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WPF1 Newsletter (December)

The WikiProject Formula One Newsletter Year V · Issue 12 · December 3, 2012 – December 31, 2012 Previous month's issue
New users New members – Daniels Renault Sport (talk · contribs) (December 13) New recipients – New editors – WikiProject news Check out Apterygial's My Insane Idea userproject, which aims to improve the 2008 Formula One season article and that season's Grands Prix to Featured Topic status. Newsletter news Both Midgrid and Cs-wolves are retiring from their editorship of the newsletter. If anyone is interested in taking over, please join the discussion at WT:F1.	Article developments Formula One articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total FA 3 3 7 13 FL 2 4 1 7 A 2 2 GA 3 6 10 6 25 B 19 27 40 50 136 C 7 36 45 100 188 Start 15 102 186 727 1,030 Stub 18 130 1,548 1 1,697 List 1 6 18 4 29 Category 526 526 Disambig 8 8 File 2 2 Portal 35 35 Project 67 67 Redirect 20 20 Template 185 185 NA 42 42 Assessed 50 202 439 2,435 886 1 4,013 Unassessed 4 4 Total 50 202 439 2,435 886 5 4,017 See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Formula One/Article alerts Current Good Article Nominees – 2012 Formula One season
Editors' Comment Users are always welcome to help us with this newsletter. If you are interested, please leave a message on an existing editor's talkpage or sign up on the "Contributors" list of the central newsletter page, and we will tell you everything you need to know and answer your questions. Current contributors – Midgrid (talk · contribs) Cs-wolves (talk · contribs) Chubbennaitor (talk · contribs) How to help WPF1 – Expand the articles in Category:Formula One stubs. Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks: Article requests: Daniele Coronna, Hans Fouche, Chris Radage, Steve Tarrant, Intertechnique, Elf Masters (fr) Copyedit: Bahrain Grand Prix, History of Formula One, Monaco Grand Prix, 2006 San Marino Grand Prix, Rob White (Formula One), Rob Smedley Expand: F1-X Dubai, Honda RA271, Paddy Lowe, Red Bull RB3, Spyker F1, Toyota TF107, BMW Sauber F1.07, Mario Theissen, Franz Tost, Chinese Grand Prix, Colin Kolles, Concorde Agreement, Formula One Constructors Association, McLaren MP4/1, Ove Andersson, Bob Bell, Korea International Circuit, Grand Prix Drivers' Association, Spyker F8-VII, Arai (company), Shoei, Schuberth Helme GmbH, Bell Racing Company, Jim Bamber, Nazir Hoosein, Formula One video games, Make Cars Green, Jonathan Legard, Michael Turner (illustrator) more Update: History of Formula One, 2011 Brazilian Grand Prix, Robert Doornbos, Formula One regulations, 2024 Formula One season, Scuderia Toro Rosso, Super Aguri F1, Divina Galica, Grand Prix World Championship Images needed: Max Mosley, Sakon Yamamoto, Jordan Grand Prix circa 1992-1997, Paddy Lowe, 2008 Turkish Grand Prix more For more work, see this generated list or the Auxiliary list
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Article of the month – 2012 Formula One season, current Good Article nominee The 2012 Formula One season was the 63rd season of the Formula One World Championship, a motor racing championship for Formula One cars recognised by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) — the governing body of motorsport — as the highest class of competition for open-wheel racing cars. The season was contested over twenty rounds, which started in Australia on 18 March and ended in Brazil on 25 November. The 2012 season saw the return of the United States Grand Prix, which was held at the Circuit of the Americas, a purpose-built circuit in Austin, Texas. After being cancelled in 2011 due to civil protests, the Bahrain Grand Prix also returned to the calendar. The early season was tumultuous, with seven different drivers winning the first seven races of the championship; a record for the series. It was not until the European Grand Prix in June that a driver, Ferrari's Fernando Alonso, won his second race of the year, and with it, emerged as a championship contender. Alonso maintained his hold on the championship lead for the next seven races, taking his third win in Germany and finishing on the podium in the United Kingdom, Italy and Singapore. However, costly first-lap retirements in Belgium and Japan allowed his rivals to catch up, and defending World Champion Sebastian Vettel — like Alonso, a two-time winner — took the lead in the sixteenth race of the season. Vettel, too, encountered difficulties throughout the season; contact with a backmarker left him to finish outside the points in Malaysia, while alternator failures at the European and Italian Grands Prix cost him valuable points and exclusion from qualifying in Abu Dhabi led him to start from the pit lane. Vettel entered the final race of the season with a thirteen-point lead over Alonso. Alonso needed a podium finish to stand any chance of becoming World Drivers' Champion, but in a race of attrition that finished under the safety car, Vettel finished in sixth place, scoring enough points to win his third consecutive championship, becoming the third driver to do so. In the World Constructors' Championship, Red Bull Racing secured their third consecutive title when Sebastian Vettel finished second at the United States Grand Prix. In addition to seeing seven drivers win the first seven races, the 2012 season broke several records. The calendar for the season included twenty races, breaking the previous record of nineteen, which was first set in 2005. Six current or former World Drivers' Champions — Sebastian Vettel, Fernando Alonso, Jenson Button, Lewis Hamilton, Kimi Räikkönen, and Michael Schumacher — started the season, breaking the record of five established in 1970. (More...)
