Home Baseball Hockey Football Racing Basketball Events Privacy
Racing SectionRacing Section NASCAR SectionNASCAR General Cup SectionNASCAR Cup Series Xfinity Series SectionNASCAR Xfinity Series Camping World Truck Series SectionNASCAR Truck Series IndyCar SectionIndyCar Indy Lights SectionIndy Lights F1 SectionF1 CARTChamp Car (CART) IROC SectionIROC
+

Winston Cup Series Series by Race

Nascar Cup Series

The NASCAR Cup Series is a stock car racing series owned and operated by NASCAR (the National Association of Stock Car Auto Racing). NASCAR’s premier series had been known as the NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series since Jan. 1, 2017, rebranded in 2020. It holds races over the season at tracks located in the United States both road courses and ovals. Although the roots of the series was in the use of "stock" manufacturers vehicles, todays cars are custom built automobiles powered by custom built V8 engines.

NASCAR Cup Series Main Page
NASCAR Cup Series Champions
NASCAR Cup Series Rookie/Popular Driver/Manufacturer by Year
NASCAR Cup Series by Year

1981 - Mountain Dew 500 Race Results


Race Name - Mountain Dew 500
Date - 7/26/1981
Race Track - Pocono International Raceway
Track Length (Miles) - 2.5 miles
Race Length (Miles) - 500 miles
Pole Speed - 150.148 mph
Number of Cautions - 6
Caution Laps - 39
Average Race Speed - 119.11 mph
Lead Changes - 27
Total Race Purse - $244,100
Race Number - 19
 More Races from 1981
Fin St Driver # Sponsor Laps Run Make Laps Led Purse
1 1 Darrell Waltrip 11 Mountain Dew (Junior Johnson) 200 Buick 120 $23,640
2 4 Richard Petty 43 STP (Petty Enterprises) 200 Buick 36 $18,915
3 3 Benny Parsons 15 Melling Tool (Bud Moore) 200 Ford 23 $13,515
4 6 Harry Gant 33 Skoal Bandit (Hal Needham) 200 Pontiac 1 $4,990
5 10 Cale Yarborough 27 Valvoline (MC Anderson) 200 Buick 2 $4,290
6 7 Ricky Rudd 88 Gatorade (DiGard) 199 Chevrolet 0 $8,665
7 12 Buddy Baker 1 UNO Caesars Pocono Resorts (Hoss Ellington) 199 Buick 2 $2,690
8 9 Kyle Petty 42 STP (Petty Enterprises) 198 Buick 0 $4,750
9 22 Tim Richmond 12 UNO Caesars Pocono Resorts (Kennie Childers) 198 Oldsmobile 0 $3,090
10 14 Ron Bouchard 47 Race Hill Farm (Jack Beebe) 198 Buick 0 $5,325
11 8 Dale Earnhardt 2 Wrangler (Jim Stacy) 198 Pontiac 4 $9,190
12 15 Gary Balough 75 Ferrailuolo Sons Excavating (RahMoc Enterprises) 196 Chevrolet 0 $4,330
13 5 Terry Labonte 44 Stratagraph (Billy Hagan) 196 Buick 0 $7,240
14 19 Stan Barrett 22 Skoal Bandit (Hal Needham) 196 Pontiac 1 $1,615
15 16 Jody Ridley 90 Truxmore Sunny King (Junie Donlavey) 195 Ford 0 $4,745
16 23 Buddy Arrington 67 Hills Racing (Buddy Arrington) 195 Dodge 0 $3,485
17 17 Mike Alexander 37 Rogers Auto Leasing (Bob Rogers) 195 Buick 0 $1,295
18 25 JD McDuffie 70 Bailey Excavating (JD McDuffie) 193 Pontiac 0 $3,220
19 27 Jimmy Means 52 Broadway Motors (Jimmy Means) 192 Pontiac 0 $3,085
20 30 Joe Booher 40 Booher Farms (DK Ulrich) 189 Buick 0 $1,220
21 31 Cecil Gordon 24 Gordon Racing (Cecil Gordon) 187 Buick 0 $2,910
22 26 James Hylton 48 Palatine Auto Parts (James Hylton) 185 Pontiac 0 $2,775
23 21 Richard Childress 3 Nichols (Richard Childress) 185 Pontiac 0 $2,590
24 32 Al Loquasto 99 Schaefer Beer Z95 (DK Ulrich) 184 Buick 0 $2,345
25 13 Bobby Allison 28 Hardees (Harry Ranier) 179 Buick 4 $6,655
26 34 Rick Newsom 20 Rick Newsom 175 Chevrolet 0 $1,055
27 24 Lake Speed 66 Speed Racing (Lake Speed) 170 Oldsmobile 0 $2,260
28 33 Lowell Cowell 17 Kings Inn Daytona (Roger Hamby) 149 Chevrolet 0 $2,225
29 11 Morgan Shepherd 5 Performance Connection (Cliff Stewart) 139 Pontiac 0 $5,930
30 35 Bruce Jacobi 8 Satterfield Air Conditioning (Don Satterfield) 117 Buick 0 $955
31 20 Tommy Gale 64 Sunny King Ford Honda (Elmo Langley) 94 Ford 0 $2,130
32 29 Bob Riley 60 AIM (Joe May) 84 Pontiac 0 $905
33 18 Dave Marcis 71 Norton Company (Dave Marcis) 83 Buick 0 $1,380
34 2 Neil Bonnett 21 Purolator (Wood Brothers) 80 Ford 7 $1,350
35 28 Ronnie Thomas 25 Shelton Construction (Ronnie Thomas) 62 Pontiac 0 $1,340