| Fin |
St |
# |
Driver |
Sponsor / Owner |
Car |
Laps |
Money |
Status |
Led |
Points |
| 1 | 3 | 33 | Harry Gant | Skoal Bandit (Hal Needham) | Chevrolet | 500 | 40,005 | running | 281 | 185 |
| 2 | 1 | 44 | Terry Labonte | Piedmont Airlines (Billy Hagan) | Chevrolet | 500 | 17,870 | running | 104 | 175 |
| 3 | 7 | 15 | Ricky Rudd | Wrangler Jeans (Bud Moore) | Ford | 498 | 17,200 | running | 1 | 170 |
| 4 | 13 | 75 | Dave Marcis | Rahilly & Grady (RahMoc Enterprises) | Pontiac | 497 | 15,020 | running | 0 | 160 |
| 5 | 2 | 3 | Dale Earnhardt | Wrangler Jeans (Richard Childress) | Chevrolet | 497 | 11,710 | running | 35 | 160 |
| 6 | 8 | 12 | Neil Bonnett | Budweiser (Junior Johnson) | Chevrolet | 497 | 5,805 | running | 0 | 150 |
| 7 | 16 | 90 | Dick Brooks | Chameleon Sunglasses (Junie Donlavey) | Ford | 497 | 6,685 | running | 0 | 146 |
| 8 | 10 | 47 | Ron Bouchard | Race Hill Farm (Jack Beebe) | Buick | 495 | 6,265 | running | 68 | 147 |
| 9 | 9 | 5 | Geoffrey Bodine | Northwestern Security Life (Rick Hendrick) | Chevrolet | 492 | 9,000 | running | 0 | 138 |
| 10 | 18 | 48 | Trevor Boys | Hylton-McCaig (James Hylton) | Chevrolet | 491 | 6,530 | running | 7 | 139 |
| 11 | 5 | 11 | Darrell Waltrip | Budweiser (Junior Johnson) | Chevrolet | 491 | 10,740 | running | 1 | 135 |
| 12 | 21 | 71 | Lennie Pond | Jim Testa (Dave Marcis) | Oldsmobile | 489 | 5,315 | running | 0 | 127 |
| 13 | 34 | 01 | Doug Heveron | Syracuse Classic (Tom Heveron) | Chevrolet | 485 | 2,450 | crash | 0 | 124 |
| 14 | 17 | 7 | Kyle Petty | 7-Eleven (Petty Enterprises) | Ford | 483 | 10,240 | running | 0 | 121 |
| 15 | 25 | 52 | Jimmy Means | Broadway Motors (Jimmy Means) | Chevrolet | 477 | 5,155 | running | 0 | 118 |
| 16 | 38 | 70 | J.D. McDuffie | McDuffie Racing (J.D. McDuffie) | Pontiac | 477 | 5,445 | running | 0 | 115 |
| 17 | 20 | 67 | Buddy Arrington | Affordable Car Rentals (Buddy Arrington) | Chrysler | 475 | 4,185 | running | 0 | 112 |
| 18 | 22 | 64 | Clark Dwyer | Sunny King Ford & Honda (Elmo Langley) | Ford | 473 | 3,815 | running | 0 | 109 |
| 19 | 35 | 35 | Dick May | Lockhart Ford-Mercury (Wayne Beahr) | Ford | 450 | 1,440 | running | 0 | 106 |
| 20 | 29 | 50 | Jim Southard | Commodore Properties (Jim Southard) | Buick | 440 | 1,690 | running | 0 | 103 |
| 21 | 28 | 23 | Gene Coyle | Bahre Racing (Dick Bahre) | Chevrolet | 435 | 1,240 | running | 0 | 100 |
| 22 | 19 | 17 | Morgan Shepherd | Hesco Exhaust Systems (Roger Hamby) | Chevrolet | 429 | 3,405 | oil leak | 0 | 97 |
| 23 | 33 | 13 | Johnny Coy, Jr. | Halverson Racing (Jeff Halverson) | Buick | 416 | 1,090 | running | 0 | 94 |
| 24 | 32 | 00 | Phil Good | Good Racing (Phil Good) | Chrysler | 331 | 1,065 | crash | 0 | 91 |
| 25 | 23 | 51 | Greg Sacks | Sacks & Sons (Arnie Sacks) | Chevrolet | 329 | 1,040 | engine | 0 | 88 |
| 26 | 26 | 21 | Buddy Baker | Valvoline (Wood Brothers) | Ford | 315 | 1,015 | valve | 0 | 85 |
| 27 | 40 | 85 | Tommie Crozier | Leonard Racing (Bill Leonard) | Pontiac | 277 | 990 | overheating | 0 | 82 |
| 28 | 12 | 27 | Tim Richmond | Old Milwaukee (Raymond Beadle) | Pontiac | 274 | 7,465 | crash | 0 | 79 |
| 29 | 36 | 84 | Jody Ridley | Cumberland Carpet Mills (Robert McEntyre) | Chevrolet | 274 | 940 | crash | 0 | 76 |
| 30 | 14 | 88 | Rusty Wallace | Gatorade (Cliff Stewart) | Pontiac | 273 | 3,170 | crash | 2 | 78 |
| 31 | 37 | 92 | Joe Fields | Hobart Sales & Service (Joe Fields) | Buick | 264 | 890 | crash | 0 | 70 |
| 32 | 4 | 9 | Bill Elliott | Coors (Harry Melling) | Ford | 242 | 7,580 | crash | 0 | 67 |
| 33 | 15 | 98 | Joe Ruttman | Levi Garrett (Ron Benfield) | Chevrolet | 212 | 3,105 | valve | 0 | 64 |
| 34 | 24 | 4 | Tommy Ellis | Morgan-McClure (Larry McClure) | Chevrolet | 198 | 860 | engine | 0 | 61 |
| 35 | 30 | 41 | Ronnie Thomas | Thomas Racing (Ronnie Thomas) | Chevrolet | 192 | 2,350 | crash | 0 | 58 |
| 36 | 6 | 22 | Bobby Allison | Miller High Life (DiGard) | Buick | 118 | 11,790 | crash | 1 | 60 |
| 37 | 11 | 43 | Richard Petty | STP (Mike Curb) | Pontiac | 92 | 2,250 | oil pump | 0 | 52 |
| 38 | 31 | 96 | Jerry Bowman | Milford Fertilizer (Grimes Holcomb) | Ford | 84 | 750 | engine | 0 | 49 |
| 39 | 39 | 59 | Bobby Gerhart | Frederick (Bobby Gerhart / Billy Gerhart) | Chevrolet | 72 | 750 | exhaust | 0 | 46 |
| 40 | 27 | 6 | Jimmy Ingalls | U.S. Racing (D.K. Ulrich) | Chevrolet | 32 | 2,250 | crash | 0 | 43 |