2013 Teams and Races From 2013 Formula One season 2013 Teams Team Constructor Drivers Car Infiniti Red Bull Racing Red Bull Sebastian Vettel Red Bull RB9 Mark Webber Scuderia Ferrari Ferrari Fernando Alonso TBA Felipe Massa Vodafone McLaren Mercedes McLaren Jenson Button McLaren MP4-28 Sergio Pérez Lotus F1 Lotus Kimi Räikkönen TBA Romain Grosjean Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team Mercedes Lewis Hamilton Mercedes F1 W04 Nico Rosberg Sauber F1 Team Sauber Nico Hülkenberg Sauber C32 Esteban Gutiérrez Sahara Force India F1 Team Force India TBA Force India VJM06 TBA Williams F1 Team Williams Pastor Maldonado Williams FW35 Valtteri Bottas Scuderia Toro Rosso Toro Rosso Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso STR8 Jean-Éric Vergne Caterham F1 Team Caterham Charles Pic TBA TBA Marussia F1 Team Marussia Timo Glock Marussia MR02 Max Chilton 2013 Grands Prix Grand Prix Circuit Last Winner Date Australian Grand Prix Albert Park Grand Prix Circuit Jenson Button 17 March Malaysia Grand Prix Sepang International Circuit Fernando Alonso 24 March Chinese Grand Prix Shanghai International Circuit Nico Rosberg 14 April Bahrain Grand Prix Bahrain International Circuit Sebastian Vettel 21 April Gran Premio de España Circuit de Catalunya Pastor Maldonado 12 May Grand Prix de Monaco Circuit de Monaco Mark Webber 26 May Grand Prix du Canada Circuit Gilles Villeneuve Lewis Hamilton 9 June British Grand Prix Silverstone Circuit Mark Webber 30 June Großer Preis von Deutschland TBA Fernando Alonso 7 July TBA TBA N/A 21 July Magyar Nagydíj Hungaroring Lewis Hamilton 28 July Belgian Grand Prix Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps Jenson Button 25 August Gran Premio |d'Italia Autodromo Nazionale Monza Lewis Hamilton 8 September Singapore Grand Prix Marina Bay Street Circuit Sebastian Vettel 22 September Korean Grand Prix Korea International Circuit Sebastian Vettel 6 October Japanese Grand Prix Suzuka Circuit Sebastian Vettel 13 October Indian Grand Prix Buddh International Circuit Sebastian Vettel 27 October Abu Dhabi Grand Prix Yas Marina Circuit Kimi Räikkönen 3 November United States Grand Prix Circuit of the Americas Lewis Hamilton 17 November Grande Prêmio do Brasil Autódromo José Carlos Pace Jenson Button 24 November

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WP:NASCAR Newsletter (January 2013)

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume 3 · No. 7 –December 26, 2012 –January 25, 2013 Previous month's issue - Next month's issue
Project discussion • Project resources • Project Standards (discussion) • Project Category Structure (discussion) • Project Participants (discussion) • Project Assessment (discussion) • Recent Changes • Popular Articles
WikiProject News 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. Help expand and update everything relating to the 2012 season. Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Doug Cooper, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, Jack White (NASCAR), Reggie Ruggiero, Billy Nacewicz, Bugs Stevens Assess : See all here Cleanup : Days of Thunder, Rusty Wallace, NASCAR Thunder 2003, Bill Weber, Bobby Hillin, Jr. Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Mark Martin Expand : Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500 Maintain : 2024 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2024 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway Stubs : See all here Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations, 2008 Dickies 500, Frank Cicci Racing Other : More Portal Help 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 as Selected 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 articles or images on the talk pages.	Article Statistics NASCAR articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total GA 3 5 16 2 26 B 30 55 52 11 148 C 23 40 53 25 1 142 Start 26 121 414 407 7 975 Stub 17 57 298 606 8 986 List 12 53 2 67 Category 1 2 4 10 155 172 Disambig 4 1 1 14 20 Portal 1 4 5 Project 11 11 Redirect 2 101 103 Template 2 15 8 4 62 91 NA 1 1 Assessed 103 311 901 1,068 348 16 2,747 Total 103 311 901 1,068 348 16 2,747
Picture of the Month Chase Elliott in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East race at Rockingham Speedway, November 3, 2012.	Article Developments Current Good Article Nominees: 2010 Emory Healthcare 500 New articles: Christmas Abbott W. H. Atkinson Tony Glover (NASCAR) Barney Hall Roz Howard Ben Rhodes (racing driver) 2013 NASCAR Toyota Series season 2012 Racecar Euro Series 2013 Racecar Euro Series 1968 Southeastern 500 1969 Motor State 500 1982 Champion Spark Plug 400 2000 Daytona 250 2000 Winston 500 2004 Pepsi 400 2005 Pepsi 400 Did Not Finish See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts
