Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorsport

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WikiProject: Motorsport

The purpose of the WikiProject:Motorsport is to maintain its child Wikiprojects; organise and improve the common areas between different motorsport projects; and improve aspects of motorsport that are not covered by other projects.

Please feel free to contribute to the project. You are welcome to add your name to WikiProject: Motorsport's list of members. Please include some information about your specialist areas of knowledge to assist other members.

Tasks and key subjects

The Subjects page includes all articles related to the project that lack their own subprojects. If you find such an article that is not currently included, please add its link to the appropriate section of the page, and place the project template on the article's talk page.
The Project Task List includes articles in need of improvement, and articles yet to be created.
Images for Category:Wikipedia requested images of motorsport people

Article Alerts

Articles for deletion

10 Mar 2026 – Brad Francis (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by Bearcat (t · c); see discussion (2 participants; relisted)
20 Feb 2026 – Speed Vegas (talk · edit · hist) was AfDed by MelbourneIdentity (t · c); see discussion (11 participants; relisted)
10 Mar 2026 – Tuff Trax (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by 4meter4 (t · c) was closed as redirect by Servite et contribuere (t · c) on 17 Mar 2026; see discussion (7 participants)
07 Mar 2026 – Fluid Motorsport Development (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by BookishReader (t · c) was closed as delete by Explicit (t · c) on 15 Mar 2026; see discussion (2 participants)
05 Mar 2026 – Bill Braun (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Ecourter (t · c) was closed as redirect by Fade258 (t · c) on 12 Mar 2026; see discussion (4 participants)

Good article nominees

13 Feb 2026 – Osamu Miyazaki (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Simongraham (t · c); start discussion
05 Dec 2025 – 2025 World Rally Championship (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Unnamelessness (t · c); start discussion

Requested moves

14 Mar 2026 – Rachel Robertson (racing driver) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Rachel Robertson by JuniperChill (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

14 Dec 2022 – List of rider deaths in motorcycle racing (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by 86.11.147.79 (t · c); see discussion

Articles for creation

17 Mar 2026 – Draft:Nayef Abu Tayeh (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Nayefabutayeh (t · c)
03 Mar 2026 – Draft:João Manuel Costa Antunes (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Romulus Monthpeer (t · c)
02 Mar 2026 – Draft:2003 British Superbike Championship (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by M1GHTY M4VS (t · c)
28 Feb 2026 – Draft:2000 British Superbike Championship (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by M1GHTY M4VS (t · c)
23 Feb 2026 – Draft:2002 British Superbike Championship (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by M1GHTY M4VS (t · c)
17 Feb 2026 – Draft:Carolina Motorsports Park Draft 1 (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by SkirtVrumSkirt (t · c)
16 Feb 2026 – Draft:Rossa Cars (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Qwerfjkl (bot) (t · c)
11 Feb 2026 – Draft:Giltrap Group (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Gameswithbenefits2014 (t · c)
02 Feb 2026 – Draft:Sanjay Takale (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Davidindia (t · c)
01 Feb 2026 – Draft:Julian DaCosta (talk · edit · hist) has been submitted for AfC by Finn Shipley (t · c)

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Templates

This user participates in WikiProject Motorsport.

{{WikiProject Motorsport}} - Used to mark relevant WikiProjects and articles, particularly those that are not covered by existing projects. Shortcut: {{WPMS}}
{{User WP Motorsport}} is the project's standard userbox.
{{WikiProject Motorsport Topicon}} - topicon
If you want to advertise this project on a user page, you can do so with the advert banner. To include a link to the project, you can use this syntax:

[[Image:Qxz-ad127.gif|468x60px|link=Wikipedia:WikiProject Motorsport]]

The article templates listed below are part of Category:Motorsport templates and/or its sub-categories

