|| *Comments on the 1983 Winston Western 500:* View the most recent comment <#45> | Post a comment <#post> Tweet 1. Tim Seay posted: 01.17.2005 - 7:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bill Elliott grabs his 1st career win on a rain soaked road course. Bill Elliott and gang had finished 2nd several times before notching that 1st victory. Bill's 1st victory came on my 15th birthday. 2. Matt posted: 01.03.2006 - 6:16 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bobby Allison wraps up the lone Winston Cup title of his long and glorious career. 3. CanucksAndNASCAR Fan posted: 05.19.2006 - 8:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) But if there was a chase in 1983, Bobby Allison wouldn't have a championship. Darrell Waltrip would have won his third in a row, but by the slimmest of margins. And guess who would have finished second in the chase in those three years? That's right: Bobby Allison. 4. TTE posted: 01.08.2007 - 6:02 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) But for a spin, Benny Parsons would've won this one. I was sitting in the esses, and the way he flung that car around was nothing short of incredible. 5. WillG46 posted: 07.30.2007 - 4:02 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bill Elliott wins his first race after finishing 2nd 8 times. 6. Darrell posted: 08.25.2007 - 7:03 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Why did DiGard need a start and park driver? They couldn't have been low on money. 7. SK posted: 08.26.2007 - 10:28 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DiGard had Insolo start-and-park the car for the same reason Richard Childress had Neil Bonnett do the same in the finale 10 years later...just further security to keep their primary driver from losing the championship. 8. most posted: 08.29.2007 - 11:15 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I love the start and park, don't forget about Hendrick and Purvis in 1995 9. RaceFanX posted: 12.10.2007 - 1:54 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jimmy Insolo's start and park was his 29th and last career start, along the way he scored 4 top 5s and 8 top 10s 10. myself posted: 02.21.2008 - 12:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) In a rare positive statement about Booby Allison....I'm glad he won the 83' title. 11. most posted: 03.24.2008 - 9:06 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) you actually make a rare positive statement.... and you call him Booby, lol. 12. Temiree posted: 03.29.2008 - 11:33 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Bill Elliot's only road course win. 13. Willy on Wheels posted: 05.16.2008 - 8:24 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Jeff Purvis's start-and-park race for Hendrick, he actually finished higher than Jeff Gordon 14. Clayton posted: 06.09.2008 - 10:13 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Awesome Bill's first of 44 career wins!! He is the man!! Bobby Allison's first career title!! A GREAT driver, who finally got his first title! Kevin Harvick did the same thing in the truck series in 2007 with Scott Wimmer, for Ron Hornaday. Hornaday won, IDK where Wimmer ended up! 15. Anonymous posted: 08.20.2008 - 8:17 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) last non-rcr cup start for dale earnhardt 16. Willy on Wheels posted: 09.06.2008 - 9:41 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) JD Stacy's team's last start 17. Steve posted: 01.20.2009 - 3:44 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Good riddance to bad rubbish! J.D. Stacy had no business in Winston Cup! Neither did Bobby Ginn. Investors are a terrible thing in NASCAR (a major part of what makes it NA$CAR). They come in with promise and buttloads of cash and leave when they get bored or impatient, leaving talented drivers and crew members marooned. But at least George Gillett is sticking with it. 18. Anonymous posted: 08.02.2010 - 7:10 pm Rate this comment: (1) (6) Wow, some of you are actually taking the time to go back and see what would have happened if the chase had been around? Good god you're stupider than Brian France and Mike Helton combined. Idiots. So much for the so called "moderators" here. 19. martin-n-rusty posted: 10.29.2010 - 7:52 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) "But at least George Gillett is sticking with it." oops 20. Anonymous posted: 11.30.2010 - 4:06 pm Rate this comment: (1) (1) "18. Anonymous posted: 08.02.10 - 7:10 pm Wow, some of you are actually taking