Article of the month – Harley J. Earl Trophy, a Good Article The Harley J. Earl Trophy is the trophy presented to the winner of the premier, and season-opening, event of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR), the Daytona 500. It is named after influential automobile designer Harley Earl, who served as the second commissioner of NASCAR. Earl has been known as the so-called "father of the Corvette" and designer of the Firebird I prototype that adorns the trophy. The trophy is kept on display at the Daytona International Speedway, while a small replica is given to each Daytona 500 winner. (Read more...)
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WP:NASCAR Newsletter (February 2013)

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume 3 · No. 8 –January 26, 2013 –February 25, 2013 Previous month's issue - Next month's issue
Project discussion • Project resources • Project Standards (discussion) • Project Category Structure (discussion) • Project Participants (discussion) • Project Assessment (discussion) • Recent Changes • Popular Articles
WikiProject News New members: None 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. Help expand and update everything relating to the 2012 season. Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Doug Cooper, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, Jack White (NASCAR), Reggie Ruggiero, Billy Nacewicz, Bugs Stevens Assess : See all here Cleanup : Days of Thunder, Rusty Wallace, NASCAR Thunder 2003, Bill Weber, Bobby Hillin, Jr. Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Mark Martin Expand : Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500 Maintain : 2024 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2024 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway Stubs : See all here Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations, 2008 Dickies 500, Frank Cicci Racing Other : More Portal Help 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 as Selected 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 articles or images on the talk pages.	Article Statistics NASCAR articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total GA 3 5 17 2 27 B 30 55 51 11 147 C 23 40 54 26 143 Start 26 122 417 414 979 Stub 17 57 302 610 986 List 12 53 2 1 68 Category 1 2 4 10 157 174 Disambig 4 1 1 14 20 Portal 1 4 5 Project 11 11 Redirect 2 101 103 Template 2 15 8 4 64 93 NA 1 1 Assessed 103 312 909 1,080 352 1 2,757 Unassessed 1 1 Total 103 312 909 1,080 352 2 2,758
Picture of the Month Chris Cockrum, driving the No. 93 Chevrolet Silverado for RSS Racing, leaves the pits during the 2012 Good Sam Roadside Assistance Carolina 200 at Rockingham Speedway.	Article Developments New Good Articles: 2010 Emory Healthcare 500 New articles: Adam Alexander (sportscaster) Juan Carlos Blum Chris Buescher Brennan Newberry Chris Cockrum 2013 UNOH Battle At The Beach Kentucky 300 (NASCAR) List of members of the NASCAR Hall of Fame See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts
Article of the month – 2010 Emory Healthcare 500, a new Good Article The 2010 Emory Healthcare 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on September 5, 2010 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Georgia. Contested over 325 laps, it was the twenty-fifth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Tony Stewart, for the Stewart Haas Racing team. Carl Edwards finished second, and Jimmie Johnson, who started seventh, clinched third. Pole position driver Denny Hamlin maintained his lead on the first lap to begin the race, as Ryan Newman, who started in the second position remained behind him. Afterward, Newman became the leader. On lap 128, Hamlin had an engine failure, finishing forty-third. Later in the race Tony Stewart led a race high of seventy-five laps. Stewart retained the first position on a final restart to clinch his third win at Atlanta Motor Speedway. There were eight cautions and twenty-seven lead changes among nine different drivers throughout the course of the race. It was Tony Stewart's first win of the season and the thirty-eighth of his career. The result moved him up two spots to fourth in the Drivers' Championship, 283 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and fourteen ahead of Carl Edwards. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-two ahead of Toyota and sixty-six ahead of Ford, with eleven races remaining in the season. A total of 93,200 people attended the race, while 5.516 million watched it on television. (Read more...)
