1980 Warner W. Hodgdon 400
| Race details | |||
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| Race 15 of 31 in the 1980 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season | |||
Layout of Riverside International Raceway
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| Date | June 8, 1980 | ||
| Official name | Warner W. Hodgdon 400 | ||
| Location | Riverside International Raceway, Riverside, California | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.700 mi (4.345 km) |
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| Distance | 119 laps, 211.8 mi (401.7 km) | ||
| Weather | Hot with temperatures approaching 87.1 °F (30.6 °C); wind speeds up to 7 miles per hour (11 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 101.846 miles per hour (163.905 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 18,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Junior Johnson | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Darrell Waltrip/Bobby Allison (tied) |
DiGard/Bud Moore | |
| Laps | 23 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 88 | Darrell Waltrip | DiGard | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | Untelevised | ||
| Announcers | None | ||
The 1980 Warner W. Hodgdon 400 was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event that took place on June 8, 1980, at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside, California.
By 1980, NASCAR had completely stopped tracking the year model of all the vehicles and most teams did not take stock cars to the track under their own power anymore. Only manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day. Road courses were one of the more attractive features for NASCAR during the 1980 Winston Cup Series season. NASCAR would develop a liking for mile and a half tracks by the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season.
Darrell Waltrip would beat Neil Bonnett by less than half a second in front of 18000 fans in attendance. There were 18 different changes in the first-place position while there would be five different caution periods for 15 laps.Cale Yarborough would qualify for the pole position with a qualifying speed of 113.792 miles per hour (183.130 km/h) while the average speed of the race would be 101.846 miles per hour (163.905 km/h).Cecil Gordon would earn his last top-ten finish at this race. Other famous drivers who raced here included: Richard Petty, Cale Yarborough, Dale Earnhardt, Bobby Allison, Terry Labonte, and Richard Childress (now the owner of Richard Childress Racing).
D.K. Ulrich would finish last in the race due to an engine issue on the pace laps of this 95-lap race. He would make $1,000 just for qualifying ($2,906.70 when adjusted for inflation) while Waltrip went home with an extra $22,100 in his bank account ($64,238.17 when adjusted for inflation).
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