Sunday 5th October 1980
Dale Earnhardt held off Cale Yarborough down the stretch to win the National 500, scoring his first Charlotte Motor Speedway (North Carolina, US victory. Earnhardt, who led 148 of 334 laps in a Rod Osterlund-owned Chevrolet, finished 1.83 seconds ahead of Yarborough at the 1.5-mile track near his hometown of Kannapolis, North Carolina, US. Pole-starter Buddy Baker finished third with Ricky Rudd fourth as the last driver on the lead lap.
