1979 Virginia 500

Martinsville Speedway · 1979 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Richard Petty	2	30	21	2	5	247	500	262.5

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	2	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	500	247	running	185
2	4	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	500	196	running	175
3	1	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	499	49	running	170
4	3	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	498	1	running	165
5	8	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Chevrolet	497		running	155
6	21	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Chevrolet	497		running	150
7	14	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	495	7	running	151
8	11	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	495		running	142
9	19	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	494		running	138
10	10	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	493		running	134
11	5	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	492		running	130
12	17	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	Ford	489		running	127
13	22	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Buick	488		running	124
14	16	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	485		running	121
15	15	40	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	476		running	118
16	25	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	476		running	115
17	30	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	474		running	112
18	20	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	472		running	109
19	13	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	458		running	106
20	26	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	454		running	103
21	27	05	Dick Brooks	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Oldsmobile	437		running	100
22	18	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	312		engine	97
23	7	68	Chuck Bown	Testa Racing	Buick	263		engine	0
24	29	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Chevrolet	247		engine	91
25	9	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	207		head gasket	88
26	24	02	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	167		engine	85
27	12	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	137		engine	82
28	28	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	132		overheating	79
29	6	12	Lennie Pond	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Chevrolet	10		engine	76
30	23	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	0		engine	0

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Richard Petty	247	49.4%	P1
2	Buddy Baker	196	39.2%	P2
3	Darrell Waltrip	49	9.8%	P3
4	James Hylton	7	1.4%	P7
5	Bobby Allison	1	0.2%	P4

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