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The ''1979 Coca-Cola 500'' was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on July 30, 1979, at Pocono International Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. By the following season, 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== While originally scheduled for July 29, 1979, it was postponed one day due to rain. Two hundred laps were completed in four hours and twenty minutes.〔 Seven cautions flags were given out by NASCAR for 49 laps; Cale Yarborough eventually defeated Richard Petty under the race's final yellow flag.〔 This would result in Yarborough's third win of the year.〔 Forty thousand fans attended a live racing event where the average speed of the vehicles would be .〔 Harry Gant qualified for the pole position with a speed of .〔 The majority of the vehicles involved in the race had Chevrolet as their manufacturer.〔 Steve Gray would make his NASCAR debut that resulted in a last-place finish.〔 He crashed on the very first lap of the race with Roger Hamby and Al Holbert; taking home only $1,305 in winnings ($ when adjusted for inflation).〔 Cale Yarborough would take home $21,465 in winnings for finishing first in the race ($ when adjusted for inflation).〔 56 lead changes were recorded in this race; a rarity outside Talladega Superspeedway and a definite record setter for Pocono Raceway. Dale Earnhardt fractured both of his clavicles by crashing into a wall on lap 98 of this race.〔 As a result, he had to miss the next four races (re-emerging at the 1979 running of the ''Capital City 400''). All of the 39 drivers that qualified for the race were American-born males.〔 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「1979 Coca-Cola 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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