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The ''1983 Like Cola 500'', the 10th running of the event, was a NASCAR Winston Cup Series racing event held on July 24, 1983, at Pocono International Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Like Cola, the sponsor of the race, was an unsuccessful cola soft drink that was distributed and sold through the United States of America from 1982 to approximately 1985. Only manual transmission vehicles were allowed to participate in this race; a policy that NASCAR has retained to the present day. ==Summary== Out of 42 drivers who tried to qualify for this event; 40 managed to qualify. John Callis and Jimmy Walker are the two drivers who failed to qualify for the race. With the exception of Canadian-born Trevor Boys, the grid was born in the United States of America. Clark Dwyer managed to receive the last-place finish due to an oil pressure issue on lap 6 in this 200-lap extravaganza. Pontiac and Buick vehicles made up the majority of the racing grid. Bobby Wawak would be the lowest-finishing driver to complete the event while Morgan Shepherd's attempt at a "top ten" finish would be sabotaged by a problematic engine on lap 193.〔(''1983 Like Cola 500'' ) racing information at Racing Reference〕 While Tim Richmond and Darrell Waltrip would dominate the opening laps of this event, the closing laps would see Bill Elliott, Dave Marcis and Tim Richmond exchange the first-place position during the closing laps. Richmond would eventually best Waltrip by almost two seconds in front of a live audience of 65,000 spectators driving in a used Pontiac LeMans machine as opposed to the newer Pontiac Grand Prix model. Other notable drivers in this event included Kyle Petty, J.D. McDuffie, Sterling Marlin, Benny Parsons and Buddy Arrington.〔 Bobby Gerhart and Glenn Jarrett managed to collide into each other in a manner that would rip the entire rear end off of Gerhart's vehicle on lap 25. The average speeds for this vehicles in this event was while pole position winner Tim Richmond was practically sailing through the turns at speeds up to during the solo qualifying runs.〔 Individual race earnings varied from the winner's portion of $27,430 ($ when adjusted for inflation) to the last-place finisher's portion of $1,100 ($ when adjusted for inflation). NASCAR officials authorized a grand total of $246,500 to be awarded to all qualifying drivers for this racing event ($ when adjusted for inflation).〔(Winnings information for the ''1983 Like Cola 500'' ) at Fantasy Racing Cheat Sheet〕 After this event, the racing never got super-competitive at Pocono Raceway until the July 1995 running of the Miller Genuine Draft 500. Glenn Jarrett would retire from NASCAR Cup Series racing after racing here.〔(''1983 Like Cola 500'' ) racing information at Race Database〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1983 Like Cola 500」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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