1980 American 500

Rockingham Speedway · 1980 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Cale Yarborough	2	36	18	2	12	167	492	500.4

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	2	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	492	167	running	185
2	12	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Chevrolet	492	68	running	175
3	3	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	490	93	running	170
4	18	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	487		running	160
5	14	90	Jody Ridley	Donlavey Racing	Ford	486		running	155
6	22	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	483	3	running	155
7	21	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	479	1	running	151
8	19	53	Slick Johnson	JD Johnson Racing	Chevrolet	478	4	running	147
9	25	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	474		running	138
10	28	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	Chevrolet	473		running	134
11	17	40	Stan Barrett	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	472		running	0
12	26	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	468		running	127
13	33	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	467		running	124
14	13	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	461	10	running	126
15	31	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Oldsmobile	460		running	118
16	36	19	Dick May	Gray Racing	Chevrolet	458		running	0
17	30	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	451		running	112
18	11	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Chevrolet	443	3	running	114
19	34	07	Jeff McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Buick	402		engine	106
20	20	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	299		engine	103
21	29	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Chevrolet	295		engine	100
22	1	12	Donnie Allison	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Chevrolet	291	111	clutch	102
23	8	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	Chevrolet	220		cylinder head	94
24	9	75	Joe Millikan	RahMoc Enterprises	Chevrolet	201		accident	0
25	4	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	201	28	accident	93
26	10	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	189		accident	85
27	7	28	Buddy Baker	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	178	1	engine	87
28	16	7	Lake Speed	Nelson Malloch (Owner)	Chevrolet	138		accident	79
29	5	68	Lennie Pond	Testa Racing	Chevrolet	121	3	accident	81
30	35	95	Ernie Cline	Cline Racing	Chevrolet	74		accident	0
31	15	41	Dick Brooks	Matthews Racing	Chevrolet	50		accident	0
32	6	77	John Anderson	John Rebhan (Owner)	Chevrolet	40		accident	67
33	27	79	Junior Miller	Junior Miller Racing	Chevrolet	19		overheating	64
34	32	84	Glenn Jarrett		Chevrolet	14		broken valve	0
35	23	42	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Chevrolet	10		engine	58
36	24	05	Bill Elswick		Oldsmobile	9		accident	55

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Cale Yarborough	167	33.9%	P1
2	Donnie Allison	111	22.6%	P22
3	Darrell Waltrip	93	18.9%	P3
4	Harry Gant	68	13.8%	P2
5	Neil Bonnett	28	5.7%	P25
6	Richard Petty	10	2.0%	P14
7	Slick Johnson	4	0.8%	P8
8	Dave Marcis	3	0.6%	P6
9	Dale Earnhardt	3	0.6%	P18
10	Lennie Pond	3	0.6%	P29
11	Richard Childress	1	0.2%	P7
12	Buddy Baker	1	0.2%	P27

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