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The 1979 Southern 500, the 30th running of the event, was a ''NASCAR Winston Cup Series'' (now Sprint Cup Series) race that took place on September 3, 1979, at Darlington Raceway in Darlington, South Carolina. 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. ==Summary== Three hundred and sixty seven laps were done on a paved oval track spanning for a grand total of .〔 The total time of the race as three hours, fifty-eight minutes, and fourteen seconds. Speeds were: for the average and for the pole position speed.〔 There were nine cautions for fifty-two laps.〔 David Pearson, who was in semi-retirement and had left the Wood Brothers after a disastrous pit stop at the Rebel 500 earlier that year, was driving for Rod Osterlund in his last race for the team as a substitute for rookie contender Dale Earnhardt, injured at the Pocono race, defeated Bill Elliott by two laps and four seconds.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1979 Southern 500 racing results (third reference) )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】 1979 Southern 500 racing results (second reference) )〕 He would race for an injured Dale Earnhardt.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 David Pearson taking over for injured Earnhardt )〕 Sixty thousand people came to watch this live event.〔 Other famous drivers at the event include Darrell Waltrip, Richard Childress, Richard Petty, Terry Labonte, and Ricky Rudd.〔〔〔 Darrell Waltrip had controlled the race until his late-race incidents that dropped him to 11th, which ended his shot at sweeping the track's two races. This race would be a microcosm of his own career at Darlington; despite two Rebel 500 wins (1977 and 1979, and two further wins in 1981 and 1984), Waltrip's inability to win the Southern 500 in the fall would haunt him during his career (he never took the checkered flag first in the Southern 500; his 1992 win came when NASCAR waved the red flag, and the cars were parked at the end of pit lane with 69 laps remaining). Those late race incidents in this race would later cause him to lose the 1979 championship to Richard Petty.〔〔 The top prize of the race was $29,925 ($ when considering inflation).〔〔〔 The participants of this race were all American-born males.〔 Only manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day. 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 Southern 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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