Los Angeles Times 500

Ontario Motor Speedway — January 1, 1976

David Pearson

Winner

200

Laps

Entries

Leaders

David Pearson won the 1976 Los Angeles Times 500 at Ontario Motor Speedway on January 1, 1976, leading 121 of 200 laps. Lennie Pond finished second; Benny Parsons rounded out the podium. The race featured 3 different leaders.

Race Details

Date

Thursday, January 1, 1976

Track

Ontario Motor Speedway

Season

1976

Winner

David Pearson

Leaders

3 drivers

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Pos	Start	+/-	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Interval	Status	Led	Pts
1	1	—	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	200	—	Running	121	185
2	11	+9	Lennie Pond	Elder-Ranier		199	—	Running	—	170
3	9	+6	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing		198	—	Running	—	165
4	12	+8	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing		198	—	Running	—	160
5	17	+12	James Hylton	Hylton Engineering		196	—	Running	—	155
6	27	+21	Bobby Wawak	Gwinn-Wawak		196	—	Running	—	150
7	15	+8	Terry Bivins	Michael Brockman (Owner)		194	—	Running	—	146
8	26	+18	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises		192	—	Running	—	142
9	14	+5	Terry Ryan	WAM Racing		192	—	Running	—	138
10	21	+11	Bruce Hill	Hill Racing		192	—	Running	—	134
11	30	+19	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing		191	—	Running	—	130
12	20	+8	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	190	—	Running	—	127
13	24	+11	Larry Phillips	Jerry Lankford (Owner)		188	—	Running	—	0
14	10	-4	Sonny Easley	Jerry Lankford (Owner)		188	—	Running	—	121
15	40	+25	Don Puskarich	Puskarich Racing		187	—	Running	—	118
16	18	+2	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing		187	—	Running	—	115
17	32	+15	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing		182	—	Running	—	112
18	31	+13	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	181	—	Running	—	109
19	13	-6	Chuck Bown	Gerald Craker (Owner)		178	—	DNF - Engine	—	106
20	23	+3	Janet Guthrie	Lynda Ferreri (Owner)		177	—	DNF	—	0
21	19	-2	Jimmy Insolo	Roger Paquette (Owner)		171	—	DNF	—	0
22	28	+6	Mike Hiss			169	—	Running	—	0
23	3	-20	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates		168	—	DNF	68	99
24	2	-22	Dave Marcis	K&K Insurance Racing	Dodge	153	—	DNF - Engine	—	91
25	16	-9	D.K. Ulrich	J.R. DeLotto (Owner)		147	—	DNF - Engine	—	88
26	36	+10	Bill Schmitt	Schmitt Racing		141	—	DNF	—	85
27	7	-20	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	127	—	DNF - Engine	11	87
28	35	+7	Glenn Francis	Trent Francis (Owner)		125	—	DNF	—	79
29	29	—	Jim Thirkettle			124	—	DNF	—	76
30	37	+7	David Sisco	Sisco Racing		118	—	DNF - Engine	—	73
31	39	+8	Carl Joiner	Marquardt Racing		111	—	DNF - Crash	—	70
32	33	+1	Hershel McGriff	McGriff Motorsports		108	—	DNF - Engine	—	0
33	5	-28	Bobby Allison	Penske Racing South	Mercury	102	—	DNF - Engine	—	64
34	8	-26	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing		102	—	DNF	—	61
35	38	+3	John Kieper	John Kieper (Owner)		62	—	DNF - Engine	—	58
36	22	-14	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing		54	—	DNF	—	55
37	34	-3	Dick May	Gray Racing		48	—	DNF	—	52
38	25	-13	Roy Smith	Dick Midgley Motorsports		23	—	DNF	—	49
39	4	-35	Buddy Baker	Bud Moore Engineering		12	—	DNF	—	46
40	6	-34	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports		10	—	DNF	—	43