1983 Southern 500

Darlington Raceway · 1983 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Bobby Allison	14	41	22	5	9	119	367	501.3

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	14	22	Bobby Allison	DiGard Motorsports	Buick	367	119	running	185
2	12	9	Bill Elliott	Melling Racing	Ford	367	3	running	175
3	7	11	Darrell Waltrip	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	367	30	running	170
4	1	75	Neil Bonnett	RahMoc Enterprises	Chevrolet	367	101	running	165
5	2	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	367		running	155
6	9	21	Buddy Baker	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	366	18	running	155
7	15	28	Cale Yarborough	Ranier-Lundy Racing	Chevrolet	366	1	running	151
8	4	55	Benny Parsons	Johnny Hayes (Owner)	Chevrolet	366		running	142
9	19	2	Morgan Shepherd	Jim Stacy Racing	Buick	364	1	running	143
10	5	16	David Pearson	Bobby Hawkins (Owner)	Chevrolet	363	18	running	139
11	17	15	Dale Earnhardt	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	363		running	130
12	21	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Pontiac	363		running	127
13	11	88	Geoff Bodine	Cliff Stewart Racing	Pontiac	362		running	124
14	23	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	361		running	121
15	3	1	Lake Speed	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	359		running	118
16	41	6	D.K. Ulrich	Ulrich Racing	Buick	353		running	115
17	27	4	Mark Martin	Morgan-McClure Motorsports	Oldsmobile	351		running	112
18	34	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	351		running	109
19	25	77	Ken Ragan	Branch-Ragan Racing	Chevrolet	342		running	106
20	26	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Chevrolet	339		running	103
21	37	74	Bobby Wawak	Wawak Racing	Chevrolet	337		running	100
22	20	33	Harry Gant	Mach 1 Racing	Buick	330		running	97
23	35	35	Dick May	Beahr Racing Enterprises	Ford	318		ignition	94
24	33	17	Sterling Marlin	Hamby Racing	Pontiac	282		accident	91
25	8	3	Ricky Rudd	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	272	76	engine	93
26	6	27	Tim Richmond	Blue Max Racing	Pontiac	245		cylinder head	85
27	39	18	Slick Johnson	Satterfield Racing	Buick	217		handling	82
28	30	48	Trevor Boys	Hylton Engineering	Chevrolet	217		accident	79
29	28	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	207		engine	76
30	36	41	Ronnie Thomas	Ronnie Thomas Racing	Pontiac	179		engine	73
31	13	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	142		accident	70
32	18	47	Ron Bouchard	Race Hill Farm Team	Buick	117		engine	67
33	16	84	Jody Ridley	Robert McEntyre (Owner)	Chevrolet	113		brakes	64
34	32	99	Philip Duffie	Duffie Racing	Buick	109		engine	61
35	22	7	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Pontiac	107		accident	58
36	38	76	Mike Potter	Potter Racing	Oldsmobile	98		ignition	55
37	40	70	J.D. McDuffie	McDuffie Racing	Pontiac	54		engine	52
38	10	98	Joe Ruttman	Benfield Racing	Pontiac	34		cylinder head	49
39	31	42	Lennie Pond	Matthews Racing	Buick	25		accident	46
40	24	26	Ronnie Hopkins	Henderson Motorsports	Chevrolet	15		engine	43
41	29	8	Bobby Hillin Jr.	Hillin Racing	Buick	11		engine	40

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Bobby Allison	119	32.4%	P1
2	Neil Bonnett	101	27.5%	P4
3	Ricky Rudd	76	20.7%	P25
4	Darrell Waltrip	30	8.2%	P3
5	Buddy Baker	18	4.9%	P6
6	David Pearson	18	4.9%	P10
7	Bill Elliott	3	0.8%	P2
8	Cale Yarborough	1	0.3%	P7
9	Morgan Shepherd	1	0.3%	P9

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