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Race Entry List

NASCAR Cup Series

Busch 500

Bristol Motor Speedway

August 27th, 1983

Race #21 of the 1983 NASCAR Cup Series Season

  • Laps Scheduled: 500
  • Drivers Entered: 29
  • Makes
    • Buick (7)
    • Chevrolet (8)
    • Chrysler (1)
    • Ford (4)
    • Pontiac (9)
  • Last Bristol Motor Speedway race (Valleydale 500)
    • Pole: (-- mph)
    • Winner:
#23 NASCAR Next Gen car
Concord, North Carolina - October 11th, 2021: Bubba Wallace, driver of the #23 Next Gen car drives during the NASCAR Cup Series test at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. Photo by Bob Leverone | Getty Images
Car # Driver Hometown Make Sponsor Team Crew Chief
02 Mike Potter Pontiac Reeder Racing Bud Reeder
11 Darrell Waltrip Franklin, TN Chevrolet Pepsi / Burger King Junior Johnson
15 Dale Earnhardt Kannapolis, NC Ford Wrangler Bud Moore
17 Sterling Marlin Columbia, TN Pontiac Hesco Exhaust Roger Hamby
18 Don Satterfield Buick Satterfield Racing Leon Satterfield
2 Morgan Shepherd Conover, NC Buick ACM Equipment Sales Jim Stacy
22 Bobby Allison Buick Miller High Life DiGard
26 Ronnie Hopkins Chevrolet Food Country USA Charlie Henderson
27 Tim Richmond Pontiac Old Milwaukee Raymond Beadle
3 Ricky Rudd Chesapeake, VA Chevrolet Piedmont Airlines Richard Childress
33 Harry Gant Buick Skoal Bandit Hal Needham
41 Ronnie Thomas Pontiac McCord Gaskets Ronnie Thomas
43 Richard Petty Pontiac STP Petty Enterprises
44 Terry Labonte Corpus Christi, TX Chevrolet Budweiser Billy Hagan
45 John McFadden Buick McFadden Racing John McFadden
47 Ron Bouchard Buick Race Hill Farm Jack Beebe
48 Trevor Boys Calgary, Alberta Canada Chevrolet Hylton-McCaig James Hylton
52 Jimmy Means Chevrolet Broadway Motors Jimmy Means
6 Al Elmore Buick Ulrich Racing D.K. Ulrich
64 Tommy Gale Ford Sunny King Ford & Honda Elmo Langley
67 Buddy Arrington Chrysler Arrington Racing Buddy Arrington
7 Kyle Petty Trinity, NC Pontiac 7-Eleven Petty Enterprises
70 JD McDuffie Pontiac McDuffie Racing J.D. McDuffie
71 Dave Marcis Wausau, WI Chevrolet Hudson Dave Marcis
75 Neil Bonnett Chevrolet Hodgdon RahMoc Enterprises
88 Geoff Bodine Chemung, NY Pontiac Gatorade Cliff Stewart
9 Bill Elliott Dawsonville, GA Ford Melling Oil Pumps Harry Melling
90 Dick Brooks Ford Chameleon Sunglasses Junie Donlavey
98 Joe Ruttman Upland, CA Pontiac Levi Garrett Ron Benfield