1976 Dixie 500
| Race details | |||
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| Race 29 of 30 in the 1976 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season | |||
Layout of Atlanta International Speedway, used until 1996
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| Date | November 7, 1976 | ||
| Official name | Dixie 500 | ||
| Location | Atlanta International Raceway, Hampton, Georgia | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 1.522 mi (2.449 km) |
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| Distance | 328 laps, 499.2 mi (803.3 km) | ||
| Weather | Chilly with temperatures approaching 66.9 °F (19.4 °C); wind speeds up to 15 miles per hour (24 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 127.396 miles per hour (205.024 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 46,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Bud Moore Engineering | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Dave Marcis | K&K Insurance Racing | |
| Laps | 224 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 71 | Dave Marcis | K&K Insurance Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | CBS | ||
| Announcers | Ken Squier | ||
The 1976 Dixie 500 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series) race that took place on November 7, 1976, at Atlanta International Raceway in Hampton, Georgia.
Only manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day.
Atlanta International Raceway (now Atlanta Motor Speedway) is one of ten current intermediate track to hold NASCAR races; the others are Charlotte Motor Speedway, Chicagoland Speedway, Darlington Raceway, Homestead Miami Speedway, Kansas Speedway, Kentucky Speedway, Las Vegas Motor Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway, and Texas Motor Speedway. However, at the time, only Charlotte and Darlington were built.
The layout at Atlanta International Speedway at the time was a four-turn traditional oval track that is 1.54 miles (2.48 km) long. The track's turns are banked at twenty-four degrees, while the front stretch, the location of the finish line, and the back stretch are banked at five.
Three hundred and twenty eight laps were done on a paved oval track spanning 1.522 miles (2.449 km) for a grand total of 499.2 miles (803.4 km). The total time of the race was three hours and fifty-five minutes. Four cautions were made for forty-one laps.Dave Marcis defeated David Pearson by two car lengths.Chevrolet vehicles managed to fill out the majority of the racing grid.
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