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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
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Images Below is the WP:F1 Picture of the Month (found here). Jack Brabham leads a group of cars during the first lap of the 1963 Dutch Grand Prix. New images 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1970 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1985
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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