running	165
5	14	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	327	10	running	160
6	13	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	327		running	150
7	12	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	325		running	146
8	6	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	324		running	142
9	10	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	321		running	138
10	24	77	Jody Ridley	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	320		running	134
11	17	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Oldsmobile	320		running	130
12	18	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	319		running	127
13	33	51	Slick Johnson	JD Johnson Racing	Chevrolet	317		running	124
14	26	12	Buck Simmons	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Chevrolet	315		running	121
15	22	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	314		running	118
16	21	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	314		running	115
17	31	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	314		running	112
18	34	00	Freddy Smith	Marvin Petty (Owner)	Chevrolet	313		running	0
19	27	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	312		running	106
20	30	36	H.B. Bailey	Bailey Racing	Pontiac	307		running	0
21	36	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	297		running	100
22	15	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	270		running	97
23	11	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	266		engine	94
24	16	08	John Anderson	Russ Draime (Owner)	Chevrolet	256		engine	91
25	19	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Buick	245		engine	88
26	39	55	Wayne Watercutter	Wayne Watercutter (Owner)	Chevrolet	243		running	85
27	20	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Buick	236		oil leak	82
28	23	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	212		engine	79
29	5	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Buick	211		accident	76
30	32	98	Ralph Jones	Ralph Jones (Owner)	Ford	202		dead battery	73
31	8	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	193	53	engine	75
32	37	42	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	176		engine	67
33	35	81	David Sosebee	Sosebee Racing	Chevrolet	163		engine	64
34	28	17	Steve Pfeifer	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	162		accident	61
35	9	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	158		oil leak	58
36	38	31	John Rezek	RPM Enterprises	Oldsmobile	117		engine	0
37	40	18	Randy Ogden	Ogden Racing	Chevrolet	111		engine	0
38	41	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	103		too slow	49
39	1	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	88	3	engine	51
40	25	05	Dick Brooks	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Chevrolet	44		ignition	43
41	29	0	Dick May	John Kennedy (Owner)	Chevrolet	4		dropped valve	40

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Cale Yarborough	136	41.5%	P3
2	Dale Earnhardt	69	21.0%	P2
3	Neil Bonnett	54	16.5%	P1
4	Benny Parsons	53	16.2%	P31
5	Darrell Waltrip	10	3.0%	P5
6	Bobby Allison	3	0.9%	P4
7	Buddy Baker	3	0.9%	P39

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