The 1983 Firecracker 400 was a Winston Cup Series (now Nextel Cup) event held at Daytona International Speedway on July 4, 1983. Buddy Baker led forty-five laps in route to his nineteenth and final career victory, holding off Morgan Shepherd by twenty-nine seconds. Points leader Bobby Allison rode to 14th to maintain a 212-point championship lead on Darrell Waltrip(20th). Stats