{{Template:Infobox motorsport championship}} can be used for most types of motor racing series. See F3 Euroseries or WTCC for examples of it in use.
{{Template:Motorsport formula}} can be used for racing formulae, such as Formula Renault, Super 1600 or Group N.
{{Template:Motor racing team}} can be used for almost any current or former team (except F1 teams), including those that are/were involved in multiple series.
{{Template:Infobox racing driver}} - Most suitable for drivers who are established (more than one season) in a single series or formula.
{{Template:Racing car}} - For any racing car.
{{Template:Infobox Sport governing body}} - For any sports governing body including motorsport

Article Assessment

Advice about grading criteria can be found on the Assessment page. Articles that have been tagged with the project banner, but have yet to receive a rating, can be viewed at Category:Unassessed motorsport articles. Please help to populate this category by placing the {{WikiProject Motorsport}} template on the talk pages of applicable articles (see project talk page). Related categories include:

Parent projects

Child WikiProjects

Listed below are the child WikiProjects of WikiProject: Motorsport. You can access each project's list of participants from the links below.

Formula One

WikiProject Formula One aims to create, expand, update and standardize Wikipedia articles related to Formula One, including drivers, teams and constructors, regulations, and history.
Participants

World Rally

WikiProject World Rally aims to create and improve articles related to the World Rally Championship and rallying in general.
Participants

Sports Car Racing

WikiProject Sports Car Racing is a collective effort by Wikipedia editors to create, maintain, expand, update, and align articles about all elements of sports car racing.
Participants

NASCAR

WikiProject NASCAR is a project to better organize information in articles related to NASCAR.
Participants

Motorcycle racing

WikiProject Motorcycle racing aims to create, maintain, expand, update, and align articles about all elements of motorcycle racing.
Participants

American Open Wheel Racing

WikiProject American Open Wheel Racing is a project to better organize information in articles related to Open Wheel Racing held or based in the United States, with an emphasis on the IRL, Champ Car, and Indy/Championship racing under the AAA and USAC banner dating to c.1902, the first year of nationalized event sanctioning.
Participants

WikiProject TCR Series aims to create and improve articles related to series, using the TCR regulations - including World Touring Car Cup, Touring Car Endurance Series and continental, regional or national championships utilizing the regulations.
Participants

Taskforces

References

Official Formula One website - Archive is free to use, highly recommended for referencing Formula One World Drivers' Champion Bios and race reports from 2003 onwards.
GrandPrix.com - GP Encyclopedia contains info from all Grand Prix reports, Driver bios, F1 people bios, Team Profiles, Sponsor profiles, Engine profiles for Formula One and news archiving from January 1995 to the present day on general motorsport as well as Formula One news.
racing-reference.info - The website has driver's statistics, owner's statistics, race results, track results, and season championship information for the 3 major NASCAR divisions. Continues to be expanded to include IROC, American open wheel racing (IndyCar, IRL, USAC), NASCAR touring series, defunct NASCAR series (Convertible, Speedway, etc.)
Motor Racing Circuits Database - Although no longer updated since 2005, this website contains layout histories of nearly every race course in the world, current or defunct. Also includes results for most international series of any discipline. Also useful is Gdecali.it which is still active.
SpeedwaysOnline.com - a resource of American and Canadian circuits, sanctioning bodies, print publications, and internet publications.

For a more formal piece of referencing, please consult the WikiProject Motorsport Library

A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.

Motorsport articles by quality and importance
Quality	Importance
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	???	Total
FA		4	1	6			11
FL		1	5	9			15
A				1			1
GA	4	7	25	116		4	156
B	22	30	59	191		34	336
C	25	76	247	1,902	1	318	2,569
Start	12	72	552	7,037	5	1,745	9,423
Stub		2	176	3,150	6	2,190	5,524
List	1	3	14	337	1	211	567
NA			13	72	9,379		9,464
Assessed	64	195	1,092	12,821	9,392	4,502	28,066
Unassessed				2		396	398
Total	64	195	1,092	12,823	9,392	4,898	28,464
WikiWork factors (?)		ω = 91,856			Ω = 5.10