| Fin |
St |
# |
Driver |
Sponsor / Owner |
Car |
Laps |
Money |
Status |
Led |
Points |
| 24 | 29 | 74 | Stuart Huffman | Bluegrass Express (Bobby Wawak) | Buick | 340 | 510 | transmission | 0 | |
| 26 | 25 | 09 | Dick May | Pokeys of Doylestown (Nelson Oswald) | Buick | 204 | 490 | battery | 0 | 85 |
| 1 | 1 | 11 | Cale Yarborough | Busch (Junior Johnson) | Chevrolet | 500 | 16,550 | running | 379 | 185 |
| 2 | 7 | 2 | Dale Earnhardt | Mike Curb / Hodgdon (Rod Osterlund) | Chevrolet | 500 | 11,450 | running | 24 | 175 |
| 3 | 4 | 88 | Darrell Waltrip | Gatorade (DiGard) | Chevrolet | 500 | 7,500 | running | 55 | 170 |
| 4 | 3 | 43 | Richard Petty | STP (Petty Enterprises) | Chevrolet | 499 | 7,700 | running | 10 | 165 |
| 5 | 6 | 27 | Benny Parsons | Melling Tool (M.C. Anderson) | Chevrolet | 499 | 5,450 | running | 3 | 160 |
| 7 | 10 | 71 | Dave Marcis | Buck Stove / Hudson Transmission (Dave Marcis) | Chevrolet | 496 | 4,860 | running | 0 | 146 |
| 9 | 14 | 3 | Richard Childress | CRC Chemicals (Richard Childress) | Chevrolet | 487 | 3,960 | running | 0 | 138 |
| 10 | 5 | 40 | D.K. Ulrich | Ulrich Racing (D.K. Ulrich) | Chevrolet | 483 | 3,490 | running | 0 | 134 |
| 11 | 19 | 70 | J.D. McDuffie | Bailey Excavating (J.D. McDuffie) | Chevrolet | 479 | 3,130 | running | 0 | 130 |
| 14 | 2 | 47 | Harry Gant | Race Hill Farm (Jack Beebe) | Chevrolet | 468 | 2,665 | engine | 5 | 126 |
| 15 | 16 | 75 | John Anderson | RahMoc Enterprises | Chevrolet | 468 | 700 | running | 0 | 118 |
| 16 | 22 | 17 | Roger Hamby | Kings Inn Daytona (Roger Hamby) | Chevrolet | 465 | 1,705 | running | 0 | 115 |
| 17 | 20 | 48 | James Hylton | Palatine Automotive Parts (James Hylton) | Chevrolet | 456 | 1,820 | engine | 0 | 112 |
| 18 | 28 | 45 | Baxter Price | Iron Peddlers (Baxter Price) | Chevrolet | 452 | 1,635 | running | 0 | 109 |
| 22 | 17 | 52 | Jimmy Means | Thompson Industries (Jimmy Means) | Chevrolet | 364 | 785 | engine | 0 | 97 |
| 23 | 8 | 44 | Terry Labonte | Apache Stove (Billy Hagan) | Chevrolet | 343 | 1,020 | crash | 19 | 99 |
| 25 | 24 | 19 | Steve Spencer | Belden Asphalt (Henley Gray) | Chevrolet | 204 | 750 | crash | 0 | |
| 27 | 13 | 79 | Junior Miller | Miller Roofing (Junior Miller) | Chevrolet | 165 | 730 | engine | 0 | 82 |
| 28 | 9 | 7 | Ricky Rudd | Sanyo (Nelson Malloch) | Chevrolet | 135 | 720 | strut rod | 0 | 79 |
| 29 | 21 | 25 | Ronnie Thomas | Stone's Cafeteria (Don Robertson) | Chevrolet | 17 | 810 | engine | 0 | 76 |
| 30 | 30 | 84 | Bobby Sands | Sands Racing (Bobby Sands) | Chevrolet | 2 | 450 | transmission | 0 | 73 |
| 20 | 23 | 67 | Buddy Arrington | Reid Trailer Sales (Buddy Arrington) | Dodge | 402 | 1,275 | engine | 0 | 103 |
| 6 | 11 | 15 | Bobby Allison | Mike Curb / Hodgdon (Bud Moore) | Ford | 498 | 5,100 | running | 5 | 155 |
| 13 | 18 | 64 | Tommy Gale | Sunny King Ford & Honda (Elmo Langley) | Ford | 474 | 2,900 | running | 0 | 124 |
| 12 | 15 | 90 | Jody Ridley | Truxmore / Sunny King (Junie Donlavey) | Mercury | 477 | 3,410 | engine | 0 | 127 |
| 8 | 12 | 68 | Lennie Pond | Valleydale Meats (Jim Testa) | Oldsmobile | 496 | 2,065 | running | 0 | 142 |
| 19 | 26 | 24 | Cecil Gordon | South Hill Texaco (Cecil Gordon) | Oldsmobile | 403 | 1,300 | running | 0 | 106 |
| 21 | 27 | 61 | Bub Strickler | Duro-Bond (Jim Norris) | Oldsmobile | 396 | 550 | crash | 0 | |