Mason-Dixon 500

Dover International Speedway — January 1, 1978

David Pearson

Winner

500

Laps

Entries

Leaders

David Pearson won the 1978 Mason-Dixon 500 at Dover International Speedway on January 1, 1978, leading 148 of 500 laps. Cale Yarborough finished second; Lennie Pond rounded out the podium. The race featured 9 different leaders.

Race Details

Date

Sunday, January 1, 1978

Track

Dover International Speedway

Season

1978

Winner

David Pearson

Leaders

9 drivers

Sort by

Pos	Start	+/-	Driver	Team	Manufacturer	Laps	Interval	Status	Led	Pts
1	3	+2	David Pearson	Wood Brothers Racing	Mercury	500	—	Running	148	180
2	5	+3	Cale Yarborough	Junior Johnson & Associates		500	—	Running	1	175
3	4	+1	Lennie Pond	Ranier Racing		499	—	Running	4	170
4	2	-2	Benny Parsons	DeWitt Racing		498	—	Running	5	165
5	10	+5	Neil Bonnett	Jim Stacy Racing	Dodge	497	—	Running	26	160
6	7	+1	Darrell Waltrip	DiGard Motorsports		497	—	Running	290	160
7	15	+8	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Dodge	494	—	Running	—	146
8	9	+1	Bobby Allison	Bud Moore Engineering		493	—	Running	1	147
9	13	+4	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing		492	—	Running	—	138
10	14	+4	Al Holbert	Hylton Engineering		492	—	Running	—	134
11	19	+8	Tighe Scott	Ballard Racing		489	—	Running	—	130
12	16	+4	Skip Manning	Hagan Enterprises		486	—	Running	—	127
13	21	+8	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	485	—	Running	—	124
14	18	+4	Satch Worley	Race Hill Farm Team		481	—	Running	—	0
15	6	-9	Dave Marcis	Osterlund Motorsports		480	—	Running	1	123
16	17	+1	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing		477	—	Running	—	115
17	25	+8	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing		474	—	Running	—	112
18	23	+5	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing		470	—	Running	—	109
19	8	-11	Bruce Hill	Harry Clary (Owner)		456	—	DNF	—	106
20	22	+2	Earle Canavan	Canavan Racing	Dodge	448	—	Running	—	103
21	32	+11	Dick May	Gray Racing		438	—	Running	—	100
22	34	+12	Baxter Price	Price Racing		379	—	DNF - Engine	—	97
23	1	-22	Buddy Baker	M.C. Anderson Racing		363	—	DNF	24	99
24	36	+12	Nestor Peles	Steve Peles (Owner)		360	—	DNF	—	91
25	33	+8	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing		324	—	Running	—	88
26	27	+1	Gary Myers	Gary Myers (Owner)		308	—	DNF	—	85
27	31	+4	Frank Warren	Warren Racing	Dodge	302	—	DNF - Engine	—	82
28	35	+7	Bobby Wawak	Wawak Racing		261	—	DNF	—	79
29	39	+10	Greg Heller	Greg Heller (Owner)		250	—	DNF	—	0
30	29	-1	Joe Mihalic	Jim Norris (Owner)		215	—	DNF - Engine	—	0
31	20	-11	Roger Hamby	Hamby Racing		201	—	DNF	—	70
32	26	-6	Ronnie Thomas	Robertson Racing		75	—	DNF - Engine	—	67
33	11	-22	Richard Childress	Richard Childress Racing		64	—	DNF - Engine	—	64
34	12	-22	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing		35	—	DNF	—	61
35	30	-5	Ed Negre	Negre Racing	Dodge	15	—	DNF	—	58
36	37	+1	Bill Hollar	Hollar Racing		14	—	DNF	—	55
37	24	-13	Elmo Langley	Gray Racing		5	—	DNF - Engine	—	52
38	38	—	Nelson Oswald	Oswald Racing		5	—	DNF - Crash	—	49
39	40	+1	Wayne Morgan	Wayne Morgan (Owner)		3	—	DNF	—	46
40	28	-12	Dave Dion	Dion Racing		0	—	DNF - Engine	—	43