the time to go back and see what would have happened if the chase had been around? Good god you're stupider than Brian France and Mike Helton combined. Idiots. So much for the so called "moderators" here." u mad bro? 21. The Great Dave posted: 08.31.2011 - 6:23 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) DNQ #6 Bobby Hillin #37 Dan Noble 22. CBASS posted: 12.13.2012 - 2:26 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Some sponsor updates #11 Pepsi #64 Sunny King Ford-Honda #55 Copenhagen "Cope" Car #43 STP Oil Treatment 23. Terry Maynard posted: 01.16.2013 - 4:10 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) J.D. Stacy had sold the Dutch shipbuilding company Rijn-Schelde-Verolme on a new invention he had called the Thin Steam Miner. They pumped millions into the idea. They were being subsidized by Dutch government because they had suffered from the Oil Crisis of 1973 and afterwards lost money in several projects they had been involved in. The government wanted to keep them in operation for fear of the economic impact it would have if they went out of business. Stacy never produced a single Thin Steam Miner and apparently all the money he was getting was to buy race teams and plaster his name on the sides of other peoples race cars. He was filtering the money trough his business named MMWOPS which was said to stand for Making Money While Other People Sleep. Word got back to the Dutch government and Rijn-Schelde-Verolme what was going on and they cut off his money. Rijn-Schelde-Verolme went bankrupt in 1983 and shortly thereafter J.D. Stacy was gone from Nascar. 24. Jim4Bill posted: 01.22.2013 - 1:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Can't think of a better way to spend bilked cash than on racing! 25. 83andJoe posted: 09.16.2013 - 11:31 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Wasn't Hillin running his usual #8? 26. pimmy posted: 01.11.2014 - 5:55 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Some more DNQs: #1 - Mark Perry #02 - St. James Davis #8 - Steve Pfeifer #17 - Harry Goularte #58 - Tony Settember #94 - Bob Kennedy 27. RaceFanX posted: 02.20.2014 - 10:18 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Sterling Marlin and Trevor Boys battle for record of the year comes down to the last race of the year with the Canadian Boys leading coming into the final race by something like 16 points. Marlin came from behind to claim the honor after scoring a top-20 finish while mechanical problems in this final race doomed Boys' hopes. 28. saltsburgtrojanfan posted: 12.22.2014 - 2:27 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Caution 1: Lap 34-36: debris Caution 2: Lap 62-68: #70 stopped on track Caution 3: Lap 83-93: rain Caution 4: Lap 113-114: rain Caution 5: Lap 117-119: rain 29. Dave posted: 04.08.2015 - 3:40 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) People say it's dumb to see who would of won titles back in the day with the chase but it's actually kinda neat. The chase system has been changed, yet again since the 2006 post and using the current chase format Neil Bonnett would have won the 1983 championship. He, DW, Labonte, & Petty woul have been the "final 4" and with 2 points now going to the driver who leads the most laps and DW finishing 3 spots behind Bonnet, Bonnet would have won by a single point. Everyone has their opinion but for me it's pretty neat to look at 30. Matt J posted: 04.25.2016 - 9:39 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Buddy Arrington is listed here as driving a Dodge Mirada. I think he might have actually been driving a Chrysler Cordoba. Check out this part of the TV broadcast when he loses a wheel near the end: https://youtu.be/SxUTJF9IN6E?t=458 The car's grill is a little wider but not as tall as a Mirada, it looks more like a Cordoba's. This is not the Cordoba, though, that he occasionally ran that had the side windows behind the b-pillar covered over, like a 70's Charger. 31. Eric posted: 06.23.2017 - 5:10 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) This was the race weekend that someone put sugar into Bobby Allison's gas tank. 32. RaceFanX posted: 07.31.2017 - 4:34 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) This was Elliott's only road course win but he was pretty good when the course got twisty. He had four top-5s here at Riverside, three at Sonoma, and three at Watkins Glen; the latter being the site of his only NASCAR Busch series win. Outside of NASCAR he also had a GTO class win at the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1987. 