1983 Like Cola 500
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| Race 18 of 30 in the 1983 NASCAR Winston Cup Series season | |||
Pocono Raceway, the race track where the race was held.
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| Date | July 24, 1983 | ||
| Official name | Like Cola 500 | ||
| Location | Pocono International Raceway, Long Pond, Pennsylvania | ||
| Course | Permanent racing facility 2.500 mi (3.400 km) |
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| Distance | 200 laps, 501.0 mi (804 km) | ||
| Weather | Mild with temperatures reaching up to 75.9 °F (24.4 °C); wind speeds up to 8 miles per hour (13 km/h) | ||
| Average speed | 114.818 miles per hour (184.782 km/h) | ||
| Attendance | 65,000 | ||
| Pole position | |||
| Driver | Blue Max Racing | ||
| Most laps led | |||
| Driver | Bobby Allison | DiGard Motorsports | |
| Laps | 56 | ||
| Winner | |||
| No. 27 | Tim Richmond | Blue Max Racing | |
| Television in the United States | |||
| Network | ESPN | ||
| Announcers |
Bob Jenkins Larry Nuber |
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Coordinates: 41°03′19″N 75°30′41″W / 41.05539°N 75.51152°W
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.
Pocono Raceway is one of six superspeedways to hold NASCAR races; the others are Daytona International Speedway, Michigan International Speedway, Auto Club Speedway, Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. The standard track at Pocono Raceway is a three-turn superspeedway that is 2.5 miles (4.0 km) long. The track's turns are banked differently; the first is banked at 14°, the second turn at 8° and the final turn with 6°. However, each of the three straightaways are banked at 2°.
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