| Southern 200 | Date: | 10/1/1978 |
| Finish | Start | CarNo | Driver | Laps | Status | Division: | LMS |
| 1 | 1 | 77 | Harry Gant | 200 | Running |
| 2 | 16 | Butch Lindley | 200 | Running | |
| 3 | 14 | Sterling Marlin | 200 | Running | |
| 4 | 84 | Mike Alexander | 200 | Running | |
| 5 | 04 | Richard Waters | 199 | ||
| 6 | 1 | Ken Gay | 197 | ||
| 7 | Jerry Long | 196 | |||
| 8 | 75 | Al Henderson | 195 | ||
| 9 | Ronnie Hutton | 195 | |||
| 10 | Randy Dealie | 194 | |||
| 11 | 23 | Tony Cunningham | 193 | ||
| 12 | 67 | David Ray | 191 | ||
| 13 | 76 | Windle Webster | 189 | ||
| 14 | Russ Chapman | 141 | |||
| 15 | 55 | James Ham | 137 | ||
| 16 | 21 | Wayne Carden | 120 | ||
| 17 | 71 | Gene Glover | 117 | ||
| 18 | Butch Allen | 113 | |||
| 19 | Terry Vickers | 92 | |||
| 20 | 81 | L.D. Ottinger | 75 | Accident | |
| 21 | Bosco Lowe | 74 | |||
| 22 | 4 | Bob Pressley | 73 | Accident | |
| 23 | 2 | Dorris Vaughn | 71 | Accident | |
| 24 | 98 | Harold Lemley | 66 | ||
| 25 | Phil Spickard | 47 | |||
| 26 | 27 | Steve Spencer | 46 | ||
| 27 | Alan Rogers | 33 | |||
| 28 | 12 | Butch Applegate | 19 | ||
| 29 | 43 | Bob Hailey | 18 | ||
| 30 | 11 | Jack Ingram | 14 |