Gould Twin Dixie
Atlanta Motor Speedway
1.522 Mile Paved Oval
100 Laps/152.2 Miles
July 23, 1978

Finish Start Driver Car # Sponsor/Name Chassis Engine Laps Status

Points
1 3 Rick Mears 7 Gould Charge Penske PC-6 Cosworth TC 100 1:03:43.95 141.215 300
2 5 Johnny Rutherford 4 1st National Travel Check McLaren Cosworth TC 100 Finished 240
3 4 Bobby Unser 48 ARCOgraphite Eagle Cosworth TC 100 Finished 210
4 9 A. J. Foyt 14 Gilmore Racing Coyote Foyt TC 99 Flagged 180
5 10 Steve Krisiloff 40 Foreman Industries Wildcat DGS 99 Flagged 150
6 15 Tom Bagley 22 Kent Oil Watson Offy TC 98 Flagged 120
7 8 Gordon Johncock 20 North American Van Lines Wildcat DGS 98 Flagged 90
8 1 Tom Sneva 1 Norton Spirit Penske PC-6 Cosworth TC 97 Flagged 75
9 13 Wally Dallenbach 6 Sugaripe Prune McLaren Cosworth TC 97 Flagged 60
10 16 Joe Saldana 69 Mr. Wize Carpets Eagle Offy TC 97 Flagged 45
11 6 Pancho Carter 8 Budweiser Lightning Cosworth TC 97 Flagged 30
12 18 Roger Rager 81 Dairy Queen Eagle Offy TC 96 Flagged 15
13 11 Jim McElreath 26 Circle City Coal Eagle Offy TC 95 Flagged 8
14 12 Al Unser 2 1st National Travel Check Chaparral Cosworth TC 94 Out of fuel 8
15 21 Todd Gibson 75 Gibson Racing Eagle Offy TC 92 Flagged 8
16 17 Jerry Sneva 30 Smock Material McLaren Offy TC 89 Flagged 8
17 14 Sheldon Kinser 24 Thermo-King Watson Offy TC 78 Flagged 6
18 20 Dick Simon 17 La Machine Vollstedt Offy TC 62 Handling 6
19 19 Al Loquasto 92 McCord Auto Eagle Offy TC 47 Transmission 6
20 7 Johnny Parsons 16 1st National Travel Check Lightning Offy TC 34 Wrecked 6
21 2 Danny Ongais 25 Interscope Racing Parnelli Cosworth TC 11 Engine 5
22 22 Spike Gehlhausen 19 Tibon Eagle Offy TC 4 Overheated 5
-- -- Lee Kunzman 90 Hanks Datsun Sugai Fox X -- Did not qualify
-- -- Phil Threshie 87 Machinists Union X X -- Wrecked practice

Lap Leaders Total Laps
Rick Mears 68 13-34, 47-49, 54-77, 82-100
Johnny Rutherford 14 41-46, 50-53, 78-81
Tom Sneva 11 1-9, 11-12
Steve Krisiloff 4 37-40
Gordon Johncock 2 35-36
Danny Ongais 1 10