1979

ATL

18 March - 18 March, 1979

Atlanta Motor Speedway

Championship

NASCAR Cup Series

round

5

Laps

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Latest results

Race

B. Baker

Harry Ranier Motorsports

B. Allison

Bud Moore Engineering

D. Waltrip

DiGard Racing

Event info

Classification

Standings

NASCAR Cup

1979

ATL

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NASCAR Cup Series 1979 Atlanta 500 Classification

Results

Sessions:

Race

Race

Pos	№	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	KP/H	Best	Lap
1	28	Buddy Baker	Harry Ranier Motorsports	328	3:41:47.000			217.35
2	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	328	3:42:05.000	+ 18.000	+ 18.000	217.056
3	88	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Racing	328
4	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	327		1 Lap	1 Lap
5	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	327		1 Lap
6	02	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	327		1 Lap
7	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	326		2 Laps	1 Lap
8	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	326		2 Laps
9	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	325		3 Laps	1 Lap
10	5	Dick Brooks		325		3 Laps
11	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	324		4 Laps	1 Lap
12	2	Dale Earnhardt Sr.	Osterlund Racing	321		7 Laps	3 Laps
13	48	James Hylton	Hylton Motorsports	321		7 Laps
14	40	D.K. Ulrich	Jasper Motorsports	321		7 Laps
15	50	Bruce Hill		321		7 Laps
16	68	Chuck Bown		315		13 Laps	6 Laps
17	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	314		14 Laps	1 Lap
18	21	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	299		29 Laps	15 Laps
19	45	Baxter Price	Price Racing	295		33 Laps	4 Laps
20	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	295		33 Laps
21	64	Tommy Gale	Langley Racing	282		46 Laps	13 Laps
22	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	273		55 Laps	9 Laps
23	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	249		79 Laps	24 Laps
24	19	Dick May		221		107 Laps	28 Laps
25	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Racing	211		117 Laps	10 Laps
26	17	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing	172		156 Laps	39 Laps
27	6	Claude Ballot-Léna		168		160 Laps	4 Laps
28	41	Grant Adcox		133		195 Laps	35 Laps
29	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Motorsports	129		199 Laps	4 Laps
30	39	Blackie Wangerin		126		202 Laps	3 Laps
31	98	Ralph Jones		126		202 Laps
32	37	Dave Watson		123		205 Laps	3 Laps
33	52	Jimmy Means	Means Racing	82		246 Laps	41 Laps
34	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	71		257 Laps	11 Laps
35	47	Geoff Bodine	Race Hill Farm Team	66		262 Laps	5 Laps
36	9	Bill Elliott		61		267 Laps	5 Laps
37	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	54		274 Laps	7 Laps
38	14	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley	53		275 Laps	1 Lap
39	0	John Kennedy		50		278 Laps	3 Laps
40	53	Keith Davis		15		313 Laps	35 Laps