1980 National 500

Charlotte Motor Speedway · 1980 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Dale Earnhardt	4	41	24	4	11	148	334	501

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	4	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	334	148	running	185
2	3	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	334	47	running	175
3	1	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Buick	334	48	running	170
4	2	22	Ricky Rudd	Al Rudd Auto	Chevrolet	334	1	running	165
5	11	12	Donnie Allison	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Chevrolet	333		running	155
6	16	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Mercury	332		running	150
7	23	7	Lake Speed	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Chevrolet	330		running	146
8	22	90	Jody Ridley	Donlavey Racing	Mercury	329		running	142
9	36	42	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	328		running	138
10	39	41	Dick Brooks	Matthews Racing	Chevrolet	328		running	134
11	27	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	328	1	running	135
12	21	40	Tim Richmond	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	327		running	127
13	34	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	326		running	124
14	25	16	Rusty Wallace	Penske Racing South	Chevrolet	325		running	121
15	37	77	Kenny Hemphill	John Rebhan (Owner)	Chevrolet	325		running	118
16	6	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Chevrolet	324		running	115
17	15	82	Dick May	Harris Racing	Dodge	323		running	112
18	5	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	322	29	engine	114
19	24	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Oldsmobile	318		running	106
20	41	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	318		running	103
21	32	19	James Hylton	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	312		running	100
22	20	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	307		running	97
23	38	4	Connie Saylor	GC Spencer Racing	Chevrolet	301		running	94
24	33	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	292		running	91
25	14	02	Chuck Bown	Halpern Enterprises	Chevrolet	271		engine	88
26	29	79	Junior Miller	Junior Miller Racing	Chevrolet	259		running	85
27	19	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	252	1	engine	87
28	35	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	195		broken valve	79
29	7	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Mercury	190	35	ball joint	81
30	8	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	183	10	accident	78
31	10	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	183	11	accident	75
32	30	6	Marty Robbins	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	171		accident	67
33	9	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	168	3	accident	69
34	26	68	Lennie Pond	Testa Racing	Chevrolet	168		steering	61
35	18	75	John Anderson	RahMoc Enterprises	Chevrolet	149		steering	58
36	28	14	Sterling Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	Chevrolet	138		accident	0
37	12	62	Rick Wilson	Wilson Racing	Chevrolet	67		engine	52
38	17	1	David Pearson	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	66		ignition	49
39	13	96	Mike Miller	Mike Miller (Owner)	Ford	53		head gasket	46
40	40	53	Slick Johnson	JD Johnson Racing	Chevrolet	42		camshaft	43
41	31	05	Jim Sauter	RahMoc Enterprises	Chevrolet	33		engine	40

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Dale Earnhardt	148	44.3%	P1
2	Buddy Baker	48	14.4%	P3
3	Cale Yarborough	47	14.1%	P2
4	Bobby Allison	35	10.5%	P29
5	Darrell Waltrip	29	8.7%	P18
6	Terry Labonte	11	3.3%	P31
7	Neil Bonnett	10	3.0%	P30
8	Benny Parsons	3	0.9%	P33
9	Ricky Rudd	1	0.3%	P4
10	Richard Childress	1	0.3%	P11
11	Richard Petty	1	0.3%	P27

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