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The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter

Volume 3 · No. 2 –July 26, 2012 – August 25, 2012
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WikiProject News


  • New members:
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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 2012 season.
  • Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks:

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 16 2 26
B 30 57 52 11 150
C 22 39 51 23 135
Start 26 115 372 319 5 837
Stub 17 53 304 610 3 987
List 12 54 2 68
Category 1 2 4 10 129 146
Disambig 4 1 1 14 20
Portal 1 4 5
Project 10 10
Redirect 2 95 97
Template 2 15 8 4 57 86
NA 1 1
Assessed 102 302 864 982 310 8 2,568
Unassessed 1 1
Total 102 302 864 982 310 9 2,569

Picture of the Month


NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Denny Hamlin racing during the 2012 Kobalt Tools 400 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in March.

Article Developments


  • New articles:

Article of the month – 2010 Carfax 400, a Good Article

The 2010 Carfax 400 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race that was held on August 15, 2010 at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn, Michigan. Contested over 200 laps, it was the twenty-third race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Kevin Harvick for the Richard Childress Racing team. Denny Hamlin finished second, and Carl Edwards, who started twenty-fourth, clinched third.

Pole position driver Kasey Kahne maintained his lead into the first corner to begin the race, but Jimmie Johnson, who started in the second position on the grid, took the lead before the first lap was over. Afterward, Greg Biffle became the leader, and would eventually lead to the race high of 66 laps. Tony Stewart led after the final pit stops, ahead of Hamlin and Harvick. Harvick helped Hamlin to become the leader, but with twelve laps left, Harvick gained on Hamlin and claimed the first position with eleven lap remaining. Harvick maintained his position to claim his first Sprint Cup victory at Michigan International Speedway.

There were five cautions and nineteen lead changes among nine different drivers throughout the course of the race, Harvick's third win of the season. The result maintained the first position in the Drivers' Championship and clinched him a position in the Chase. He remained 293 points ahead of second place driver Jeff Gordon and 353 ahead of Denny Hamlin. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, thirty points ahead of Toyota and sixty-one ahead of Ford, with thirteen races remaining in the season. A total of 105,000 people attended the race, while 4.917 million watched it on television. (Read more...)

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