1981 CRC Chemicals 500

Dover International Speedway · 1981 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Neil Bonnett	3	34	23	1	9	185	500	500

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	3	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	500	185	running	185
2	2	11	Darrell Waltrip	Junior Johnson & Associates	Buick	499	1	running	175
3	9	28	Bobby Allison	Ranier Racing	Buick	499	74	running	170
4	17	47	Ron Bouchard	Race Hill Farm Team	Buick	495		running	160
5	1	88	Ricky Rudd	DiGard Motorsports	Chevrolet	495	55	running	160
6	5	2	Joe Ruttman	Jim Stacy Racing	Pontiac	495	1	running	155
7	7	42	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Buick	495		running	146
8	12	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	495	1	running	147
9	15	37	Tim Richmond	Rogers Racing	Buick	494		running	138
10	11	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Buick	494	2	running	139
11	16	90	Jody Ridley	Donlavey Racing	Ford	493		running	130
12	18	24	Morgan Shepherd	Gordon Racing	Buick	492		running	127
13	6	27	Cale Yarborough	M.C. Anderson Racing	Buick	492		running	124
14	19	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	490		running	121
15	22	3	Dale Earnhardt	Richard Childress Racing	Pontiac	490		running	118
16	21	68	Lennie Pond	Lennie Pond (Owner)	Buick	490		running	115
17	4	75	Gary Balough	RahMoc Enterprises	Buick	487		running	112
18	25	99	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Buick	482		running	109
19	20	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Pontiac	481		running	106
20	27	25	Ronnie Thomas	Ronnie Thomas Racing	Pontiac	479		running	103
21	13	5	Joe Millikan	Cliff Stewart Racing	Pontiac	474		running	100
22	29	17	Lowell Cowell	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	468		running	97
23	14	33	Harry Gant	Mach 1 Racing	Pontiac	437	178	engine	99
24	23	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	404		running	91
25	32	40	Dick May	Ulrich Racing	Buick	311		alternator	88
26	30	20	Cecil Gordon	Newsom Racing	Chevrolet	296		rear end	85
27	24	66	Lake Speed	Lake Speed Racing	Buick	288		engine	82
28	26	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Pontiac	256		engine	79
29	10	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Buick	230	3	accident	81
30	31	97	Bob Schacht	Bob Schacht Motorsports	Oldsmobile	219		cylinder	73
31	34	63	Jocko Maggiacomo	Jockos Racing	Oldsmobile	189		push rod	70
32	33	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Pontiac	123		engine	67
33	28	60	Bob Riley	Joe May (Owner)	Pontiac	49		engine	64
34	8	15	Benny Parsons	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	31		overheating	61

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Neil Bonnett	185	37.0%	P1
2	Harry Gant	178	35.6%	P23
3	Bobby Allison	74	14.8%	P3
4	Ricky Rudd	55	11.0%	P5
5	Terry Labonte	3	0.6%	P29
6	Richard Petty	2	0.4%	P10
7	Darrell Waltrip	1	0.2%	P2
8	Joe Ruttman	1	0.2%	P6
9	Dave Marcis	1	0.2%	P8

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1981 CRC Chemicals 500

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