Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Newsletter/201303

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume 3 · No. 9 –February 26, 2013 –March 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 : 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 = 26,714 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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