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WP:NASCAR Newsletter (March 2013)

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume 3 · No. 9 –February 26, 2013 –March 25, 2013 Previous month's issue - Next month's issue
Project discussion • Project resources • Project Standards (discussion) • Project Category Structure (discussion) • Project Participants (discussion) • Project Assessment (discussion) • Recent Changes • Popular Articles
WikiProject News New members: None. 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. Help expand and update everything relating to the 2013 season. Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Doug Cooper, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, Jack White (NASCAR), Reggie Ruggiero, Billy Nacewicz, Bugs Stevens Assess : See all here Cleanup : Days of Thunder, Rusty Wallace, NASCAR Thunder 2003, Bill Weber, Bobby Hillin, Jr. Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Mark Martin Expand : Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500 Maintain : 2024 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2024 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway Stubs : See all here Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations, 2008 Dickies 500, Frank Cicci Racing Other : More Portal Help 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 as Selected 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 articles or images on the talk pages.	Article Statistics NASCAR articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total GA 3 5 17 2 27 B 30 55 51 12 148 C 23 40 55 28 146 Start 26 122 417 415 1 981 Stub 17 57 305 612 991 List 12 53 2 1 68 Category 1 2 4 10 159 176 Disambig 4 1 1 15 21 Portal 1 4 5 Project 11 11 Redirect 2 101 103 Template 2 15 8 4 65 94 NA 1 1 Assessed 103 312 913 1,086 356 2 2,772 Unassessed 4 4 Total 103 312 913 1,086 356 6 2,776 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 26,587 Ω = 4.93
Picture of the Month Kyle Larson celebrates in his No. 6 Rev Racing Toyota after winning the 2012 NASCAR K&N Pro Series East championship.	Article Developments New articles: 1997 Mountain Dew Southern 500 1999 NAPA 500 2013 Auto Club 400 2013 DRIVE4COPD 300 2013 Food City 500 2013 STP Gas Booster 500 Pancho Alvarez Sherry Blakley Harrison Rhodes Kevin Ray Johnny Ray (racing driver) Dexter Stacey Kevin Swindell Toyota 120 See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts
Article of the month – Auto Club Speedway, a Good Article Auto Club Speedway (formerly California Speedway) is a two-mile (3 km), low-banked, D-shaped oval superspeedway in Fontana, California which has hosted NASCAR racing annually since 1997. The track was also used for open wheel racing events until 2005. The racetrack is located near the former locations of Ontario Motor Speedway and Riverside International Raceway. The track is owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation and is the only track owned by ISC to have naming rights sold. The speedway is served by the nearby Interstate 10 and Interstate 15 freeways as well as a Metrolink station located behind the backstretch. Construction of the track, on the site of the former Kaiser Steel Mill, began in 1995 and was completed in late 1996. The speedway has a grandstand capacity of 91,200 and 28 skyboxes. In 2006, a fanzone was added behind the main grandstand. Lights were added to the speedway in 2004 with the addition of a second annual NASCAR weekend. In 2011 and 2012 the track hosted only one NASCAR weekend. The IZOD Indycar Series returned to the track in 2012 with the season finale race (a 500 mile night race); it ran a 400 mile race from 2002–05 at the track. (Read more...)
