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.

Shortcut: WP:SCR

Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 What This WikiProject Covers 1.2 Sports Car Racing Series 1.2.1 Current 1.2.2 Defunct 2 Members 2.1 Current Members 2.2 Primary Tasks 2.3 Secondary Tasks 2.4 Other Tasks 2.4.1 To-Do List 2.4.2 Article needing clean-up 3 Tools 3.1 Example Pages 3.2 Templates 3.3 Categories 4 Suggestions and Ideas 5 Featured content 5.1 Featured articles 5.2 Good articles 5.3 Featured article candidates 5.4 Good article candidates 5.5 Did you know (DYK)s 5.6 Peer review requests 6 Helpful Links 6.1 Similar WikiProjects 6.2 Series 6.3 Results 6.4 Information

[edit] Introduction

The purpose of this project is to bring information on sports car racing to Wikipedia and thus into public view. By having a collaborative effort, we will be able to present information about sportscar racing in a standardized fashion that will allow people to find the information they want on sportscar racing with ease. At the same time we will also be able to help articles expand and provide fact checking for others, giving us truly encyclopedic information. Most of all, as editors and sports car racing fans, we will be able to expand our own knowledge of the sport by working with others who enjoy this sport as much as we do.

[edit] What This WikiProject Covers

WikiProject Sports Car Racing will cover various areas in motorsports. By our definition, sports car racing will include racing involving racing sports cars (or prototypes) as well as Grand Touring style GT cars.

Please note that WikiProject Sports Car Racing will not be attempting to cover open wheel racing, touring car racing, stock car racing, rallying or anything else that does not fit within the definition of sports car racing.

[edit] Sports Car Racing Series

As of right now, this project covers not only currently active racing series, but also some defunct racing series as well. These series are currently being covered.

[edit] Current

• ADAC GT Masters
• American Le Mans Series
• Australian GT Championship
• Belcar
• Brazil GT3 Championship
• British GT Championship
• FFSA GT Championship
• FIA GT Championship
• FIA GT3 European Championship
• International GT Open
• Interserie
• Italian GT Championship
• Le Mans Series (formerly Le Mans Endurance Series)
• Rolex Sports Car Series
• Spanish GT Championship
• Speed GT (Speed World Challenge)
• Super GT (formerly JGTC)

[edit] Defunct

• All Japan Sports Prototype Championship
• BPR Global GT Series
• BRDC C2 Championship
• CanAm
• Clubmans
• Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft/Supercup
• European Le Mans Series
• FIA Sportscar Championship
• Guards Trophy
• IMSA GT Championship (AKA Camel GT/Camel GTP)
• Japan Le Mans Challenge
• Thundersports
• United States Road Racing Championship
• World Sportscar Championship

[edit] Members

If you are a sports car racing fan and have knowledge that can help the project, then I suggest you add yourself to our list. Any help in any form is worthy enough of joining.

Please sign your name at the bottom of the list with ~~~~ so we know your user name and the date you joined. Also, when signing, tick the "Watch this page" option at the bottom so that you can be kept up to date on changes to the project.

[edit] Current Members

• The359 02:28, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
• FCYTravis 02:48, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
• James086^{Talk | Contribs} 02:54, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
• Mustang6172 03:10, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
• Pc13 09:22, 14 December 2006 (UTC)
• Willirennen 00:40, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
• Pyrope 11:50, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
• Pete Fenelon 13:11, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
• BMan1113VR 00:17, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
• Thesingo 17:09, 10 January 2007 (UTC)
• Xagent86 (Talk | contribs) 23:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
• Spyder_Monkey (Talk) 03:30, 7 March 2007 (UTC)
• Cs-wolves 00:40, 24 March 2007 (UTC)
• Gentgeen 07:35, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
• GTHO 11:37, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
• Richard n 17:02, 20 June 2007 (UTC)
• //\\ AirbusA346 //\\ 09:56, 8 September 2007 (UTC)
• Kaveman12 21:05, 5 December 2007 (UTC)
• Yummyfire 06:53, 19 December 2007 (UTC)
• User:Chrisg21090 I go to every race at Homestead.
• Proscriptus 5 August 2008
• Danny 93 (talk) 21:14, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
• Angela "Connie" Tidwell Frady (talk) 03:23, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
• Retromaniac (talk) 07:08, 26 November 2008 (UTC)
• Kb9vrg (talk) 01:12, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
• Tom Bartlett (talk) 04:42, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
• Officially Mr X (talk) 15:50, 1 July 2009 (UTC)

