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< Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR | Newsletter
The WikiProject NASCAR Newsletter
Volume 1 · No. 4 · September 26, 2010 – October 25, 2010
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Project discussion • Project resources • Project Standards (discussion) • Project Category Structure (discussion) • Project Participants (discussion) • Project Assessment (discussion) • Recent Changes • Project Award • Popular Articles

Current contributors
  • Nascar1996 (talk · contribs)
  • Airplaneman (talk · contribs)
  • NerdyScienceDude (talk · contribs)
New members
  • GD1223 (talk · contribs) - 19 October
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 : Mary Hendrick, Kelley Earnhardt Elledge, Jack White (NASCAR), Wayne Anderson (NASCAR Modified driver)
  • Copyedit : NASCAR, Dale Earnhardt, J.D. McDuffie, 2010 Aaron's 499, Jimmie Johnson, Mark Martin
  • Expand : Phoenix International Raceway, Road course ringer, BAM Racing, Greg Erwin, Donnie Wingo
  • Maintain : 2026 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, 2026 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2026 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, 2011 NASCAR Nationwide Series, 2011 NASCAR Camping World Truck 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.
A Camping World Truck Series truck at the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Article developments
  • See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject NASCAR/Article alerts
NASCAR articles by quality and importance
Quality Importance
Top High Mid Low NA Total
GA 4 2 7 2 15
B 28 57 52 8 145
C 18 34 29 12 93
Start 24 109 289 191 613
Stub 20 52 259 502 833
List 9 43 1 1 54
Category 9 8 17
Disambig 4 1 13 18
Portal 1 4 5
Project 10 10
Redirect 1 4 5
Template 2 12 2 2 19 37
Assessed 97 279 683 727 59 1,845
Total 97 279 683 727 59 1,845
  • Current Good Article Nominees:
    • 2010 AAA 400
    • 2010 Sylvania 300
    • Auto Club Speedway
  • New articles:
  • 2009 Winchester 400
  • Jerry Marquis
  • 1979 Texas 400
  • Poor and Stupid
  • Wilkesboro Metropolitan Area
  • Lawrence Jacquelin
Article of the month – Alan Kulwicki, selected as a good article

Alan Dennis Kulwicki (December 14, 1954 – April 1, 1993), nicknamed "Special K" and the "Polish Prince", was an American NASCAR Winston Cup Series (now Sprint Cup Series) racecar driver. He started racing at local short tracks in Wisconsin before moving up to regional stock car touring series. Kulwicki arrived at NASCAR, the highest and most expensive level of stock car racing in the United States, with no sponsor, a limited budget, and only a racecar and a borrowed pickup truck. Despite starting with meager equipment and finances, he earned the 1986 NASCAR Rookie of the Year award over drivers racing for well-funded teams.

After Kulwicki won his first race at Phoenix International Raceway, he debuted what would become his trademark "Polish Victory Lap". Kulwicki won the 1992 Winston Cup championship by what was then the closest margin in NASCAR history. He died early in 1993 in a light aircraft accident, and was unable to defend his championship. He has been inducted into numerous racing halls of fame and was named one of NASCAR's 50 Greatest Drivers.

Kulwicki was known for being a perfectionist and doing things his own way. An engineer by trade, his scientific approach to NASCAR racing inspires the way teams are now run. Despite lucrative offers from top car owners, he insisted on driving for his own race team, AK Racing, during most of his NASCAR career. Described by his publicist as "a real hard type of person to get to know", he remained a bachelor throughout his life. (More...)

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