Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Newsletter/201105

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter
Volume 1 · No. 11 · April 26, 2011 – May 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

Current contributors

Nascar1996 (talk · contribs)
Wayne Slam (talk · contribs)

New members

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.

Images

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.

The Daytona International Speedway during February 2006 Speedweeks.

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	321	230			688
Stub	17	54	286	529			886
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	766	802	191	0	2,157
Total	98	300	766	802	191	0	2,158

New Good Articles:
Current Good Article Nominees:
- 2011 Daytona 500
New articles:

Article of the month – 2011 Subway Fresh Fit 500

The 2011 Subway Fresh Fit 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on February 27, 2011 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. Contested over 312 laps, it was the second race of the 2011 season. The race was won by Jeff Gordon for the Hendrick Motorsports team. Kyle Busch finished second, and Jimmie Johnson clinched third. Pole position driver Carl Edwards maintained his lead on the first lap to begin the race, as Kurt Busch, who started in the second position on the grid, remained behind him. On the 29th lap, the first caution was given because of debris. Forty-eight laps later, a multiple car accident occurred, which involved 13 drivers. Afterward, several lead changes, and four more cautions occurred. With nine laps remaining, Gordon passed Kyle Busch for the first position. Gordon maintained the lead to win his first race of the season, and his first in more than 60 races. There were eight cautions and 29 lead changes among 12 different drivers throughout the course of the race, Gordon's first win of the season. The result moved Gordon to the sixth position in the Drivers' Championship. He remained 15 points behind first place driver Kyle Busch and one ahead of Bobby Labonte in seventh. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Toyota, Ford and Chevrolet had twelve points, four points ahead of Dodge. A total of 75,000 people attended the race, while 10.36 million watched it on television. (More...)

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