Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Newsletter/201012

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume 1 · No. 6 · November 26, 2010 – December 25, 2010 Previous month's issue - Next month's issue
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Featured Announcement I am proud to announce that a file relating to NASCAR has been promoted to featured status, the first for our project. The nomination, which ened December 15, 2010, was nominated by Nascar1996 and received nine supports. This couldn't have been accomplished without our projects participants, so thank you and I hope you continue to improve the project. -- Nascar1996 21:19, 16 December 2010 (UTC)
Happy Holidays Everyone! Current contributors Nascar1996 (talk · contribs) Airplaneman (talk · contribs) Wayne Slam (talk · contribs) New members Impala99 (talk · contribs) - 26 November 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. Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks: Here are some tasks awaiting attention: Article requests : Mary Hendrick, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, Jack White (NASCAR), Wayne Anderson (NASCAR Modified driver) Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Jimmie Johnson, 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 Update : 2025 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2025 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2025 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations Other : More Add content to the portal 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 asSelected 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 it on the talk pages. Images Below is the NASCAR Picture of the month (found here). The picture has to be one uploaded in the last month. It is exclusive to the Newsletter. REMEMBER, YOU CAN VOTE. Dale Earnhardt, Jr. on pit road, as his team completes a pit stop during the 2008 Dodge Challenger 500 at Darlington Raceway on May 10, 2008.	Article developments See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts NASCAR articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Total GA 4 3 9 2 18 B 30 57 50 8 145 C 21 35 31 12 99 Start 21 110 292 191 614 Stub 18 52 262 516 848 List 9 45 2 56 Category 1 2 4 11 18 Disambig 4 1 1 13 19 Portal 1 4 5 Project 10 10 Redirect 2 4 6 Template 2 14 5 4 19 44 NA 1 1 Assessed 98 287 701 747 50 1,883 Total 98 287 701 747 50 1,883 New Good Articles: 2010 Sylvania 300 2010 AAA 400 Current Good Article Nominees: 2010 Price Chopper 400 Phoenix International Raceway Indianapolis Motor Speedway Charlotte Motor Speedway Completed Peer Reviews: 2010 Sylvania 300 - Archived Review New articles: Johanna Long 1971 Myers Brothers 250 1966 Columbia 200 1961 Buddy Shuman 250 1971 West Virginia 500 1977 Talladega 500 1976 American 500 1964 Wilkes 400 1965 Gwyn Staley 400
Article of the month – 2010 Sylvania 300, a recent Good Article The 2010 Sylvania 300 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on September 19, 2010, at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire. The 300 lap race was the twenty-seventh in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, as well as the first race in the ten-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, which ends the season. Clint Bowyer, of the Richard Childress Racing team, won the race, with Denny Hamlin finishing second, and Jamie McMurray third. Pole position driver Brad Keselowski maintained his lead in the first lap, but in the second lap Tony Stewart pulled ahead. Chase for the Sprint Cup participants Jimmie Johnson, Kurt Busch, and Hamlin were in the top ten for most of the race, but in the closing laps all of them suffered spins or other problems. Hamlin was the only one to recover and finish in the top five. With two laps remaining, Tony Stewart was leading the race when he ran out of fuel, giving the lead to Bowyer, who also led the most laps in the race with 176. There were eight cautions and twenty-three lead changes among eight different drivers during the race. The race was Clint Bowyer's first win in the 2010 season, and the third of his career. The result advanced Bowyer to second in the Drivers' Championship, thirty-five points behind Hamlin and ten ahead of Kevin Harvick, but because of a penalty three days after the race, he fell to twelfth in the standings. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-two points ahead of Toyota and seventy-four ahead of Ford, with nine races remaining in the season. A total of 95,000 people attended the race, while 3.68 million watched it on television. (More...)
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