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1981 Richmond 400

Richmond Raceway · 1981 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Darrell Waltrip	7	30	22	2	4	204	400	216.8

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	7	11	Darrell Waltrip	Junior Johnson & Associates	Buick	400	204	running	185
2	8	88	Ricky Rudd	DiGard Motorsports	Oldsmobile	400	7	running	175
3	3	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Buick	399	39	running	170
4	1	5	Morgan Shepherd	Cliff Stewart Racing	Pontiac	399	150	running	165
5	4	15	Benny Parsons	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	399		running	155
6	2	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	Buick	399		running	150
7	6	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Pontiac	397		running	146
8	25	90	Jody Ridley	Donlavey Racing	Ford	397		running	142
9	14	75	Joe Millikan	RahMoc Enterprises	Buick	396		running	138
10	10	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Pontiac	395		running	134
11	12	68	Lennie Pond	Testa Racing	Buick	395		running	130
12	26	66	Lake Speed	Lake Speed Racing	Oldsmobile	392		running	127
13	18	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Pontiac	391		running	124
14	20	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Pontiac	390		running	121
15	11	37	Don Sprouse	Rogers Racing	Oldsmobile	389		running	118
16	19	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	385		running	115
17	27	99	Tim Richmond	Ulrich Racing	Buick	382		running	112
18	23	79	Tommy Gale	Junior Miller Racing	Oldsmobile	381		running	109
19	24	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Buick	380		running	106
20	30	94	Henry Jones	Wawak Racing	Buick	363		running	103
21	13	25	Ronnie Thomas	Ronnie Thomas Racing	Pontiac	358		running	100
22	16	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Dodge	321		drive shaft	97
23	5	28	Bobby Allison	Lindley Racing	Chevrolet	276		rear end	94
24	17	42	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Buick	223		rear end	91
25	22	17	Glenn Jarrett	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	216		transmission	88
26	9	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Buick	204		clutch	85
27	29	20	Rick Newsom	Newsom Racing	Chevrolet	169		rear end	82
28	21	92	Joe Fields	Fields Racing	Pontiac	118		running	0
29	15	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Pontiac	47		distributor	76
30	28	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	Buick	16		drive shaft	73

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	204	51.0%	P1
2	Morgan Shepherd	150	37.5%	P4
3	Richard Petty	39	9.8%	P3
4	Ricky Rudd	7	1.8%	P2

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