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1981 Virginia 500

Martinsville Speedway · 1981 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Morgan Shepherd	12	31	17	2	6	294	500	262.5

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	12	5	Morgan Shepherd	Cliff Stewart Racing	Pontiac	500	294	running	185
2	16	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	500	2	running	175
3	1	88	Ricky Rudd	DiGard Motorsports	Buick	499	24	running	170
4	2	12	Harry Gant	Kennie Childers (Owner)	Oldsmobile	497	113	running	165
5	9	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Buick	497		running	155
6	13	90	Jody Ridley	Donlavey Racing	Ford	494		running	150
7	26	66	Lake Speed	Lake Speed Racing	Oldsmobile	493		running	146
8	3	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	492		running	142
9	14	47	Ron Bouchard	Race Hill Farm Team	Pontiac	491		running	138
10	11	37	Mike Alexander	Rogers Racing	Oldsmobile	486		running	134
11	5	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	485		engine	130
12	28	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Pontiac	484		running	127
13	8	28	Bobby Allison	Ranier Racing	Pontiac	477		running	124
14	18	99	Tim Richmond	Ulrich Racing	Buick	476		running	121
15	22	42	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Buick	469		engine	118
16	23	64	Joe Fields	Fields Racing	Buick	469		running	115
17	20	48	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering	Pontiac	461		running	112
18	24	40	Tommy Gale	Ulrich Racing	Buick	422		running	109
19	29	94	Bobby Wawak	Wawak Racing	Buick	398		running	106
20	25	17	Tommy Houston	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	324		rear end	0
21	21	27	Cale Yarborough	M.C. Anderson Racing	Buick	317	48	engine	105
22	27	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	Pontiac	271		head gasket	97
23	17	15	Benny Parsons	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	198		engine	94
24	31	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Buick	198		transmission	91
25	10	2	Dale Earnhardt	Osterlund Motorsports	Pontiac	155		engine	88
26	6	11	Darrell Waltrip	Junior Johnson & Associates	Buick	150		engine	85
27	4	26	Butch Lindley	Lindley Racing	Chevrolet	87	19	brakes	87
28	15	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Buick	40		accident	79
29	7	75	Joe Millikan	RahMoc Enterprises	Buick	40		accident	76
30	30	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Pontiac	17		engine	73
31	19	25	Ronnie Thomas	Ronnie Thomas Racing	Pontiac	3		accident	70

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Morgan Shepherd	294	58.8%	P1
2	Harry Gant	113	22.6%	P4
3	Cale Yarborough	48	9.6%	P21
4	Ricky Rudd	24	4.8%	P3
5	Butch Lindley	19	3.8%	P27
6	Neil Bonnett	2	0.4%	P2

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