1979

ATL

04 November - 04 November, 1979

Atlanta Motor Speedway

Championship

NASCAR Cup Series

round

30

Laps

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Race

N. Bonnett

Wood Brothers Racing

D. Earnhardt Sr.

Osterlund Racing

C. Yarborough

Junior Johnson & Associates

Event info

Classification

Standings

NASCAR Cup

1979

ATL

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NASCAR Cup Series 1979 Dixie 500 Classification

Results

Sessions:

Race

Race

Pos	№	Driver	Team	Laps	Time	Gap	Interval	KP/H	Best	Lap
1	21	Neil Bonnett	Wood Brothers Racing	328	3:33:46.000			225.501
2	2	Dale Earnhardt Sr.	Osterlund Racing	328
3	11	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates	328
4	15	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering	328
5	88	Darrell Waltrip		327		1 Lap	1 Lap
6	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	327		1 Lap
7	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Racing	325		3 Laps	2 Laps
8	90	Ricky Rudd	Donlavey Racing	324		4 Laps	1 Lap
9	72	Joe Millikan	DeWitt Racing	321		7 Laps	3 Laps
10	77	Jody Ridley	Donlavey Racing	320		8 Laps	1 Lap
11	47	Harry Gant	Race Hill Farm Team	320		8 Laps
12	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	319		9 Laps	1 Lap
13	51	Slick Johnson		317		11 Laps	2 Laps
14	12	Buck Simmons		315		13 Laps	2 Laps
15	3	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing	314		14 Laps	1 Lap
16	48	James Hylton	Hylton Motorsports	314		14 Laps
17	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Motorsports	314		14 Laps
18	00	Freddy Smith		313		15 Laps	1 Lap
19	52	Jimmy Means	Means Racing	312		16 Laps	1 Lap
20	36	H.B. Bailey		307		21 Laps	5 Laps
21	79	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	297		31 Laps	10 Laps
22	64	Tommy Gale	Langley Racing	270		58 Laps	27 Laps
23	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	266		62 Laps	4 Laps
24	08	John Anderson		256		72 Laps	10 Laps
25	40	D.K. Ulrich	Jasper Motorsports	245		83 Laps	11 Laps
26	55	Wayne Watercutter		243		85 Laps	2 Laps
27	41	Grant Adcox		236		92 Laps	7 Laps
28	25	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing	212		116 Laps	24 Laps
29	30	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing	211		117 Laps	1 Lap
30	98	Ralph Jones		202		126 Laps	9 Laps
31	27	Benny Parsons	M.C. Anderson Racing	193		135 Laps	9 Laps
32	42	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	176		152 Laps	17 Laps
33	81	David Sosebee		163		165 Laps	13 Laps
34	17	Steve Pfeifer	Hamby Racing	162		166 Laps	1 Lap
35	1	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing	158		170 Laps	4 Laps
36	31	John Rezek		117		211 Laps	41 Laps
37	18	Randy Ogden		111		217 Laps	6 Laps
38	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	103		225 Laps	8 Laps
39	28	Buddy Baker	Harry Ranier Motorsports	88		240 Laps	15 Laps
40	05	Dick Brooks		44		284 Laps	44 Laps
41	0	Dick May		4		324 Laps	40 Laps