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WP:NASCAR Newsletter (April 2013)

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume 3 · No. 10 –March 26, 2013 –April 25, 2013 Previous month's issue - Next month's issue
Project discussion • Project resources • Project Standards (discussion) • Project Category Structure (discussion) • Project Participants (discussion) • Project Assessment (discussion) • Recent Changes • Popular Articles
WikiProject News New members: None 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. Help expand and update everything relating to the 2013 season. Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Doug Cooper, Kelley Earnhardt Miller, Jack White (racing driver), Reggie Ruggiero, Billy Nacewicz, Bugs Stevens Assess : See all here Cleanup : Days of Thunder, Rusty Wallace, NASCAR Thunder 2003, Bill Weber, Bobby Hillin, Jr. Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Mark Martin Expand : Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500 Maintain : 2024 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2024 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway Stubs : See all here Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations, 2008 Dickies 500, Frank Cicci Racing Other : More Portal Help 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 as Selected 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 articles or images on the talk pages.	Article Statistics NASCAR articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total GA 3 5 17 2 27 B 30 55 51 12 148 C 23 40 56 29 148 Start 26 122 420 415 4 987 Stub 17 57 306 612 2 994 List 12 53 3 1 69 Category 1 2 4 10 155 172 Disambig 4 1 1 17 23 Portal 1 4 5 Project 11 11 Redirect 2 105 107 Template 2 15 8 4 66 95 NA 3 3 Assessed 103 312 918 1,088 361 7 2,789 Unassessed 1 5 6 Total 103 312 918 1,089 361 12 2,795 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 26,587 Ω = 4.93
Picture of the Month Joey Logano during the 2013 STP Gas Booster 500 at Martinsville Speedway.	Article Developments New articles: SR² Motorsports 2002 EA Sports 500 Erik Jones Ben Kennedy (racing driver) 2013 Aaron's 499 2013 NRA 500 2013 STP 400 2013 STP Gas Booster 500 2013 Toyota Owners 400 See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts
Article of the month – 2010 Crown Royal Presents the Heath Calhoun 400, a Good Article The 2010 Crown Royal Presents the Heath Calhoun 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on May 1, 2010 at Richmond International Raceway in Richmond, Virginia. Contested over 400 laps, it was the tenth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Kyle Busch for the Joe Gibbs Racing team. Jeff Gordon finished second, and Kevin Harvick, who started seventh, clinched third. Pole position driver Kyle Busch maintained the lead after the start of the race. Kyle Busch would eventually lead to the race high of 226 laps. Afterward, Gordon became the leader during the final laps. He remained the leader until Kyle Busch passed him with four laps remaining. Kyle Busch crossed the finish line first to clinch his first win of the season, and his third at Richmond International Raceway. There were six caution flags and twelve lead changes among eight different drivers throughout the course of the race. The result moved Kyle Busch up two spots to third in the Drivers' Championship, 109 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and ten ahead of Matt Kenseth. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, eighteen points points ahead of Toyota and thirty ahead of Ford, with twenty-six races remaining in the season. (Read more...)
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WP:NASCAR Newsletter (May 2013)

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume 3 · No. 11 –April 26, 2013 –May 25, 2013 Previous month's issue - Next month's issue
Project discussion • Project resources • Project Standards (discussion) • Project Category Structure (discussion) • Project Participants (discussion) • Project Assessment (discussion) • Recent Changes • Popular Articles
WikiProject News New members: Cscott79 (talk · contribs) — April 29 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. Help expand and update everything relating to the 2013 season. Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Kelley Earnhardt Miller, Jack White (racing driver), Reggie Ruggiero, Billy Nacewicz, Bugs Stevens Assess : See all here Cleanup : Days of Thunder, Rusty Wallace, NASCAR Thunder 2003, Bill Weber, Bobby Hillin, Jr. Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Mark Martin Expand : Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500 Maintain : 2024 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2024 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway Stubs : See all here Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations, 2008 Dickies 500, Frank Cicci Racing Other : More Portal Help 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 as Selected 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 articles or images on the talk pages.	Article Statistics NASCAR articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total GA 3 5 17 2 27 B 30 55 51 12 148 C 23 40 56 29 148 Start 26 123 424 424 5 1,002 Stub 17 57 309 603 2 988 List 12 53 3 1 69 Category 1 2 4 10 159 176 Disambig 4 1 1 19 25 Portal 1 4 5 Project 11 11 Redirect 2 106 108 Template 2 15 8 4 71 100 NA 3 3 Assessed 103 313 925 1,088 373 8 2,810 Unassessed 1 8 9 Total 103 313 925 1,089 373 16 2,819 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 26,587 Ω = 4.93
