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1980 Daytona 500

Daytona International Speedway · 1980 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Buddy Baker	1	42	23	2	7	143	200	500

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	1	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Oldsmobile	200	143	running	185
2	9	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Mercury	200	9	running	175
3	3	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	199	8	running	170
4	32	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Oldsmobile	199	10	running	165
5	14	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Oldsmobile	197		running	155
6	17	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Oldsmobile	197		running	150
7	2	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	Oldsmobile	195	2	running	151
8	36	14	Sterling Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	194		running	142
9	12	75	Lennie Pond	RahMoc Enterprises	Buick	194		running	138
10	27	90	Jody Ridley	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	194		running	134
11	18	82	Janet Guthrie	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	193		running	130
12	24	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Mercury	192		running	127
13	22	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Oldsmobile	190		running	124
14	39	53	Slick Johnson	JD Johnson Racing	Chevrolet	189		running	121
15	26	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Buick	188		running	118
16	23	17	Don Whittington	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	187		running	115
17	28	74	Joe Booher	Wawak Racing	Buick	186		running	0
18	6	33	John Anderson	Russ Draime (Owner)	Oldsmobile	183		vibration	109
19	5	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Oldsmobile	183	24	running	111
20	29	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	176		running	103
21	19	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	176		running	100
22	13	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Oldsmobile	174		running	97
23	20	73	Bill Schmitt	Schmitt Racing	Oldsmobile	172		cylinder head	94
24	38	05	Bill Elswick	RahMoc Enterprises	Oldsmobile	161		engine	91
25	4	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Oldsmobile	157	4	clutch	93
26	37	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Oldsmobile	155		running	85
27	25	19	J.D. McDuffie	Gray Racing	Buick	150		piston	82
28	34	00	John A. Utsman	Wellrich Motorsports	Chevrolet	149		running	79
29	33	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Buick	134		engine	76
30	21	8	Kevin Housby	Housby Racing	Oldsmobile	80		engine	73
31	11	51	A.J. Foyt	A.J. Foyt Racing	Oldsmobile	69		vibration	70
32	42	40	Bill Whittington	Ulrich Racing	Buick	66		head gasket	67
33	35	50	Bruce Hill	Ballard Racing	Oldsmobile	57		engine	64
34	8	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	Oldsmobile	52		engine	61
35	15	68	Chuck Bown	Testa Racing	Oldsmobile	50		clutch	58
36	41	7	Dick Brooks	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Oldsmobile	44		broken axle	55
37	40	89	Jim Vandiver	Vandiver Racing	Oldsmobile	38		transmission	52
38	30	79	James Hurlbert	Warren Racing	Dodge	33		clutch	49
39	16	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	Buick	24		push rod	46
40	7	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Oldsmobile	20		engine	43
41	31	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	17		engine	40
42	10	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Oldsmobile	15		oil pressure	37

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Buddy Baker	143	71.5%	P1
2	Cale Yarborough	24	12.0%	P19
3	Dale Earnhardt	10	5.0%	P4
4	Bobby Allison	9	4.5%	P2
5	Neil Bonnett	8	4.0%	P3
6	Richard Petty	4	2.0%	P25
7	Donnie Allison	2	1.0%	P7

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