American 500

Rockingham Speedway — January 1, 1976

Richard Petty

Winner

492

Laps

Entries

Leaders

Richard Petty won the 1976 American 500 at Rockingham Speedway on January 1, 1976, leading 193 of 492 laps. Lennie Pond finished second; Darrell Waltrip rounded out the podium. The race featured 5 different leaders.

Race Details

Date

Thursday, January 1, 1976

Track

Rockingham Speedway

Season

1976

Winner

Richard Petty

Leaders

5 drivers

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Pos	Start	+/-	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Interval	Status	Led	Pts
1	4	+3	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	492	—	Running	193	185
2	11	+9	Lennie Pond	Elder-Ranier		491	—	Running	113	175
3	8	+5	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports		489	—	Running	—	165
4	7	+3	Bobby Allison	Penske Racing South	Mercury	489	—	Running	—	160
5	9	+4	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates		488	—	Running	—	155
6	1	-5	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	488	—	Running	31	155
7	5	-2	Donnie Allison	Ellington Racing		486	—	DNF	1	151
8	12	+4	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing		486	—	Running	—	142
9	15	+6	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises		478	—	Running	—	138
10	22	+12	Coo Coo Marlin	Cunningham-Kelley		474	—	Running	—	134
11	18	+7	Sonny Easley	Jerry Lankford (Owner)		469	—	Running	—	130
12	21	+9	Grant Adcox	Adcox-Kirby		468	—	Running	—	127
13	32	+19	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	464	—	Running	—	124
14	10	-4	D.K. Ulrich	J.R. DeLotto (Owner)		464	—	Running	—	121
15	23	+8	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing		461	—	Running	—	118
16	17	+1	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	460	—	Running	—	115
17	25	+8	Terry Bivins	Ballard Racing		459	—	Running	—	112
18	31	+13	Rick Newsom	Newsom Racing		456	—	Running	—	109
19	13	-6	Jackie Rogers	Viglione Racing		454	—	Running	—	106
20	24	+4	David Sisco	Sisco Racing		450	—	Running	—	103
21	29	+8	Jack Donohue	Dalton Racing		444	—	Running	—	100
22	27	+5	Frank Warren	Gray Racing		434	—	Running	—	97
23	28	+5	Jimmy Means	Means Racing		432	—	Running	—	94
24	26	+2	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing		423	—	Running	—	91
25	2	-23	Dave Marcis	K&K Insurance Racing	Dodge	413	—	DNF - Engine	154	93
26	36	+10	J.D. McDuffie	Handy Racing		389	—	DNF	—	85
27	16	-11	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing		363	—	DNF	—	82
28	3	-25	Buddy Baker	Bud Moore Engineering		299	—	DNF	—	79
29	20	-9	James Hylton	Faustina Racing	Dodge	171	—	DNF	—	76
30	35	+5	Dick May	Robertson Racing		127	—	DNF - Engine	—	73
31	6	-25	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing		117	—	DNF - Engine	—	70
32	33	+1	Travis Tiller	Morgan-McClure	Dodge	88	—	DNF	—	67
33	14	-19	Bobby Wawak	Gwinn-Wawak		76	—	DNF	—	64
34	30	-4	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)		5	—	DNF - Engine	—	61
35	34	-1	Bruce Hill	Hill Racing		2	—	DNF - Engine	—	58
36	19	-17	Henley Gray	GC Spencer Racing	Dodge	1	—	DNF	—	55