Picture of the Month The No. 90 Heilig Meyers Dick Trickle NASCAR Winston Cup car being worked on in the pits at Road America. The car had a different owner and was being used in a Formula Libre type event featuring Mid American Stock Cars. Trickle raced in this car somewhere between 1996 and 1998.	Article Developments New articles: Venturini Motorsports Chevy Silverado 250 (Mosport) 2013 Bojangles' Southern 500 2013 Coca-Cola 600 Kroger 225 Granger Select 200 (Louisville) 2005 Dickies 500 2013 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series season 2014 NASCAR Canadian Tire Series season 1997 California 500 1999 Goody's Headache Powder 500 1959 Firecracker 250 NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race XXIX 2013 FedEx 400 1988 Miller High Life 400 (September) Wauters Motorsports Doug Cooper (racing driver) See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts
Article of the month – Dick Trickle Richard "Dick" Trickle (October 27, 1941 – May 16, 2013) was an American race car driver. He raced for decades around the short tracks of Wisconsin, winning many championships along the way. Trickle competed in the ASA, ARTGO, ARCA, All Pro, IMCA, NASCAR, and USAC. In more than an estimated 2,200 races, Trickle logged one million laps and is believed to have won over 1,200 feature races. He was billed as the winningest short track driver in history. Trickle's career highlights include racing to 67 wins in 1972, winning seven ARTGO Championships in nine years between 1979 to 1987, winning back to back ASA AC-Delco Challenge championships in 1984 and 1985, the 1968 USAC Stock Car rookie of the year, and winning the 1989 NASCAR Rookie of the Year award in what was then called the Winston Cup (now Sprint Cup). Trickle was nicknamed the "White Knight" as referenced by his sponsored SuperAmerica paint scheme, when he raced in Wisconsin. (Read more...)
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WP:NASCAR Newsletter (June 2013)

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume 3 · No. 12 –May 26, 2013 –June 25, 2013 Previous month's issue - Next month's issue
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WikiProject News New members: None. 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. Help expand and update everything relating to the 2013 season. Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Kelley Earnhardt Miller, Jack White (racing driver), Reggie Ruggiero, Billy Nacewicz, Bugs Stevens; Grand National seasons: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969 Assess : See all here Cleanup : Days of Thunder, Rusty Wallace, NASCAR Thunder 2003, Bill Weber, Bobby Hillin, Jr. Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Mark Martin Expand : Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500 Maintain : 2024 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2024 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway Stubs : See all here Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations, 2008 Dickies 500, Frank Cicci Racing Other : More Portal Help 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 as Selected 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 articles or images on the talk pages.	Article Statistics NASCAR articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total GA 3 5 17 2 27 B 30 54 51 12 147 C 23 41 61 29 154 Start 26 128 442 441 1,037 Stub 17 59 314 600 990 List 13 53 3 69 Category 1 2 4 10 159 176 Disambig 4 1 1 19 25 Portal 1 4 5 Project 10 10 Redirect 2 108 110 Template 2 15 8 4 75 104 NA 4 4 Assessed 103 321 953 1,102 379 0 2,858 Unassessed 1 1 Total 103 321 953 1,102 379 1 2,859 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 26,587 Ω = 4.93
Picture of the Month An American flag with a flyover in the background at the 2013 Johnsonville Sausage 200 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Road America.	Article Developments Articles requesting Peer Review: List of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champions New articles: 1954 NASCAR Grand National Series 1957 Rebel 300 1970 Alabama 500 1972 American 500 1974 Winston 500 1976 Champion Spark Plug 400 1979 World 600 2001 MBNA Platinum 400 2005 Batman Begins 400 2013 Party in the Poconos 400 2013 Quicken Loans 400 2013 Toyota/Save Mart 350 2013 Quaker State 400 2013 Coke Zero 400 2013 Lenox Industrial Tools 301 Corey LaJoie Drew Herring James Ince Mudsummer Classic Shane Wilson (racing) See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts
Article of the month – 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350, a Good Article The 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on June 20, 2010 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. Contested over 110 laps, it was the sixteenth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season and the first of two road course competitions on the schedule. The race was won by Jimmie Johnson, for the Hendrick Motorsports team. Robby Gordon finished second, and Kevin Harvick, who started fourth, clinched third. Conditions were sunny at the start of the race, making the track potentially slippery. Pole position driver Kasey Kahne maintained his lead into the first corner, but Johnson, who had started in the second position on the grid, took the lead before the first lap was over. Kahne suffered an ill-handling car during the beginning of the race, causing him to fall to seventh by the sixth lap. Seven laps before the finish, race leader Marcos Ambrose, turned his car off to try to save fuel, but he could not refire the engine and subsequently stalled. He dropped back from the lead to sixth place with seven laps remaining, allowing Kahne to finish fourth and Jeff Gordon fifth. There were eight cautions and twelve lead changes among eight different drivers throughout the course of the race, Johnson's fourth win of the season and his first ever at Infineon. The result moved him up four spots to second in the Drivers' Championship, 140 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and one ahead of Kyle Busch. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, nine points ahead of Toyota and forty-three ahead of Dodge, with twenty races remaining in the season. (Read more...)
