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The 1978 Southern 500, the 29th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on September 4, 1978, at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore. Only manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day. ==Summary== There were forty American-born competitors who competed in this 367-lap race.〔 A crowd of 65000 racing fans would cheer them on for four hours and seventeen minutes.〔 NASCAR officials would signal nine cautions for an outstanding 72 laps; 21 changes for the first-place position were made. There were moments when the race leader remained unchanged for a long period of time; including Cale Yarborough's 69-lap lead which lasted from lap 118 to lap 186 and his late-race streak where he would take over the lead on lap 261 and would never relinquish it for the remainder of the event.〔〔 Cale Yarborough would defeat future NASCAR on Fox personality Darrell Waltrip by three seconds while Richard Petty, rookie driver Terry Labonte, and Bobby Allison would round out the top five finishers.〔〔 Yarborough's win would become the fourth ever at the Southern 500.〔(''1978 SOUTHERN 500 - Yarborough makes it four'' ) at YouTube〕 He would also retain the lead in championship points right after this race.〔 Bruce Hill would finish in last place on lap 80 due to a problem with his vehicle's rear end.〔〔 David Pearson would get the pole position with a top speed of .〔〔 D. K. Ulrich would bring nitrous oxide into his racing vehicle and lost the rest of the 1978 Winston Cup Series season. Neil Bonnett had the most unfortunate incident by hitting the telephone wires while exiting pit road; nobody was injured. The total prize purse of the race was $200,170 ($ when considering inflation); Yarborough received $30,175 of it for winning the race in first-place ($ when considering inflation).〔(''1978 Southern 500'' ) racing information at Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet. Accessed 2012-03-05. (Archived ) 2012-03-07.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1978 Southern 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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