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  1.   SK posted:
  12.15.2007 - 11:50 pm
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Harry Gant leads a Winston Cup race for the first time in his career.
Though running up front for half the laps one completes is generally a
good thing, Gant's 45 laps led translate in this case to 90 laps run
before the engine expired, relegating him to a 28th place finish.


  2.   KurtBusch22Fan posted:
  05.15.2011 - 1:40 pm
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The 1978 Old Dominion 500 is a NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup
Series) race that took place on September 24, 1978 at Martinsville
Speedway in the American community of Martinsville, Virginia.

Five hundred laps were done on a paved oval track spanning 0.525 miles
(0.845 km) for a grand total of 262.5 miles (422.5 km). The complete
time of the race was three hours, nineteen minutes, and fifty-four
seconds. There were four cautions given out by the NASCAR officials for
nineteen laps. Cale Yarborough defeated Darrell Waltrip by three car
lengths. Notable speeds recorded in both the qualifying session and the
race were: 79.185 miles per hour (127.436 km/h) as the average speed and
86.558 miles per hour (139.302 km/h) as the pole position speed. Twenty
thousand people attended this live race.

Harry Gant would led a NASCAR Cup Series race for the first time in his
career. However, he would only run ninety laps before having to leave
the race due to an engine problem. This would cause him to be relegated
to a 28th place finish and only $1,070 in prize winnings ($3,602.08 in
today's money). Total winnings for this race were $101,430 ($341,456.78
in today's money) and Cale Yarborough took the lion's share of $24,950
($83,992.37 in today's money).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1978_Old_Dominion_500


  3.   Kevin Nauta posted:
  12.22.2012 - 12:16 pm
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http://stockcar.racersreunion.com/photo/old-dominion-500-martinsville-speedway-september-24-1978-14?context=latest

Photo taken at the event has Dick May in a Buick rather than a Chevrolet.


  4.   KW posted:
  03.11.2016 - 11:05 am
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The Autumn 150 was run the day before this race for the Modified Div.
The winner was Satch Worley followed by Jerry Cook, Paul Radford, Harry
Gant, and Brian Ross. Richie Evans was 8th.


  5.   RaceFanX posted:
  12.08.2017 - 1:29 pm
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Rookie Terry Labonte's third career start nets him his third career
top-10 finish.


  6.   RaceFanX posted:
  03.24.2018 - 1:10 pm
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Cale Yarborough scores his sixth and final Cup victory at Martinsville.
He was on a tear here in the second half of the 1970s, this win marked
his fourth win over the course of the prior five Martinsville races.


  7.   rateus posted:
  02.13.2021 - 8:27 pm
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Elmo Langley qualified for Tommy Gale and Junior Miller qualified for
Ferrel Harris.


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