Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorsport

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The purpose of the WikiProject:Motorsport is to maintain its child Wikiprojects; organise and improve the common areas between different motorsport projects; and improve aspects of motorsport that are not covered by other projects.

Please feel free to contribute to the project. You are welcome to add your name to WikiProject: Motorsport's list of members. Please include some information about your specialist areas of knowledge to assist other members.

Tasks and key subjects edit

The Subjects page includes all articles related to the project that lack their own subprojects. If you find such an article that is not currently included, please add its link to the appropriate section of the page, and place the project template on the article's talk page.
The Project Task List includes articles in need of improvement, and articles yet to be created.
Images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of motorsport people

Article Alerts edit

Articles for deletion

23 Apr 2024 – Katsunori Iketani (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Ltbdl (t · c); see discussion (1 participant)

Good article nominees

05 Mar 2024 – 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by EnthusiastWorld37 (t · c); start discussion
19 Dec 2023 – Barry Sheene (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Orsoni (t · c); start discussion
19 Nov 2023 – 2023 World Rally Championship (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Unnamelessness (t · c); start discussion

Articles to be merged

15 Apr 2024 – Macau Grand Prix (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Guia Circuit by John B123 (t · c); see discussion
06 Apr 2024 – Autocross (USA) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Autocross by Rally Wonk (t · c); see discussion
11 Mar 2024 – Lola B02/50 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Lola T87/50 by SpacedFarmer (t · c); see discussion
11 Mar 2024 – Lola B99/50 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Lola T87/50 by SpacedFarmer (t · c); see discussion
11 Mar 2024 – Lola T96/50 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Lola T87/50 by SpacedFarmer (t · c); see discussion
11 Mar 2024 – Lola T91/50 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Lola T87/50 by SpacedFarmer (t · c); see discussion
11 Mar 2024 – Lola T90/50 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Lola T87/50 by SpacedFarmer (t · c); see discussion
11 Mar 2024 – Lola T88/50 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Lola T87/50 by SpacedFarmer (t · c); see discussion
11 Mar 2024 – Reynard 95D (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Reynard 89D by SpacedFarmer (t · c); see discussion
11 Mar 2024 – Reynard 94D (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Reynard 89D by SpacedFarmer (t · c); see discussion

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Articles to be split

15 Apr 2024 – Macau Grand Prix (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by John B123 (t · c); see discussion
31 Dec 2023 – Fernando Alonso (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by F1fans (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

22 Apr 2024 – Draft:High Limit Racing (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SamJ93 (t · c)
20 Apr 2024 – Draft:Abel Motorsports (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by RegalZ8790 (t · c)
08 Apr 2024 – Draft:2024 New Zealand Rally Championship (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Significa liberdade (t · c)
22 Feb 2024 – Draft:Motorsport Tickets (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Betelgeuse8 (t · c)
16 Jan 2024 – Draft:2011 InterSteps Championship (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Okrisk1931 (t · c)
19 Apr 2024 – Draft:XRacing (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c) was declined by Utopes (t · c) on 24 Apr 2024
21 Feb 2024 – Draft:Manuel Espírito Santo (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by BurningBlaze05 (t · c) was moved to Manuel Espírito Santo (talk · edit · hist) by DriverDatabase1 (t · c) on 19 Apr 2024
28 Jan 2024 – Draft:Daniel Bereznay (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Tamás Szüts (t · c) was declined by Xkalponik (t · c) on 20 Apr 2024
27 Jan 2024 – Draft:Tom O'Gorman (talk · edit · hist) submitted for AfC by Andplug3 (t · c) was declined by ToadetteEdit (t · c) on 21 Apr 2024

Templates edit

This user is a participant in WikiProject Motorsport.

