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LA Times/Budweiser 500

Sunday, August 28, 1983


Track:   Riverside, CA   Track Type:   Road Course
Race Distance:   500 Miles   Lap Distance:   3.300 Miles
Pole Pos.:   Teo Fabi 130.712 mph   Margin of Victory:   28.000 sec.
  Rank   SP   Car   Driver   Chassis   Q.Time   Laps   Reason
              Sponsor   Engine   Q.Spd.  
 
  1   4   2   Bobby Rahal   March 83C   1:32.059   95   2:45:28 113.678
  Red Roof Inns/Cribari   CoswTC   129.048 mph  
  2   1   33   Teo Fabi   March 83C   1:30.887   95   2:45:56 113.359
  Forsythe/Skoal Bandit   CoswTC   130.712 mph  
  3   8   12   John Paul, Jr   PC-10   1:33.575   95   Finished 112.996
  VDS   CoswTC   126.957 mph  
  4   2   17   Al Unser, Jr   Eagle 83   1:31.707   94   Flagged
  Coors Light   CoswTC   129.543 mph  
  5   14   5   Tom Sneva   March 83C   1:35.553   93   Flagged
  Texaco Star   CoswTC   124.329 mph  
  6   27   48   Tom Klausler   DB-6   : .   90   Flagged
  Mercedes Leasing   Chevy      
  7   19   21   Pancho Carter   March 82C   1:38.091   89   Flagged
  Alex Foods Pinata   CoswTC   121.112 mph  
  8   17   10   Tony, Jr Bettenhausen   March 83C   1:36.454   88   Flagged
  Provimi Veal   CoswTC   123.168 mph  
  9   11   9   Roger Mears   PC-10   1:34.132   84   Flagged
  Machinists Union   CoswTC   126.206 mph  
  10   13   20   Danny Ongais   March 83C   1:34.989   76   Engine
  STP/Sea Ray Boats   CoswTC   125.067 mph  
  11   16   7   Al Unser   PC-11   1:35.928   75   Transmission
  Hertz   CoswTC   123.843 mph  
  12   26   46   Jerry Karl   PC-9   2:08.468   74   Flagged
  Refuse Fuel   CoswTC   92.474 mph  
  13   12   30   Howdy Holmes   March 83C   1:34.610   68   Broken header
  Domino's Pizza   CoswTC   125.568 mph  
  14   24   34   Desiree Wilson   March 83C   1:41.146   66   Transmission
  Wysard/Kreepy Krauly   CoswTC   117.454 mph  
  15   21   64   Greg Leffler   Eagle 82   1:39.353   57   Broken suspension
  Jet Engineering   Chevy   119.574 mph  
  16   3   3   Mario Andretti   Lola T-700   1:31.757   57   Transmission
  Newman-Haas Budweiser   CoswTC   129.472 mph  
  17   22   56   Steve Chassey   Eagle 82   1:39.959   57   Rear end
  Genesee Beer Wagon   Chevy   118.849 mph  
  18   5   99   Geoff Brabham   March 83P   1:32.794   49   Turbo charger
  Kraco Car Stereo   CoswTC   127.794 mph  
  19   9   1   Rick Mears   PC-10B   1:33.615   41   Transmission
  Pennzoil   CoswTC   126.903 mph  
  20   10   55   Josele Garza   PC-10   1:33.620   33   Suspension
  Machinists/Mark C. Bloome   CoswTC   126.896 mph  
  21   7   6   Kevin Cogan   March 83C   1:33.387   33   Transmission
  Master Mechanic/Caesar's   CoswTC   127.213 mph  
  22   15   72   Chris Kneifel   Primus   1:35.672   23   Transmission
  C. F. I.   CoswTC   124.174 mph  
  23   25   38   Phil Caliva   McLaren   1:46.196   21   Fueling problem
  Mitchell Engr/John Malloy   Chevy   111.869 mph  
  24   18   18   Mike Mosley   March 83C   1:37.474   18   Clutch
  Kraco Car Stereo   CoswTC   121.879 mph  
  25   20   22   Dick Simon   Eagle 83   1:38.905   11   Wrecked
  Vermont-American   CoswTC   120.115 mph  
  26   23   47   Bob Ward   Eagle 82   1:40.571   7   Transmission
  Arizona Intl Traveler   CoswTC   118.126 mph  
  27   6   66   Pete Halsmer   PC-10   1:33.383   6   Engine
  Arciero Racing   CoswTC   127.218 mph  

Race Information

  1) Yellow Flags: 1-2 Leffler spun, oil 13-16 Simon wreck, Turn 6

Lap Leaders

  Driver Total Laps Led
  John Paul, Jr 3 35-37
  Mario Andretti 18 15-25,46-49,55-57
  Bobby Rahal 21 75-95
  Teo Fabi 26 1-3,26,50-54,58-74
  Al Unser, Jr 27 4-14,27-34,38-45
Data prepared by Phil Harms - Page created by Omega Timing - All rights reserved

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