1979

DAR

03 September - 03 September, 1979

Darlington Raceway

Championship

NASCAR Cup Series

round

23

Laps

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Latest results

Race

D. Pearson

Osterlund Racing

B. Elliott

T. Labonte

Hagan Racing

Event info

Classification

Standings

NASCAR Cup

1979

DAR

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NASCAR Cup Series 1979 Southern 500 Classification

Results

Sessions:

Race

Race

Pos	№	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	KP/H	Best	Lap
1	2	David Pearson	Osterlund Racing	367	3:58:14.000			203.195
2	17	Bill Elliott		365		2 Laps	2 Laps
3	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Racing	365		2 Laps
4	28	Buddy Baker	Harry Ranier Motorsports	365		2 Laps
5	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	364		3 Laps	1 Lap
6	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	362		5 Laps	2 Laps
7	05	Dick Brooks		361		6 Laps	1 Lap
8	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	361		6 Laps
9	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	361		6 Laps
10	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	356		11 Laps	5 Laps
11	88	Darrell Waltrip		355		12 Laps	1 Lap
12	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	352		15 Laps	3 Laps
13	40	D.K. Ulrich	Jasper Motorsports	350		17 Laps	2 Laps
14	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Motorsports	347		20 Laps	3 Laps
15	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	347		20 Laps
16	52	Jimmy Means	Means Racing	345		22 Laps	2 Laps
17	68	Chuck Bown		342		25 Laps	3 Laps
18	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	341		26 Laps	1 Lap
19	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	336		31 Laps	5 Laps
20	8	Ed Negre		333		34 Laps	3 Laps
21	64	Tommy Gale	Langley Racing	332		35 Laps	1 Lap
22	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	331		36 Laps	1 Lap
23	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	324		43 Laps	7 Laps
24	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	310		57 Laps	14 Laps
25	19	Lennie Pond		281		86 Laps	29 Laps
26	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	246		121 Laps	35 Laps
27	36	H.B. Bailey		244		123 Laps	2 Laps
28	9	Jim Vandiver	Hamby Racing	240		127 Laps	4 Laps
29	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	224		143 Laps	16 Laps
30	12	Jack Ingram		206		161 Laps	18 Laps
31	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	195		172 Laps	11 Laps
32	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	185		182 Laps	10 Laps
33	10	Billy Smith		179		188 Laps	6 Laps
34	65	Dick May		148		219 Laps	31 Laps
35	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	133		234 Laps	15 Laps
36	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	112		255 Laps	21 Laps
37	98	Ralph Jones		83		284 Laps	29 Laps
38	48	James Hylton	Hylton Motorsports	46		321 Laps	37 Laps
39	01	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	17		350 Laps	29 Laps
40	96	Ferrel Harris		2		365 Laps	15 Laps