33. kup posted: 11.15.2017 - 1:34 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) UPS: universal points system. Driver's UPoints = Miles / Aver.Finish 1983 UPS _ Driver = Miles / AF 1647 _ Bobby Allison 11526 / 7.0 1370 _ Darrell Waltrip 10546 / 7.7 1186 _ Bill Elliott 11271 / 9.5 1000 _ Richard Petty 10696 / 10.7 850 _ Neil Bonnett 10451 / 12.3 808 _ Terry Labonte 9774 / 12.1 723 _ Harry Gant 10193 / 14.1 648 _ Ricky Rudd 9907 / 15.3 585 _ Dale Earnhardt 8946 / 15.3 524 _ Dave Marcis 9171 / 17.5 & TOTAL: UPS! 35 years 1949-1983: Richard Petty 7 in: '63, '64, '67, '71, '72, '75, '79. Lee Petty 5 in: '50, '52, '54, '58, '59. David Pearson 4 in: '66, '68, '69, '76. Cale Yarborough 3 in: '74, '77, '78. Bobby Allison 3 in: '81, '82, '83. Buck Baker 2 in: '56, '57. Rex White 2 in: '60, '61. Bill Blair 1 in: '49. Fonty Flock 1 in: '51. Herb Thomas 1 in: '53. Tim Flock 1 in: '55. Joe Weatherly 1 in: '62. Ned Jarrett 1 in: '65. Bobby Isaac 1 in: '70. Benny Parsons 1 in: '73. Dale Earnhardt 1 in: '80. 34. Brandon posted: 04.01.2018 - 1:26 am Rate this comment: (2) (0) A total of 7 manufacturers raced in the 30 races in 1983, here is how many races each showed up to. Buick: 30 Chevrolet; 30 Chrysler: 26 Dodge: 15 Ford: 30 Oldsmobile: 13 Pontiac: 30 35. RaceFanX posted: 05.09.2018 - 10:52 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Ricky Rudd starts on the front row but retires from the lead with a blown engine in his last outing for Richard Childress in the #3 Piedmont Airlines Chevrolet. Dale Earnhardt of course replaced him in the #3 for 1984 and brought his sponsorship over from Wrangler Jeans as Piedmont Airlines moved over to Billy Hagen's team for 1984 with Terry Laborite. Rudd moved over to Bud Moore's team to replace Earnhardt...with the #15 Ford also being sponsored by Wrangler Jeans in 1984. 36. RaceFanX posted: 05.09.2018 - 10:53 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Dale Earnhardt's last Cup race in a Ford sees him bring Bud Moore's #15 Wrangler Thunderbird home with a top-5 finish. From here on out he only drove Chevrolets in Winston Cup competition. 37. RaceFanX posted: 08.12.2018 - 8:20 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) Bill Elliott scored his first win on a road course. Just under 35 years later his son Chase Elliott also scored his first Cup win on a road course, winning at Watkins Glen in 2018. Bill Elliott won this race driving an 1982 Ford Thunderbird as opposed to the slicker 1983 model, the team used an older car they ran on road courses and short tracks this season. Awesome Bill actually still has the car he won this race with. After this race it was rebodied into a newer Thunderbird and used as a show car after this event but he is now restoring it back into an older 1982 T-Bird. 38. jensenators posted: 04.14.2019 - 10:01 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Updates based on watching on Youtube: TO THE REAR: Car 55, Pitted before the green with an engine issue. 39. Jim posted: 04.29.2019 - 5:49 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) I LOVE THE OLD SHOEBOX 82 T=BIRD. 40. RaceFanX posted: 02.27.2020 - 11:59 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Both the Fords in the top-5 here were the old Shoebox T-Birds, Dale Earnhardt's last Blue Oval outing was also in a 1982 model. 41. SweetRich posted: 02.28.2020 - 10:12 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) The commentators for the race were Ken Squier and Cale Yarborough. The pit road reporters were Dick Berggren and Jim Roller. And in The STP Pit Communication Center was Dave Despain. 42. Anthony2 posted: 02.28.2020 - 11:58 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) Cale Yarborough won the next race after doing color commentary with Ken Squier for this race. 43. GuidoFan posted: 04.04.2020 - 11:35 pm Rate this comment: (0) (0) J.D. McDuffie's sponsor was Wilder's. 44. Canadianfan posted: 05.13.2020 - 2:00 am Rate this comment: (0) (0) Found a photo from this race on bakerracingpix. Buddy Arrington was in his Chrysler Cordoba not the Dodge Mirada. 45. zuel660 posted: 08.05.2020 - 4:43 pm Rate this comment: (1) (0) 4th win for Ford in '83, split 2 apiece between the square '82 model (Elliott here & Earnhardt at Nashville) & the sleek '83 model (Baker at Daytona & Earnhardt at Talladega). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Post a comment:* Your comment may not appear immediately - all comments must be approved by the moderator. Name: Comment: