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1983 Firecracker 400

Daytona International Speedway · 1983 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Buddy Baker	8	40	27	5	11	45	160	400

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	8	21	Buddy Baker	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	160	45	running	185
2	31	2	Morgan Shepherd	Jim Stacy Racing	Buick	160	2	running	175
3	15	16	David Pearson	Bobby Hawkins (Owner)	Chevrolet	160		running	165
4	10	47	Ron Bouchard	Race Hill Farm Team	Buick	160	8	running	165
5	3	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	160	43	running	160
6	5	88	Geoff Bodine	Cliff Stewart Racing	Pontiac	159		running	150
7	14	9	Bill Elliott	Melling Racing	Ford	159		running	146
8	21	84	Jody Ridley	Robert McEntyre (Owner)	Buick	158		running	142
9	7	15	Dale Earnhardt	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	158	19	running	143
10	37	51	Lennie Pond	Tom Beck (Owner)	Buick	157	3	running	139
11	25	33	Harry Gant	Mach 1 Racing	Buick	157		running	130
12	23	77	Ken Ragan	Branch-Ragan Racing	Chevrolet	157		running	127
13	26	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	156		running	124
14	13	22	Bobby Allison	DiGard Motorsports	Buick	156	5	running	126
15	40	8	Bobby Hillin Jr.	Hillin Racing	Buick	155		running	0
16	28	17	Sterling Marlin	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	155		running	115
17	32	48	Trevor Boys	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	153		running	112
18	17	6	Connie Saylor	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	153		running	0
19	16	4	Mark Martin	Morgan-McClure Motorsports	Oldsmobile	153		running	106
20	24	11	Darrell Waltrip	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	152		running	103
21	6	3	Ricky Rudd	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	149		running	100
22	35	24	Cecil Gordon	Gordon Racing	Chrysler	148		running	97
23	39	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	148		running	94
24	27	41	Ronnie Thomas	Ronnie Thomas Racing	Pontiac	147		running	91
25	29	10	Clark Dwyer	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	147		running	88
26	4	55	Benny Parsons	Johnny Hayes (Owner)	Chevrolet	145	16	engine	90
27	33	74	Bobby Wawak	Wawak Racing	Chevrolet	128		running	82
28	9	75	Neil Bonnett	RahMoc Enterprises	Chevrolet	124		running	79
29	19	1	Lake Speed	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	115		engine	76
30	18	7	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Pontiac	112		engine	73
31	11	27	Tim Richmond	Blue Max Racing	Pontiac	102		ignition	70
32	12	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	78	16	accident	72
33	30	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Pontiac	78		accident	64
34	20	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Chrysler	74		engine	61
35	34	0	Delma Cowart	HL Waters (Owner)	Buick	69		piston	58
36	38	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Buick	69		engine	55
37	2	98	Joe Ruttman	Benfield Racing	Chevrolet	30	2	engine	57
38	22	5	Greg Sacks	Sacks & Sons	Chevrolet	19		engine	49
39	36	39	Blackie Wangerin	Wangerin Racing	Ford	9		engine	46
40	1	28	Cale Yarborough	Ranier-Lundy Racing	Chevrolet	5	1	engine	48

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Buddy Baker	45	28.1%	P1
2	Terry Labonte	43	26.9%	P5
3	Dale Earnhardt	19	11.9%	P9
4	Benny Parsons	16	10.0%	P26
5	Dick Brooks	16	10.0%	P32
6	Ron Bouchard	8	5.0%	P4
7	Bobby Allison	5	3.1%	P14
8	Lennie Pond	3	1.9%	P10
9	Morgan Shepherd	2	1.3%	P2
10	Joe Ruttman	2	1.3%	P37
11	Cale Yarborough	1	0.6%	P40

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