Budweiser 400
June 5th 1983
Riverside Intl Raceway
1 Ricky Rudd
2 Bill Elliot
3 Harry Gant
4 Dale Earnhardt
5 Dick Brooks
6 Kyle Petty
7 Darrell Waltrip
8 Morgon Shepherd
9 Bill Schmidt
10 Richard Petty
11 Jim Robinson
12 Dave Marcis
13 Neal Bonnett
14 Glen Francis
15 Summer McKnight
16 D.K. Ulrich
17 Buddy Arrington
18 Jimmy Means
19 Bob Kennedy
20 Don Waterman
21 Stephen Wheeler
22 Bobby Allison
23 Jim Brown
24 J.D. Mcduffie
25 Sterling Marlin
26 Hershel McGriff
27 Rick McCray
28 Tim Richmond
29 Geoff Bodine
30 Scott Miller
31 Terry Labonte
32 Trevor Boys
33 Ronnie Thomas
34 Joe Ruttman
35 Ron Esau
36 RandyBecker
37 Pat Mintey
Time Of Race: 2 hours, 49 minutes, 35 seconds
Average Speed : 88.063 mph
Margin Of Victory: 7 seconds
Quotes of Interest: 04-15-03 " I'm not really sure how the race unfolded or how we won it.
I remember driving Richard Childress' car out there and that was
Richard's first win as a car owner also, so it was a big day for us.
I remember, just to show you how far things have come,
there really wasn't an official Victory Lane. We were trying to
do the Victory Lane stuff and TV was trying to get there, but
they didn't have enough cable to get down where they had Victory
Lane set up, so that gives you an idea of how much things
have changed since then. It was a big day for us. I've always
liked going to California and racing. As a kid, we raced go-karts
but primarily raced them on the east coast, so I was real excited
when we got a chance to race in California the first time. That was
actually back at the old Ontario Speedway in '77, but the win
came at Riverside in '83 and that really
changed my whole career after that."
