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The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter
Volume 2 · No. 7 –December 26, 2011 – January 25, 2012

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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:

Here are some tasks awaiting attention:

Article requests : Doug Cooper, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, Jack White (NASCAR), Reggie Ruggiero, Billy Nacewicz, Bugs Stevens
Assess : See all here
Cleanup : Days of Thunder, Rusty Wallace, NASCAR Thunder 2003, Bill Weber, Bobby Hillin, Jr.
Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, 2010 Aaron's 499, Mark Martin
Expand : Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo, 2008 Daytona 500
Maintain : 2026 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2026 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2026 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series
Photo : Richie Evans, South Boston Speedway
Stubs : See all here
Verify : NASCAR rules and regulations, 2008 Dickies 500, Frank Cicci Racing
Other : More

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
Quality	Top	High	Mid	Low	NA	Total
GA	3	5	14	2		24
B	31	57	52	11		151
C	21	37	39	15		112
Start	25	117	339	264		745
Stub	17	53	300	594		964
List		10	47	2		59
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	43	72
NA					1	1
Assessed	101	300	806	904	280	2,391
Total	101	300	806	904	280	2,391

Picture of the Month

Article Developments

New articles:

Article of the month – Phoenix International Raceway - B-class article

Phoenix International Raceway, also known as PIR, is a one-mile, low-banked tri-oval race track located in Avondale, Arizona. The track opened in 1964 and currently hosts two NASCAR race weekends annually. PIR has also hosted the Indycar Series, CART, USAC and the Rolex Sports Car Series. The raceway is currently owned and operated by International Speedway Corporation.

The raceway was originally constructed with a 2.5 miles (4.0 km) road course that ran both inside and outside of the main tri-oval. In 1991 the track was reconfigured with the current 1.51 miles (2.43 km) interior layout. PIR has an estimated grandstand seating capacity of around 67,000. Lights were installed around the track in 2004 following the addition of a second annual NASCAR race weekend.

Phoenix International Raceway is home to two annual NASCAR race weekends, one of 13 facilities on the NASCAR schedule to host more than one race weekend a year. The track is both the first and last stop on the West Coast, as well as the second and second-to-last track on the schedule. (Read more...)

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