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WP:NASCAR Newsletter (July 2013)

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume IV · No. 1 –June 26, 2013 –July 25, 2013 Previous month's issue - Next month's issue
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WikiProject News New members: None 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. Help expand and update everything relating to the 2013 season. Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Kelley Earnhardt Miller, Jack White (racing driver), Reggie Ruggiero, Billy Nacewicz, Bugs Stevens; Grand National seasons: 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1967, 1968, 1969 Assess : See all here Cleanup : Days of Thunder, Rusty Wallace, NASCAR Thunder 2003, Bill Weber, Bobby Hillin, Jr. Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Mark Martin Expand : Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500 Maintain : 2024 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2024 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2024 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway Stubs : See all here Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations, 2008 Dickies 500, Frank Cicci Racing Other : More Portal Help 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 as Selected 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 articles or images on the talk pages.	Article Statistics NASCAR articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA ??? Total GA 3 5 17 2 27 B 30 54 51 13 148 C 23 41 63 29 156 Start 26 130 447 445 2 1,050 Stub 17 60 315 599 991 List 13 53 3 69 Category 1 2 4 10 160 177 Disambig 4 1 1 19 25 File 4 4 Portal 1 4 5 Project 10 10 Redirect 2 108 110 Template 2 15 8 4 75 104 Assessed 103 324 961 1,106 380 2 2,876 Unassessed 2 2 Total 103 324 961 1,106 380 4 2,878 WikiWork factors (?) ω = 26,587 Ω = 4.93
Picture of the Month Army Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Solomon, an operations sergeant for XVIII Airborne Corps, practices waving the starting flag at the Tums Fast Relief 500 NASCAR race at Martinsville Speedway in Virginia, October 28, 2012.	Article Developments New articles: 1997 Interstate Batteries 500 2001 MBNA Cal Ripken, Jr. 400 2001 Protection One 400 2005 Advance Auto Parts 500 2006 USG Sheetrock 400 2013 Camping World RV Sales 301 Clay Greenfield Buddy Parrott Jim Fitzgerald (racing driver) Rick Allen (television announcer) See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts
Article of the month – Tim Richmond, a good article Tim Richmond (June 7, 1955 - August 13, 1989) was an American race car driver from Ashland, Ohio. He competed in IndyCar racing before transferring to NASCAR's Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series). Richmond was the first driver to change from open wheel racing to NASCAR stock cars, which has since become an industry trend. He won the 1980 Indianapolis 500 Rookie of the Year award and had 13 victories during eight NASCAR seasons. Richmond achieved his top NASCAR season in 1986 when he finished third in points. He won seven races that season, more than any other driver on the tour. When he missed the season-opening Daytona 500 in February 1987, media reported that he had pneumonia. The infection most likely resulted from his compromised immune system, which had been weakened by AIDS. The disease would drastically shorten his life. Despite the state of his health, Richmond competed in eight races in 1987, winning two events and one pole position before his final race in August of that year. He attempted a comeback in 1988 before NASCAR banned him for testing positive for a banned substance. Richmond grew up in a wealthy family and lived a debauched lifestyle, earning him the nickname "Hollywood". In describing Richmond's influence in the sport of racing, Lowe's Motor Speedway president Humpy Wheeler said: "We've never had a race driver like Tim in stock car racing. He was almost a James Dean-like character." When Richmond was cast for a bit part in the 1983 movie Stroker Ace, "He fell right in with the group working on the film," said director Hal Needham. Cole Trickle, the main character in the movie Days of Thunder, played by Tom Cruise, was loosely based on Richmond and his interaction with Harry Hyde and Rick Hendrick. (Read more...)
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