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1983 Busch 500

Bristol Motor Speedway · 1983 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Darrell Waltrip	2	29	21	3	6	215	419	223.3

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	2	11	Darrell Waltrip	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	419	215	running	185
2	6	15	Dale Earnhardt	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	419	194	running	175
3	13	22	Bobby Allison	DiGard Motorsports	Buick	419		running	165
4	9	88	Geoff Bodine	Cliff Stewart Racing	Pontiac	418		running	160
5	5	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	418		running	155
6	8	33	Harry Gant	Mach 1 Racing	Buick	418	1	running	155
7	7	47	Ron Bouchard	Race Hill Farm Team	Buick	418	2	running	151
8	11	2	Morgan Shepherd	Jim Stacy Racing	Buick	410		running	142
9	14	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Pontiac	407		running	138
10	15	75	Neil Bonnett	RahMoc Enterprises	Chevrolet	405	2	accident	139
11	19	7	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Pontiac	405		running	130
12	28	41	Ronnie Thomas	Ronnie Thomas Racing	Pontiac	402		running	127
13	20	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Chrysler	399		running	124
14	4	3	Ricky Rudd	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	396		running	121
15	23	17	Sterling Marlin	Hamby Racing	Pontiac	394		running	118
16	24	6	Al Elmore	Ulrich Racing	Buick	393		running	0
17	18	48	Trevor Boys	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	389		running	112
18	1	98	Joe Ruttman	Benfield Racing	Pontiac	380		running	109
19	27	18	Don Satterfield	Satterfield Racing	Buick	368		running	0
20	12	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	353		running	103
21	17	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	314		broken valve	100
22	3	27	Tim Richmond	Blue Max Racing	Pontiac	271	5	accident	102
23	22	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	254		accident	94
24	25	02	Mike Potter	Reeder Racing	Pontiac	253		running	91
25	26	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Pontiac	198		running	88
26	21	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	147		rear end	85
27	10	9	Bill Elliott	Melling Racing	Ford	135		clutch	82
28	16	26	Ronnie Hopkins	Henderson Motorsports	Chevrolet	67		rear end	79
29	29	45	Johnny McFadden	John McFadden (Owner)	Buick	44		brakes	76

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Darrell Waltrip	215	51.3%	P1
2	Dale Earnhardt	194	46.3%	P2
3	Tim Richmond	5	1.2%	P22
4	Ron Bouchard	2	0.5%	P7
5	Neil Bonnett	2	0.5%	P10
6	Harry Gant	1	0.2%	P6

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