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Race Entry List

NASCAR Cup Series

Melling Tool 420

Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville

May 9th, 1981

Race #11 of the 1981 NASCAR Cup Series Season

  • Laps Scheduled: 420
  • Drivers Entered: 27
  • Makes
    • Buick (9)
    • Chevrolet (3)
    • Dodge (1)
    • Ford (3)
    • Oldsmobile (1)
    • Pontiac (10)
  • Last Fairgrounds Speedway Nashville race (Busch Nashville 420)
    • Pole: (-- mph)
    • Winner:
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Car # Driver Hometown Make Sponsor Team Crew Chief
02 Mark Martin Batesville, AR Pontiac Ams Oil / Prototype Bud Reeder
11 Darrell Waltrip Franklin, TN Buick Mountain Dew Junior Johnson
12 Harry Gant Oldsmobile Kencoal Mining Kennie Childers
15 Benny Parsons Ford Melling Tool Bud Moore
17 Mike Potter Chevrolet Kings Inn Daytona Roger Hamby
2 Dale Earnhardt Kannapolis, NC Pontiac Wrangler Rod Osterlund
24 Cecil Gordon Pontiac Gordon Racing Cecil Gordon
25 Charlie Chamblee Pontiac Broadway Motors Jimmy Means
28 Bobby Allison Pontiac Jim Stacy Harry Ranier
3 Richard Childress Pontiac Nichols Richard Childress
37 Mike Alexander Buick Rogers Auto Leasing Bob Rogers
40 DK Ulrich Buick Price Racing Baxter Price
42 Kyle Petty Trinity, NC Buick STP Petty Enterprises
43 Richard Petty Buick STP Petty Enterprises
44 Terry Labonte Corpus Christi, TX Buick Stratagraph Billy Hagan
48 James Hylton Roanoke, VA Pontiac Palatine Auto Parts James Hylton
5 Morgan Shepherd Conover, NC Pontiac Performance Connection Cliff Stewart
52 Jimmy Means Chevrolet Broadway Motors Jimmy Means
64 Tommy Gale Ford Sunny King Ford & Honda Elmo Langley
66 Lake Speed Jackson, MS Pontiac Dinwiddie Racing Harry Dinwiddie
67 Buddy Arrington Dodge Hills Racing Ed Negre
70 JD McDuffie Pontiac Bailey Excavating J.D. McDuffie
71 Dave Marcis Wausau, WI Chevrolet Transmission Enterprise Dave Marcis
88 Ricky Rudd Chesapeake, VA Buick Gatorade DiGard
90 Jody Ridley Ford Truxmore / Sunny King Junie Donlavey
94 Bobby Wawak Buick Louise Smith Bobby Wawak
99 Tim Richmond Buick UNO D.K. Ulrich