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1983 Coca-Cola 500

Atlanta Motor Speedway · 1983 · NASCAR Cup Series

Race summary

Winner	St	Cars	RAF	LLF	Ldrs	W-Led	Laps	Miles
Cale Yarborough	22	41	24	8	10	78	328	499.2

Finishing order

Fin	St	Car	Driver	Team	Make	Laps	Led	Status	Pts
1	22	28	Cale Yarborough	Ranier-Lundy Racing	Chevrolet	328	78	running	180
2	6	75	Neil Bonnett	RahMoc Enterprises	Chevrolet	328	83	running	180
3	2	21	Buddy Baker	Wood Brothers Racing	Ford	328		running	165
4	5	98	Joe Ruttman	Benfield Racing	Buick	328	10	running	165
5	11	43	Richard Petty	Petty Enterprises	Pontiac	328	76	running	160
6	14	90	Dick Brooks	Donlavey Racing	Ford	328	18	running	155
7	12	2	Mark Martin	Jim Stacy Racing	Buick	328		running	146
8	9	44	Terry Labonte	Hagan Enterprises	Chevrolet	328		running	142
9	16	27	Tim Richmond	Blue Max Racing	Pontiac	327		running	138
10	20	3	Ricky Rudd	Richard Childress Racing	Chevrolet	326		running	134
11	19	33	Harry Gant	Mach 1 Racing	Buick	326		running	130
12	15	47	Ron Bouchard	Race Hill Farm Team	Buick	325		running	127
13	29	71	Dave Marcis	Marcis Auto Racing	Chevrolet	324		running	124
14	17	55	Benny Parsons	Johnny Hayes (Owner)	Buick	323	11	engine	126
15	26	1	Lake Speed	Ellington Racing	Chevrolet	323		running	118
16	24	67	Buddy Arrington	Arrington Racing	Dodge	323	1	running	120
17	23	84	Jody Ridley	Robert McEntyre (Owner)	Buick	320		running	112
18	33	74	Bobby Wawak	Wawak Racing	Buick	320		running	109
19	35	8	Bobby Hillin Jr.	Hillin Racing	Buick	318		running	106
20	36	86	Darryl Sage	Sage Racing	Chevrolet	318		running	103
21	31	26	Ronnie Hopkins	Henderson Motorsports	Buick	315		running	100
22	37	36	H.B. Bailey	Bailey Racing	Pontiac	315		running	97
23	13	64	Tommy Gale	Langley-Woodfield Racing	Ford	312		running	94
24	41	41	Ronnie Thomas	Ronnie Thomas Racing	Pontiac	311		running	91
25	4	22	Bobby Allison	DiGard Motorsports	Buick	303		engine	88
26	39	03	Eddie Bierschwale	B & B Racing	Buick	289		engine	85
27	40	57	Ken Ragan	Branch-Ragan Racing	Buick	281		accident	82
28	25	80	Bob Senneker	Terry Marra (Owner)	Pontiac	277		accident	0
29	27	6	Jim Sauter	Ulrich Racing	Chevrolet	275		accident	76
30	3	9	Bill Elliott	Melling Racing	Ford	272		engine	73
31	28	17	Sterling Marlin	Hamby Racing	Chevrolet	270		accident	70
32	38	52	Jimmy Means	Jimmy Means Racing	Buick	270		accident	67
33	8	15	Dale Earnhardt	Bud Moore Engineering	Ford	246	34	engine	69
34	18	18	Slick Johnson	Satterfield Racing	Buick	242		running	61
35	21	7	Kyle Petty	Petty Enterprises	Pontiac	204	1	oil pump	63
36	34	19	J.D. McDuffie	Gray Racing	Buick	177		broken valve	55
37	30	54	David Simko	Simko Racing	Oldsmobile	154		engine	52
38	10	14	A.J. Foyt	A.J. Foyt Racing	Chevrolet	139		broken valve	0
39	32	24	Jim Vandiver	Gordon Racing	Chrysler	79		accident	0
40	7	11	Darrell Waltrip	Junior Johnson & Associates	Chevrolet	40		engine	43
41	1	88	Geoff Bodine	Cliff Stewart Racing	Pontiac	18	16	broken valve	45

Lap leaders

#	Driver	Led	Share	Fin
1	Neil Bonnett	83	25.3%	P2
2	Cale Yarborough	78	23.8%	P1
3	Richard Petty	76	23.2%	P5
4	Dale Earnhardt	34	10.4%	P33
5	Dick Brooks	18	5.5%	P6
6	Geoff Bodine	16	4.9%	P41
7	Benny Parsons	11	3.4%	P14
8	Joe Ruttman	10	3.0%	P4
9	Buddy Arrington	1	0.3%	P16
10	Kyle Petty	1	0.3%	P35

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