Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Newsletter/201104

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter
Volume 1 · No. 10 · March 26, 2011 – April 25, 2011

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Project discussion • Project resources • Project Standards (discussion) • Project Category Structure (discussion) • Project Participants (discussion) • Project Assessment (discussion) • Recent Changes • Project Award • Popular Articles

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How to help WikiProject NASCAR

Please keep up with the discussions at our main talk page. Your input is needed!
Expand the articles in Category:NASCAR stubs.
Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Add content to the portal

Portal:NASCAR is a place where we can exhibit our best articles and most interesting free images. Any article which is FA, GA, High or Top importance can be added for display as a Selected article or as a Selected biography, free images can be added to be displayed asSelected pictures. All of these are chosen randomly for display on each page view to avoid both bias and having to manually update the page monthly. If you've created or seen an article or image that you feel would be a good addition to the portal, follow the instructions on the pages linked above. Please nominate it on the talk pages.

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Below is the NASCAR Picture of the month (found here). The picture has to be one uploaded in the last month.

It is exclusive to the Newsletter. REMEMBER, YOU CAN VOTE.

Article developments

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts

NASCAR articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA	4	5	11	2			22
B	31	57	52	10			150
C	20	37	35	13			105
Start	22	115	318	225			680
Stub	17	54	283	522			876
List		10	46	2			58
Category	1	2	4	11	121		139
Disambig		4	1	1	14		20
Portal	1				4		5
Project					9		9
Redirect			2		4		6
Template	2	15	8	4	39		68
NA		1					1
Assessed	98	300	760	790	191	0	2,139
Unassessed						2	2
Total	98	300	760	790	191	2	2,141

New Good Articles:
- 2011 Budweiser Shootout
Current Good Article Nominees:
New articles:

At this time, new articles are currently unavailable.

Article of the month – 2011 Budweiser Shootout, a new Good article

The 2011 Budweiser Shootout was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on February 12, 2011 at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. Contested over 75 laps, it was the first exhibition race of the 2011 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Kurt Busch for the Penske Racing team. Jamie McMurray finished second, and Ryan Newman clinched third. Pole position driver Dale Earnhardt, Jr. maintained his lead through the first corner, but Clint Bowyer, who started seventh on the grid, led the first lap. On the 25th lap, the first caution was given, as Jeff Burton became the leader. During the caution all the teams made a pit stop . Two laps later, an accident involving several racecars prompted the second caution to be given. On lap 63, Newman became the leader. He maintained the lead until the final lap, when Denny Hamlin passed him below the yellow line (out of bounds line), as Busch passed him on the other side. Hamlin passed Newman below the yellow line giving the win to Kurt Busch. There were four cautions and 28 lead changes among ten different drivers throughout the course of the race. It was Busch's first win in the 2011 season, as well as his first win at a track that uses restrictor plates, such as Daytona International Speedway and Talladega Superspeedway. A total of 80,000 people attended the race, while 7.8 million watched it on television. (More...)

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