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The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter Volume 1 · No. 8 · January 26, 2011 – February 25, 2011 Previous month's issue - Next month's issue
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Current contributors Nascar1996 (talk · contribs) Wayne Slam (talk · contribs) New members The Bushranger (talk · contribs) - February 21, 2011 Treyfin (talk · contribs) - February 24, 2011 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) 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 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. NASCAR fans hoist three fingers into the air during the third lap of the 53rd running of the Daytona 500 on Sunday to honor the late Dale Earnhardt, who was killed in a crash there 10 years ago while driving the No. 3 Goodwrench Chevrolet.	Article developments See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts NASCAR articles by quality and importance Quality Importance Top High Mid Low NA Total GA 5 3 10 2 20 B 30 58 52 10 150 C 20 37 34 12 103 Start 22 114 312 208 656 Stub 17 55 282 520 874 List 10 46 2 58 Category 1 2 4 11 121 139 Disambig 4 1 1 14 20 Portal 1 4 5 Project 9 9 Redirect 2 4 6 Template 2 15 8 4 39 68 NA 1 1 Assessed 98 299 751 770 191 2,109 Total 98 299 751 770 191 2,109 New Good Articles: 2010 Price Chopper 400 Current Good Article Nominees: 2011 Budweiser Shootout Harley J. Earl Trophy 2010 Ford 400 New articles: 1972 World 600 2011 Subway Fresh Fit 500 1956 Buddy Shuman 250 1961 Wilkes 200 1960 National 400 1967 Greenville 200 1953 Wilkes 160 Patrick Sheltra 1958 Jim Mideon 500 1967 Carolina 500 1955 LeHi 300 Daytona 500 history 1962 Southern 500 1960 International 200 NASCAR National Commissioner FAS Lane Racing 1979 Coca-Cola 500 1985 Van Scoy Diamond Mine 500 Steve Gray (NASCAR driver) 1969 Alabama 200 1963 Pickens 200 1980 CRC Chemicals 500
Article of the month – 2010 Price Chopper 400, a recent GA The 2010 Price Chopper 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on October 3, 2010 at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, Kansas. The 300 lap race was the twenty-ninth in the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The race was also the third event in the ten round Chase for the Sprint Cup competititon , which would concluded the 2010 season. Greg Biffle, of the Roush Fenway Racing team, won the race, with Jimmie Johnson finishing second and Kevin Harvick third. Pole position driver Kasey Kahne maintained his lead on the first lap to begin the race, as Jeff Gordon, who started in the third position on the grid, remained behind him. Twenty-three laps later Jeff Gordon became the leader of the race. After the final pit stops, Paul Menard became the leader of the race, but with less than fifty laps remaining, Biffle passed him. He maintained the first position to lead a total of sixty laps, and to win his second race of the season. There were five cautions and twenty lead changes among twelve different drivers throughout the course of the race. It was Greg Biffle's second win in the 2010 season, and the sixteenth of his career. The result moved Biffle up to eighth in the Drivers' Championship, eighty-five points behind Jimmie Johnson and sixteen ahead of Jeff Burton. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty-seven ahead of Toyota and seventy-seven ahead of Ford, with seven races remaining in the season. A total of 100,000 people attended the race, while 5.25 million watched it on television. (More...)
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