Motorcraft 500

Atlanta Motor Speedway — January 1, 1987

Ricky Rudd

Winner

328

Laps

Entries

Leaders

Ricky Rudd won the 1987 Motorcraft 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on January 1, 1987, leading 7 of 328 laps. Benny Parsons finished second; Rusty Wallace rounded out the podium. The race featured 10 different leaders.

Race Details

Date

Thursday, January 1, 1987

Track

Atlanta Motor Speedway

Season

1987

Winner

Ricky Rudd

Leaders

10 drivers

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Pos	Start	+/-	Driver	Team	Laps	Interval	Status	Led	Pts
1	6	+5	Ricky Rudd	Bud Moore Engineering	328	—	Running	7	180
2	10	+8	Benny Parsons	Hendrick Motorsports	328	—	Running	43	175
3	7	+4	Rusty Wallace	Blue Max Racing	328	—	Running	26	170
4	9	+5	Terry Labonte	Junior Johnson & Associates	328	—	Running	2	165
5	8	+3	Davey Allison	Ranier-Lundy Racing	327	—	Running	—	155
6	21	+15	Darrell Waltrip	Hendrick Motorsports	327	—	Running	—	150
7	26	+19	Neil Bonnett	RahMoc Enterprises	327	—	Running	—	146
8	3	-5	Cale Yarborough	Cale Yarborough Motorsports	327	—	Running	7	147
9	25	+16	Kyle Petty	Wood Brothers Racing	327	—	Running	—	138
10	29	+19	Morgan Shepherd	King Racing	326	—	Running	—	134
11	27	+16	Rick Wilson	Morgan-McClure Motorsports	326	—	Running	—	130
12	32	+20	Ron Bouchard	Ellington Racing	325	—	Running	—	127
13	22	+9	Sterling Marlin	Hagan Enterprises	325	—	Running	—	124
14	17	+3	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	325	—	Running	1	126
15	14	-1	Geoffrey Bodine	Hendrick Motorsports	323	—	Running	—	118
16	1	-15	Dale Earnhardt	Richard Childress Racing	322	—	Running	196	125
17	30	+13	Tommy Ellis	Freelander Motorsports	322	—	Running	—	112
18	34	+16	H.B. Bailey	Bailey Racing	321	—	Running	—	109
19	15	-4	Bobby Allison	Stavola Brothers Racing	320	—	Running	2	111
20	24	+4	A.J. Foyt	A.J. Foyt Racing	319	—	Running	—	103
21	31	+10	David Sosebee	Hamby Racing	317	—	Running	—	100
22	35	+13	Steve Christman	Winkle Motorsports	314	—	Running	—	97
23	28	+5	D.K. Ulrich	U. S. Motorsports Inc.	303	—	DNF	—	94
24	13	-11	Bobby Hillin Jr.	Stavola Brothers Racing	302	—	Running	—	91
25	40	+15	Mike Potter	Salmon Racing	291	—	Running	—	88
26	18	-8	Ken Ragan	Branch-Ragan Racing	281	—	DNF	—	85
27	19	-8	Phil Parsons	Jackson Bros. Motorsports	261	—	DNF - Engine	—	82
28	2	-26	Bill Elliott	Melling Racing	255	—	DNF - Engine	22	84
29	4	-25	Ken Schrader	Donlavey Racing	220	—	DNF - Engine	22	81
30	39	+9	Mark Stahl	Stahl Racing	208	—	Running	—	73
31	36	+5	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	169	—	DNF	—	70
32	33	+1	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	157	—	DNF - Crash	—	67
33	23	-10	Alan Kulwicki	Alan Kulwicki Racing	86	—	DNF - Crash	—	64
34	11	-23	Harry Gant	Mach 1 Racing	86	—	DNF - Crash	—	61
35	12	-23	Lake Speed	Lake Speed Racing	73	—	DNF	—	58
36	37	+1	Derrike Cope	Stoke Racing	61	—	DNF - Crash	—	55
37	20	-17	Greg Sacks	Dingman Brothers Racing	53	—	DNF - Engine	—	52
38	5	-33	Buddy Baker	Baker-Schiff Racing	36	—	DNF - Engine	—	49
39	16	-23	Michael Waltrip	Bahari' Racing	33	—	DNF	—	46
40	41	+1	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	16	—	DNF - Engine	—	43
41	38	-3	Connie Saylor	Langley-Woodfield Racing	3	—	DNF - Engine	—	40