| Bristol Motor Speedway
August 26, 1978 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series 0.5-Mile Short Track 500 Laps/250 Miles |
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| Pos | Driver | Points | Starts | Wins | Top 5 | Top 10 | Avg Fin |
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| 1 | Cale Yarborough | 3,347 | 21 | 6 | 16 | 16 | 6.6 |
| 2 | Dave Marcis | 3,139 | 21 | 0 | 12 | 17 | 7.2 |
| 3 | Benny Parsons | 3,105 | 21 | 3 | 12 | 14 | 8.9 |
| 4 | Darrell Waltrip | 2,908 | 21 | 5 | 11 | 12 | 12.4 |
| 5 | Bobby Allison | 2,841 | 21 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 12.1 |
| 6 | Richard Petty | 2,796 | 21 | 0 | 8 | 12 | 12.2 |
| 7 | Lennie Pond | 2,623 | 19 | 1 | 10 | 13 | 11.0 |
| 8 | Buddy Arrington | 2,582 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 13.6 |
| 9 | Dick Brooks | 2,555 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 11 | 14.7 |
| 10 | Richard Childress | 2,504 | 21 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 15.5 |
| 11 | Tighe Scott | 2,307 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 17.9 |
| 12 | Neil Bonnett | 2,246 | 21 | 0 | 4 | 9 | 19.9 |
| 13 | Frank Warren | 2,163 | 21 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.0 |
| 14 | David Pearson | 2,052 | 15 | 4 | 9 | 9 | 12.5 |
| 15 | Dick May | 1,987 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.5 |
| 16 | Jimmy Means | 1,932 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 20.5 |
| 17 | Cecil Gordon | 1,905 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 20.9 |
| 18 | Ronnie Thomas | 1,868 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 21.6 |
| 19 | Tommy Gale | 1,757 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 19.9 |
| 20 | Baxter Price | 1,721 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20.6 |
| 21 | Skip Manning | 1,665 | 15 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 17.7 |
| 22 | Roger Hamby | 1,599 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 23.0 |
| 23 | Buddy Baker | 1,370 | 12 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 18.3 |
| 24 | Grant Adcox | 1,284 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 15.9 |
| 25 | Donnie Allison | 1,136 | 11 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 20.5 |