{{WikiProject Motorsport}} - Used to mark relevant WikiProjects and articles, particularly those that are not covered by existing projects. Shortcut: {{WPMS}}
{{User WP Motorsport}} is the project's standard userbox.
{{WikiProject Motorsport Topicon}} - topicon
If you want to advertise this project on a user page, you can do so with the advert banner. To include a link to the project, you can use this syntax:

[[Image:Qxz-ad127.gif|468x60px|link=Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorsport]]

The article templates listed below are part of Category:Motorsport templates and/or its sub-categories

{{Template:Infobox motorsport championship}} can be used for most types of motor racing series. See F3 Euroseries or WTCC for examples of it in use.
{{Template:Motorsport formula}} can be used for racing formulae, such as Formula Renault, Super 1600 or Group N.
{{Template:Motor racing team}} can be used for almost any current or former team (except F1 teams), including those that are/were involved in multiple series.
{{Template:Infobox racing driver}} - Most suitable for drivers who are established (more than one season) in a single series or formula.
{{Template:Racing car}} - For any racing car.
{{Template:Infobox Sport governing body}} - For any sports governing body including motorsport

Article Assessment edit

Advice about grading criteria can be found on the Assessment page. Articles that have been tagged with the project banner, but have yet to receive a rating, can be viewed at Category:Unassessed motorsport articles. Please help to populate this category by placing the {{WikiProject Motorsport}} template on the talk pages of applicable articles (see project talk page). Related categories include:

Parent projects edit

Child WikiProjects edit

Listed below are the child WikiProjects of WikiProject: Motorsport. You can access each project's list of participants from the links below.

Formula One edit

WikiProject Formula One aims to create, expand, update and standardize Wikipedia articles related to Formula One, including drivers, teams and constructors, regulations, and history.
Participants

World Rally edit

WikiProject World Rally aims to create and improve articles related to the World Rally Championship and rallying in general.
Participants

Sports Car Racing edit

WikiProject Sports Car Racing is a collective effort by Wikipedia editors to create, maintain, expand, update, and align articles about all elements of sports car racing.
Participants

NASCAR edit

WikiProject NASCAR is a project to better organize information in articles related to NASCAR.
Participants

Motorcycle racing edit

WikiProject Motorcycle racing aims to create, maintain, expand, update, and align articles about all elements of motorcycle racing.
Participants

American Open Wheel Racing edit

WikiProject American Open Wheel Racing is a project to better organize information in articles related to Open Wheel Racing held or based in the United States, with an emphasis on the IRL, Champ Car, and Indy/Championship racing under the AAA and USAC banner dating to c.1902, the first year of nationalized event sanctioning.
Participants

WikiProject TCR Series aims to create and improve articles related to series, using the TCR regulations - including World Touring Car Cup, Touring Car Endurance Series and continental, regional or national championships utilizing the regulations.
Participants

Taskforces edit

References edit

Official Formula One website - Archive is free to use, highly recommended for referencing Formula One World Drivers' Champion Bios and race reports from 2003 onwards.
GrandPrix.com - GP Encyclopedia contains info from all Grand Prix reports, Driver bios, F1 people bios, Team Profiles, Sponsor profiles, Engine profiles for Formula One and news archiving from January 1995 to the present day on general motorsport as well as Formula One news.
racing-reference.info - The website has driver's statistics, owner's statistics, race results, track results, and season championship information for the 3 major NASCAR divisions. Continues to be expanded to include IROC, American open wheel racing (IndyCar, IRL, USAC), NASCAR touring series, defunct NASCAR series (Convertible, Speedway, etc.)
Motor Racing Circuits Database - Although no longer updated since 2005, this website contains layout histories of nearly every race course in the world, current or defunct. Also includes results for most international series of any discipline. Also useful is Gdecali.it which is still active.
SpeedwaysOnline.com - a resource of American and Canadian circuits, sanctioning bodies, print publications, and internet publications.

For a more formal piece of referencing, please consult the WikiProject Motorsport Library

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Assessment edit

Motorsport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		4	1	6			11
FL		1	5	6			12
GA	3	5	22	104		2	136
B	19	27	50	164		14	274
C	23	61	189	1,353		142	1,768
Start	11	66	525	3,561		819	4,982
Stub		2	185	2,034		1,206	3,427
List	1	3	11	219	1	196	431
NA			11	43	6,902		6,956
Assessed	57	169	999	7,490	6,903	2,379	17,997
Unassessed				11		2,729	2,740
Total	57	169	999	7,501	6,903	5,108	20,737
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 53,638			Ω = 5.06