1981 Southern 500

Darlington Raceway · 1981 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Neil Bonnett	3	40	27	5	9	216	367	501.3

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	3	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	367	216	running	185
2	11	11	Darrell Waltrip	Junior Johnson & Associates	Buick	367	2	running	175
3	4	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Buick	367	9	running	170
4	6	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Buick	367	3	running	165
5	9	1	Buddy Baker	Ellington Racing	Buick	367	3	running	160
6	10	3	Dale Earnhardt	Richard Childress Racing	Pontiac	366		running	150
7	14	9	Bill Elliott	George Elliott Racing	Ford	366		running	146
8	13	01	David Pearson	Ellington Racing	Buick	365		running	0
9	17	28	Bobby Allison	Ranier Racing	Chevrolet	365	1	running	143
10	2	27	Cale Yarborough	M.C. Anderson Racing	Buick	363	24	running	139
11	5	47	Ron Bouchard	Race Hill Farm Team	Buick	363		running	130
12	23	90	Jody Ridley	Donlavey Racing	Ford	362		running	127
13	22	66	Lake Speed	Lake Speed Racing	Buick	362		running	124
14	1	33	Harry Gant	Mach 1 Racing	Pontiac	360	78	running	126
15	16	2	Joe Ruttman	Jim Stacy Racing	Pontiac	358		running	118
16	12	24	Morgan Shepherd	Gordon Racing	Buick	358		running	115
17	21	68	Lennie Pond	Lennie Pond (Owner)	Buick	356		running	112
18	19	5	Joe Millikan	Cliff Stewart Racing	Pontiac	353		running	109
19	33	8	Dick May	Negre Racing	Dodge	353		running	106
20	29	37	Mike Alexander	Rogers Racing	Oldsmobile	352		running	103
21	34	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Pontiac	351		running	100
22	27	12	Tim Richmond	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Buick	349		running	97
23	7	88	Ricky Rudd	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	343		accident	94
24	40	94	Bobby Wawak	Wawak Racing	Buick	334		running	91
25	20	75	Gary Balough	RahMoc Enterprises	Buick	333		engine	88
26	38	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Pontiac	331		running	85
27	37	25	Ronnie Thomas	Ronnie Thomas Racing	Pontiac	311		running	82
28	36	17	Mike Potter	Hamby Racing	Buick	309		running	79
29	30	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	294		running	76
30	8	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Buick	278	31	engine	78
31	26	99	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Buick	269		engine	70
32	32	13	Jack Ingram	Bobby Hawkins (Owner)	Ford	253		engine	67
33	25	98	Johnny Rutherford	Benfield Racing	Pontiac	190		water pump	0
34	18	42	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Buick	130		engine	61
35	24	40	Slick Johnson	Ulrich Racing	Buick	110		engine	0
36	39	36	H.B. Bailey	Bailey Racing	Pontiac	93		accident	55
37	28	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	85		wheel lugs	52
38	35	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Pontiac	64		engine	49
39	15	15	Benny Parsons	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	62		broken valve	46
40	31	4	Connie Saylor	GC Spencer Racing	Oldsmobile	6		engine	43

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Neil Bonnett	216	58.9%	P1
2	Harry Gant	78	21.3%	P14
3	Richard Petty	31	8.4%	P30
4	Cale Yarborough	24	6.5%	P10
5	Dave Marcis	9	2.5%	P3
6	Terry Labonte	3	0.8%	P4
7	Buddy Baker	3	0.8%	P5
8	Darrell Waltrip	2	0.5%	P2
9	Bobby Allison	1	0.3%	P9

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