[edit] Primary Tasks

The primary tasks of the project will be to produce articles about the basics of sports car racing. These articles will contain the most basic information about the subject like history, champions or winners, locations, notability, and so on.

The following are types of primary articles that should be dealt with first, with examples:

• Sports car racing
• Individual racing series

Example: Japan Le Mans Challenge

• Sanctioning bodies

Example: Automobile Club de l'Ouest

• Individual races with a long history or notability

Example: 1000km Nürburgring

• Racing circuits with a long history or notability

Example: Sebring International Raceway

• Manufacturers with a long history or notability

Example: Lola Cars

• Racing formulas

Example: Group 5 (racing)

• Sports car technology and design

Example: Gurney flap

• Sports car racing terminology

Example: Endurance racing

[edit] Secondary Tasks

These tasks are more in-depth, providing a wealth of information about specific areas of sportscar racing. These will take much longer then any of the primary tasks due to the vast amount of wealth necessary to complete the task.

The following are types of secondary articles that should be dealt with if you have specific knowledge about the large amount of information necessary, again with examples:

• Individual championship seasons

Example: 1992 World Sportscar Championship season

• Individual races in a season

Example: 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans

• Notable racing teams

Example: Ecurie Ecosse

• Notable driver biographies and histories

Example: Johnny O'Connell

• Racing circuits that lack a history, but are still notable

Example: Masaryk Circuit

• Notable racing cars

Example: Porsche 911 GT1

• Manufacturers that lack a history, but are still notable

Example: Dome (constructor)

• Engine builders that are seperate from chassis manufacturers

Example: Judd (engine)

• Adding photographs for articles

Example: Image:Gtp sports cars.jpg

[edit] Other Tasks

Other tasks that do not fit into primary or secondary categories are ones that can be done simple in free time, and have no set structure. This includes correcting typos, mistakes, and grammar errors in articles, as well asproofreading or proposing questions to editors regarding facts or substance.

If you create or find another other useful tools that you feel the rest of us should know about, feel free to add them to this list. If possible, inform others on this page's talk page so that some do not miss it.

[edit] To-Do List

edit · history · watch · refresh  To-do list for Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports Car Racing:

