1979 Atlanta 500

Atlanta Motor Speedway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Buddy Baker	1	40	21	3	6	88	328	499.2

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	1	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Oldsmobile	328	88	running	180
2	2	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	328	167	running	180
3	6	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	328	3	running	170
4	4	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	327	22	running	165
5	3	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	327		running	155
6	15	02	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	327		running	150
7	14	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	326		running	146
8	13	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Oldsmobile	326		running	142
9	8	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	325		running	138
10	12	05	Dick Brooks	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Oldsmobile	325		running	134
11	11	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Oldsmobile	324		running	130
12	17	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Buick	321		running	127
13	22	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	321		running	124
14	24	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Buick	321		running	121
15	16	50	Bruce Hill	Ballard Racing	Oldsmobile	321		running	118
16	9	68	Chuck Bown	Testa Racing	Buick	315		running	115
17	32	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Oldsmobile	314		running	112
18	5	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	299	42	engine	114
19	37	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	295		running	106
20	26	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	295		running	103
21	23	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	282		running	100
22	30	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	273		engine	97
23	29	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	249		running	94
24	27	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	221		overheating	91
25	7	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	211		engine	88
26	36	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	172		accident	85
27	35	6	Claude Ballot-Lena	GC Spencer Racing	Oldsmobile	168		accident	0
28	34	41	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Chevrolet	133		accident	79
29	38	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	129		head gasket	76
30	20	39	Blackie Wangerin	Wangerin Racing	Mercury	126		transmission	73
31	31	98	Ralph Jones	Ralph Jones (Owner)	Ford	125		clutch	70
32	18	37	Dave Watson	Phil Howard (Owner)	Chevrolet	123	6	withdrew	72
33	25	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	82		transmission	64
34	39	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Buick	71		handling	61
35	21	47	Geoff Bodine	Race Hill Farm Team	Oldsmobile	66		handling	58
36	10	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Mercury	61		steering	0
37	28	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Buick	54		steering	52
38	19	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	53		accident	49
39	33	0	John Kennedy	John Kennedy (Owner)	Chevrolet	50		accident	46
40	40	53	Keith Davis	Keith Davis (Owner)	Chevrolet	15		rear end	43

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Bobby Allison	167	50.9%	P2
2	Buddy Baker	88	26.8%	P1
3	David Pearson	42	12.8%	P18
4	Cale Yarborough	22	6.7%	P4
5	Dave Watson	6	1.8%	P32
6	Darrell Waltrip	3	0.9%	P3

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