1989 Atlanta Journal 500

Atlanta Motor Speedway · 1989 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Dale Earnhardt	3	42	26	4	8	249	328	499.2

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	3	3	Dale Earnhardt	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	328	249	running	185
2	7	5	Geoff Bodine	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	328		running	170
3	6	94	Sterling Marlin	Hagan Enterprises	Oldsmobile	328	5	running	170
4	2	25	Ken Schrader	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	328	38	running	165
5	8	17	Darrell Waltrip	Hendrick Motorsports	Chevrolet	327	1	running	160
6	16	42	Kyle Petty	SABCO Racing	Pontiac	326		running	150
7	29	8	Bobby Hillin Jr.	Stavola Brothers Racing	Buick	326		running	146
8	24	75	Morgan Shepherd	RahMoc Enterprises	Pontiac	326		running	142
9	26	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	326		running	138
10	22	83	Lake Speed	Lake Speed Racing	Oldsmobile	326		running	134
11	23	2	Ernie Irvan	U. S. Motorsports Inc.	Pontiac	325		running	130
12	10	10	Derrike Cope	Whitcomb Racing	Pontiac	325		running	127
13	1	7	Alan Kulwicki	Alan Kulwicki Racing	Ford	325		running	124
14	33	26	Ricky Rudd	King Racing	Buick	325	1	running	126
15	4	27	Rusty Wallace	Blue Max Racing	Pontiac	325		running	118
16	37	29	Dale Jarrett	Cale Yarborough Motorsports	Pontiac	324		running	115
17	21	33	Harry Gant	Jackson Bros. Motorsports	Oldsmobile	324		running	112
18	28	4	Rick Wilson	Morgan-McClure Motorsports	Oldsmobile	324		running	109
19	34	16	Larry Pearson	Pearson Racing	Buick	323		running	106
20	11	57	Hut Stricklin	Osterlund Motorsports	Pontiac	322		running	103
21	36	44	Jim Sauter	Bob Tullius (Owner)	Pontiac	321		running	100
22	40	02	Rich Bickle	Bickle Racing	Buick	319		running	97
23	14	15	Brett Bodine	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	310		running	94
24	39	47	Jack Pennington	Close Racing	Oldsmobile	303		running	91
25	18	28	Davey Allison	Robert Yates Racing	Ford	293	3	running	93
26	30	30	Michael Waltrip	Bahari' Racing	Pontiac	279		engine	85
27	13	9	Bill Elliott	Melling Racing	Ford	278		running	82
28	35	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Pontiac	268		broken a-frame	79
29	12	48	Greg Sacks	Winkle Motorsports	Pontiac	257		engine	76
30	20	6	Mark Martin	Roush Racing	Ford	224		engine	73
31	17	66	Rick Mast	Mach 1 Racing	Chevrolet	213		engine	70
32	38	22	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby	Oldsmobile	198		accident	67
33	42	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	181		broken valve	64
34	15	20	Rob Moroso	Moroso Racing	Oldsmobile	169		accident	61
35	9	84	Dick Trickle	Stavola Brothers Racing	Buick	138	29	engine	63
36	31	14	A.J. Foyt	A.J. Foyt Racing	Oldsmobile	94	2	engine	60
37	19	88	Jimmy Spencer	Baker-Schiff Racing	Pontiac	66		accident	52
38	25	01	Mickey Gibbs	Don Gibbs Racing	Ford	35		brakes	49
39	27	77	Ken Ragan	Branch-Ragan Racing	Ford	35		brakes	46
40	5	11	Terry Labonte	Junior Johnson & Associates	Ford	29		engine	43
41	32	89	Rodney Combs	Mueller Brothers Racing	Pontiac	10		oil line	40
42	41	55	Phil Parsons	Jackson Bros. Motorsports	Oldsmobile	8		engine	37

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Dale Earnhardt	249	75.9%	P1
2	Ken Schrader	38	11.6%	P4
3	Dick Trickle	29	8.8%	P35
4	Sterling Marlin	5	1.5%	P3
5	Davey Allison	3	0.9%	P25
6	A.J. Foyt	2	0.6%	P36
7	Darrell Waltrip	1	0.3%	P5
8	Ricky Rudd	1	0.3%	P14

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