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The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter

Volume 2 · No. 6 –November 26, 2011 – December 25, 2011
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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 2011 season.
  • Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

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 14 2 24
B 31 57 52 11 151
C 21 37 39 14 111
Start 25 117 337 252 731
Stub 17 53 298 598 966
List 10 46 2 58
Category 1 2 4 11 122 140
Disambig 4 1 1 14 20
Portal 1 4 5
Project 10 10
Redirect 2 86 88
Template 2 15 8 4 41 70
NA 1 1
Assessed 101 300 801 895 278 2,375
Total 101 300 801 895 278 2,375

Picture of the Month


A NASCAR Toyota Camry at the Toyota Automobile Museum.

Article Developments


Article of the month – 2011 Subway Fresh Fit 500, a newly promoted Good Article

The 2011 Subway Fresh Fit 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on February 27, 2011 at Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. Contested over 312 laps, it was the second race of the 2011 season and was won by Jeff Gordon for Hendrick Motorsports from Kyle Busch in second and Jimmie Johnson third. Carl Edwards led the first lap from pole position ahead of Kurt Busch who started second on the grid. The race was caution free until lap 29 (debris), and then 48 laps later a multiple crash occurred involving 13 drivers. Later there were several lead changes, and another four cautions. With nine laps remaining, Gordon took the lead from Kyle Busch to win his first race of the season, his first in more than 60 races. There were eight cautions and 29 lead changes among 12 different drivers during the race. Gordon's win moved him to sixth position in the drivers' championship, 15 points behind leader Kyle Busch and one ahead of Bobby Labonte in seventh. In the Manufacturers' Championship, Toyota, Ford and Chevrolet had 12 points, four ahead of Dodge. A total of 75,000 people attended the race, and 10.36 million watched it on television. (Read more...)

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