1979 CRC Chemicals Rebel 500

Darlington Raceway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Darrell Waltrip	2	36	23	3	8	242	367	501.3

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	2	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	367	242	running	185
2	6	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	367	89	running	175
3	1	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	367	3	running	170
4	5	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	365		running	160
5	7	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	365		running	155
6	9	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	364		running	150
7	12	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Mercury	362		running	146
8	4	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	360	19	running	147
9	16	05	Dick Brooks	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Oldsmobile	360		running	138
10	20	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	358		running	134
11	21	19	Lennie Pond	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	356		running	130
12	19	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	354		running	127
13	10	12	Neil Bonnett	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Oldsmobile	352		running	124
14	27	75	Butch Hartman	Butch Hartman (Owner)	Chevrolet	351		running	121
15	17	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	348		running	118
16	22	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	342		running	115
17	18	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	340		running	112
18	34	8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Chrysler	340		running	109
19	26	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	338		running	106
20	35	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	330		running	103
21	14	7	Al Holbert	Al Holbert (Owner)	Chevrolet	308		steering	100
22	8	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	301	3	accident	102
23	13	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	300	4	running	99
24	36	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	286		running	91
25	29	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	285		running	88
26	3	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	246	6	engine	90
27	15	02	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	193	1	cylinder head	87
28	23	74	Bobby Wawak	Wawak Racing	Chevrolet	165		engine	79
29	11	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	135		overheating	76
30	24	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	119		accident	73
31	30	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	109		engine	70
32	25	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Oldsmobile	87		broken valve	67
33	33	99	Dick May	Hollar Racing	Chevrolet	87		oil pressure	64
34	28	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	71		engine	61
35	31	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	49		overheating	58
36	32	46	Travis Tiller	Morgan-McClure	Dodge	5		engine	55

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	242	65.9%	P1
2	Richard Petty	89	24.3%	P2
3	Ricky Rudd	19	5.2%	P8
4	Bobby Allison	6	1.6%	P26
5	Dale Earnhardt	4	1.1%	P23
6	Donnie Allison	3	0.8%	P3
7	David Pearson	3	0.8%	P22
8	Dave Marcis	1	0.3%	P27

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