1979 Los Angeles Times 500

Ontario Motor Speedway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Benny Parsons	2	37	26	7	9	56	200	500

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	2	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	200	56	running	185
2	3	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	200	17	running	175
3	1	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	200	55	running	170
4	4	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	200	39	running	165
5	5	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	200	6	running	160
6	7	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	200		running	150
7	13	05	Dick Brooks	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Chevrolet	200	16	running	151
8	10	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	199	2	running	147
9	6	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	199	8	running	143
10	8	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	199	1	running	139
11	9	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	199		running	130
12	11	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	199		running	127
13	21	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Oldsmobile	196		running	124
14	26	42	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	196		running	121
15	17	50	Bruce Hill	Ballard Racing	Oldsmobile	196		running	0
16	23	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	195		running	115
17	28	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	195		running	112
18	15	73	Bill Schmitt	Schmitt Racing	Oldsmobile	194		running	109
19	25	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	194		running	106
20	19	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Chevrolet	193		water pump	103
21	30	45	Roy Smith	Price Racing	Oldsmobile	193		running	100
22	33	10	Tim Williamson	Tim Williamson (Owner)	Chevrolet	191		running	97
23	29	74	Hal Callentine	Hal Callentine (Owner)	Oldsmobile	191		running	94
24	31	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	190		running	91
25	34	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	186		running	88
26	27	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	153		brakes	85
27	18	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	147		engine	82
28	16	18	Randy Ogden	Ogden Racing	Chevrolet	135		head gasket	0
29	12	12	Buck Simmons	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Chevrolet	123		transmission	76
30	37	22	Richard White	Mike White (Owner)	Chevrolet	121		running	73
31	20	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	104		engine	70
32	35	78	Jim Robinson	A.J. Kurten (Owner)	Chevrolet	104		ignition	67
33	22	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	57		engine	64
34	36	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	49		running	61
35	24	31	John Rezek	RPM Enterprises	Buick	38		accident	0
36	14	01	Jimmy Insolo	Gerald Craker (Owner)	Oldsmobile	36		rocker arm	55
37	32	19	Vince Giamformaggio	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	26		engine	52

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Benny Parsons	56	28.0%	P1
2	Cale Yarborough	55	27.5%	P3
3	Buddy Baker	39	19.5%	P4
4	Bobby Allison	17	8.5%	P2
5	Dick Brooks	16	8.0%	P7
6	Dale Earnhardt	8	4.0%	P9
7	Richard Petty	6	3.0%	P5
8	Darrell Waltrip	2	1.0%	P8
9	Ricky Rudd	1	0.5%	P10

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