Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Newsletter/201007

The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter
Year I · Issue I · July 2010

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From the editor

Hello, WikiProject NASCAR/Newsletter/201007! This is our first monthly WikiProject NASCAR newsletter. This helps keep members informed and up-to-date with WikiProject NASCAR, right in your user talk page. We hope that you find this newsletter useful; please leave comments about this newsletter on my talk page or our project discussion page. Users are always welcome to help us with this newsletter. If you are interested, please leave a message on an existing editor's talkpage or sign up on the "Contributors" list of the central newsletter page, and we will tell you everything you need to know and answer your questions. I hope that you will enjoy reading this! — Nascar 1996 ^{Contributions / Guestbook}

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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.
Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series, Safety in NASCAR, Mary Hendrick, DeLana Harvick
Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, J.D. McDuffie, 2010 Aaron's 499, Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin
Expand : Phoenix International Raceway, Road Course Ringer, BAM Racing
Maintain : 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2010 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Photo : Jamie McMurray, Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway, Michigan International Speedway
Stubs : See all here
Update : 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
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.

Article developments

See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts

NASCAR articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
GA	3	2	4	2			11
B	28	56	48	8			140
C	16	32	21	10			79
Start	23	109	221	146		26	525
Stub	19	49	224	390		39	721
List		6	1		1	44	52
Category				9	8		17
Disambig					12		12
Portal	1				4		5
Project					10		10
Redirect					3		3
Template	2	2	1	2	19		26
Assessed	92	256	520	567	57	109	1,601
Unassessed						176	176
Total	92	256	520	567	57	285	1,777

New Good Articles:
- 2010 Showtime Southern 500
- 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350
Current Good Article Nominees:
Completed Peer Reviews:
- List of NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champions
New articles:

Article of the month – 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350, new Good Article.

The 2010 Toyota/Save Mart 350 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series stock car race held on June 20, 2010 at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, California. Contested over 110 laps, it was the sixteenth race of the 2010 Sprint Cup Series season and the first of two road course competitions on the schedule. The race was won by Jimmie Johnson, for the Hendrick Motorsports team. Robby Gordon finished second, and Kevin Harvick, who started fourth, clinched third.

Conditions were sunny at the start of the race, making the track potentially slippery. Pole position driver Kasey Kahne maintained his lead into the first corner, but Johnson, who had started in the second position on the grid, took the lead before the first lap was over. Kahne suffered an ill-handling car during the beginning of the race, causing him to fall to seventh by the sixth lap. Seven laps before the finish, race leader Marcos Ambrose, turned his car off to try to save fuel, but he could not refire the engine and subsequently stalled. He dropped back from the lead to sixth place with seven laps remaining, allowing Kahne to finish fourth and Jeff Gordon fifth.

There were eight cautions and twelve lead changes among eight different drivers throughout the course of the race, Johnson's fourth win of the season and his first ever at Infineon. The result moved him up four spots to second in the Drivers' Championship, 140 points behind of leader Kevin Harvick and one ahead of Kyle Busch. Chevrolet maintained its lead in the Manufacturers' Championship, nine points ahead of Toyota and forty-three ahead of Dodge, with twenty races remaining in the season.

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