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Race Results - Indianapolis 500 - 1978

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Finish	Start	Car Num.	Driver	Car Name/Entrant	Make/Model	Status	Laps	Led	Winnings
1	5	2	Al Unser	1st National City Travelers Checks	Lola/Cosworth	161.363	200	121	$290,364
2	1	1	Tom Sneva	Norton Spirit	Penske/Cosworth	161.244	200	3	$112,704
3	6	20	Gordon Johncock	North American Van Lines	Wildcat/DGS	Running	199	0	$61,769
4	13	40	Steve Krisiloff	Foreman Industries	Wildcat/DGS	Running	198	5	$39,504
5	7	6	Wally Dallenbach	Sugaripe Prune	McLaren/Cosworth	Running	195	0	$35,632
6	19	48	Bobby Unser	ARCO Graphite	Eagle/Cosworth	Running	195	0	$29,478
7	20	14	A.J. Foyt	Gilmore Racing/Citicorp	Coyote/Foyt	Running	191	0	$29,628
8	23	84	George Snider	Gilmore Racing/Citicorp	Coyote/Foyt	Running	191	0	$25,818
9	15	51	Janet Guthrie	Texaco Star	Wildcat/DGS	Running	190	0	$24,115
10	8	16	Johnny Parsons	1st National City Travelers Checks	Lightning/Offy	Running	186	0	$26,129
11	30	35	Larry Rice	Bryant Heating/WIBC	Lightning/Offy	Engine	186	0	$24,276
12	33	7	Mario Andretti	Gould Charge	Penske/Cosworth	Running	185	0	$23,252
13	4	4	Johnny Rutherford	1st National City Travelers Checks	McLaren/Cosworth	Running	180	0	$31,805
14	28	88	Jerry Karl	Machinists Union	McLaren/Offy	Running	176	0	$20,930
15	24	69	Joe Saldana	Mr. Wize Buys Carpet Shop	Eagle/Offy	Running	173	0	$20,691
16	31	98	Gary Bettenhausen	Oberdorfer	Kingfish/Offy	Engine	147	0	$20,130
17	25	78	Mike Mosley	Alex XLNT Foods	Lightning/Offy	Turbocharger	146	0	$20,247
18	2	25	Danny Ongais	Interscope Racing	Parnelli/Cosworth	Blown engine	145	71	$33,242
19	10	17	Dick Simon	La Machine	Vollstedt/Offy	Wheel bearing	138	0	$18,516
20	26	26	Jim McElreath	Circle City Coal	Eagle/Offy	Engine	132	0	$19,119
21	18	43	Tom Bigelow	Armstrong Mould	Wildcat/DGS	Rod	107	0	$18,000
22	9	80	Larry Dickson	Polak/Stay-On Car Glaze	Penske/Cosworth	Oil pressure	104	0	$22,659
23	3	71	Rick Mears	CAM2 Motor Oil	Penske/Cosworth	Engine	103	0	$22,396
24	21	8	Pancho Carter	Budweiser	Lightning/Cosworth	Header	92	0	$20,262
25	11	11	Roger McCluskey	National Engineering Co.	Eagle/AMC	Clutch	82	0	$18,707
26	17	39	John Mahler	Tibon	Eagle/Offy	Timing gear	58	0	$16,330
27	14	22	Tom Bagley	Kent Oil	Watson/Offy	Oil leak	25	0	$16,281
28	22	77	Salt Walther	Dayton-Walther	McLaren/Cosworth	Clutch	24	0	$16,560
29	16	19	Spike Gehlhausen	Hubler Chevrolet/WIRE Radio	Eagle/Offy	Accident	23	0	$15,968
30	29	47	Phil Threshie	Circle City Chevrolet/Tutweiler Cadillac	Lightning/Offy	Oil pressure	22	0	$15,705
31	32	30	Jerry Sneva	Smock Material Handling	McLaren/Offy	Transmission	18	0	$18,120
32	12	24	Sheldon Kinser	Thermo-King	Watson/Offy	Oil pressure	15	0	$15,813
33	27	29	Cliff Hucul	Wendy's Hamburgers	McLaren/Offy	Oil line	4	0	$15,534

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Race Results - Indianapolis 500 - 1978