Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Newsletter/201206

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume 2 · No. 12 –May 26, 2012 – June 25, 2012 Previous month's issue - Next month's issue
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WikiProject News New members: Jayemd — June 22, 2012 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 Elledge, 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 15 2 25 B 31 57 53 11 152 C 21 38 50 22 131 Start 26 116 365 311 2 820 Stub 17 53 305 609 984 List 12 54 2 68 Category 1 2 4 10 127 144 Disambig 4 1 1 14 20 Portal 1 4 5 Project 10 10 Redirect 2 89 91 Template 2 15 8 4 51 80 NA 1 1 Assessed 102 302 857 972 296 2 2,531 Unassessed 1 1 Total 102 302 857 972 296 3 2,532
Picture of the Month NASCAR driver Nelson Piquet, Jr. at the 2012 Sargento 200 Nationwide Series race at Road America. He won his first NASCAR race at the track after winning the pole position.	Article Developments New Good Articles: 2010 Kobalt Tools 500 (Phoenix) Current Good Article Nominees: 1998 Pepsi 400 New articles: Jimmy Makar NASCAR Stock V6 Series 1982 Winston Western 500 American Ethanol 200 (fall) 2012 FedEx 400 Fain Skinner 1969 Dixie 500 Robbie Faggart Emerson Newton-John Ross Chastain Tim Bainey, Jr. Allison Legacy Series Inception Motorsports 1998 Pepsi 400 2012 Pocono 400 1983 Talladega 500 Victor Gonzalez, Jr. 1975 Music City USA 420 1987 Goody's 500 Bill Champion (racing driver) Pete Orr (racing driver) Darrell Basham 2012 Quicken Loans 400 Kyle Larson (racing driver) 2012 Toyota/Save Mart 350 American Ethanol Green Flag Restart Award Bryan Silas 1964 Capital City 300 1976 Gwyn Staley 400 Go Green Racing Indiana 250 (auto race) Leavine Family Racing 2012 Quaker State 400 1971 Asheville 300 See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts
Article of the month – 2010 Kobalt Tools 500 (Phoenix), a new Good Article The 2010 Kobalt Tools 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on November 14, 2010 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. Contested over 312 laps, it was the thirty-fifth, and the ninth race in the Chase for the Sprint Cup during the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Carl Edwards, for the Roush Fenway Racing team. Ryan Newman finished second, and Joey Logano clinched third. Pole position driver Edwards maintained his lead on the first lap to begin the race, as Newman, who started in the second position on the grid, remained behind him. On the seventh lap, Kurt Busch became the leader of the race. Hamlin, the points leader before the race, led the most laps with a total of 190. On lap 298, Hamlin pitted and became a lap behind. He didn't return to the first ten positions afterward. Edwards maintained the lead to win the race. There were five cautions and 14 lead changes among six different drivers throughout the course of the race. It was Edwards' first win in the 2010 season, and the 18th of his career. The result kept Edwards in fourth in the Drivers' Championship, 264 points behind Denny Hamlin and 47 ahead of Matt Kenseth. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, 42 ponits ahead of Toyota and 88 ahead of Ford, with one race remaining in the season. A total of 75,000 people attended the race, while 4.201 million watched it on television. (Read more...)
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