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The ''1980 Richmond 400'' was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on February 24, 1980, at Richmond Fairgrounds Raceway (now Richmond International Raceway) in Richmond, Virginia. 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 35 American-born male drivers on the grid. Darrell Waltrip defeated Bobby Allison by 1.2 seconds in front of 17,000 people.〔〔(''1980 Richmond 400'' ) racing information at Race Database〕 Nine caution flags were waved for 72 laps along with 19 different lead changes resulted in a race that lasted three hours and twelve minutes.〔〔 While Waltrip would earn the pole position with a qualifying speed of in his #88 Chevrolet Malibu vehicle, the average speed of the actual race was 〔 - a difference of between the pole position speed and the actual speeds of the race.〔 Baxter Price achieved the last-place finish of the race due to a crash on lap 45 out of the 400 laps being done that day.〔〔 Richard Childress (racing for himself at Richard Childress Racing) would be the last driver to actually finish the race.〔〔 He would drive an Oldsmobile as opposed to the Chevrolet vehicles that he would own today.〔〔 Tommy Houston would make his NASCAR debut here while Joey Arrington would retire here. Joe Booher would make his best career finish here before dying years later. 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「1980 Richmond 400」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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