This is the current list of articles that members of WikiProject Sports Car Racing believe should be created, expanded, or maintained. Feel free to add to the list as you feel necessary. If you have worked on a page listed here, please do not delete it, instead strike it through and it will be deleted from the list at a later time. To strike through, add <s> </s> around the link. Here are some tasks you can do: Requests: The following are redlink pages that deserve your attention: Series Brazil GT3 Championship - Brazil national series[1] Guards Trophy Dutch Supercar Challenge Races Teams Bandoh Project Racing - long time Toyota campaigner[2] Chamberlain Engineering Georg Loos - currently a redirect to Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft G.P.C. Sport Gunnar Racing - renown Porsche campaigner[3] J.W. Automotive - Links to John Wyer incorrectly, needs separate entry Team Cerumo - long time Toyota campaigner[4] Team Kraft - long time Toyota campaigner[5] Team LeMans - one time Nissan, then long time Toyota campaigner[6] Van Merksteijn Motorsport - 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans LMP2 class winning team Vasek Polak - renowned Porsche privateer Drivers Dennis Aase Walt Bohren Enzo Calderari, partner of Bryner Luca Cappellari - FIA GT Champion Dave Cowart Rob Dyson Gene Felton - highest scoring IMSA driver, second to Al Holbert Gabriele Gardel - FIA GT Champion Masahiko Kageyama - 1993-94 JGTC champion Frank Jelinski - Major Porsche Group C driver Ryo Michigami - 2001 Super GT champion Kenper Miller Milt Minter - Porsche's Can-Am campaigner Scooter Patrick Anders Olofsson Hironori Takeuchi - Super GT champion Cars Jaguar XJR-8 - Group C Car and former winner of the Autosport Racing Car of the Year award Sun Red SR21 - Competes in International GT Open Copyedit: Wikify: Verify: Cleanup: 24 Hours of Daytona Alvin Springer Audi R8 (race car) Can-Am Joest Racing Keiichi Tsuchiya Welter Racing World Sportscar Championship Bob Akin Derek Warwick Expand: Series All Japan Sports Prototype Championship Australian GT Championship Belcar British GT Championship FFSA GT Championship IMSA GT Championship International GT Open Interserie Italian GT Championship Spanish GT Championship Stéphane Ratel Organisation (SRO) - Organizer United States Road Racing Championship Races Japanese Grand Prix - Between 1964 to 1970, it was a race for sportscars Le Mans Legend Los Angeles Times Grand Prix Mil Milhas Brasil Teams Autodelta Brun Motorsport Dyson Racing Ecurie Francorchamps Ecurie Nationale Belge Epsilon Euskadi Freisinger Motorsport GReddy - Known as Trust Racing Team, Schuppan's 1983 JSPC winning Porsche 956 Konrad Motorsport Kremer Racing Larbre Compétition - Long running GT team Mazdaspeed - Barely any motorsports history mentioned NISMO - Almost no motorsports history discussed at all Oreca Pratt & Miller RE Amemiya - 2006 GT300 champion, famous rotary tuner SARD - Toyota's long term Super GT team Seikel Motorsport TOM'S Constructors Chaparral Cars Matra - barely mentions sportscar racing Morgan Motor Company - has a notable motorsport history Scuderia Ferrari and Ferrari - Mostly about F1, needs at least some sportscar history Team McLaren - Entirely talks about F1, needs info on Can-Am Sauber - Mostly talks about F1 history, needs more sportscar history Cars Davrian Epsilon Euskadi EE1 Jaguar XJR Sportscars Lancia LC1 Drivers Jean-Philippe Belloc Thomas Biagi Doc Bundy - needs to be rewritten as it is more of a POV article Chris Cord Marino Franchitti Fabrizio Gollin Masahiro Hasemi Mike Hezemans Kazuyoshi Hoshino Akira Iida Peter Kox Richard Lyons Satoshi Motoyama Manabu Orido Tetsuya Ota Christian Pescatori Archie Scott Brown Toshio Suzuki Yuji Tachikawa - 2001 Super GT champion Kunimitsu Takahashi Nobuteru Taniguchi Yojiro Terada Juichi Wakisaka - 2002 & 2006 Super GT champion James Weaver Others List of 24 Hours of Le Mans fatal accidents - some missing bits needs adding in Disambiguation: Stubs: Update: All of these articles need updates on speculated and confirmed entrants (with references), as well as updates to any news information in regard to rule changes, schedule changes, etc. 2009 Le Mans Series season 2009 FIA GT Championship season 2009 American Le Mans Series season 2009 Rolex Sports Car Series season 2009 Super GT season 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans NPOV: Other: Translations Japanese to English Wikipedia:Translation/Autobacs Racing Team Aguri Wikipedia:Translation/Akira Iida Wikipedia:Translation/Manabu Orido

[edit] Article needing clean-up

[edit] Tools

There are several tools to help editors create pages for sports car racing, especially when it comes to more specific articles.

[edit] Example Pages

The following example pages can be used by editors in order for us all to maintain similar styles when it comes to using these pages across Wikipedia:

• Individual Racing Seasons - Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports Car Racing/Example Season
• Individual Race Report - Wikipedia:WikiProject Sports Car Racing/Example Race

[edit] Templates

All templates will be able to be found in Sports Car Racing templates, however here are a few notable ones.

• {{Motorsport season}} - Used in season pages to link to the previous and following year.
• {{Sportscar Race Report}} - Used on individual race pages to link to the previous and following race.
• {{"Tire Company"}} - Tire templates. A full list is available in Category:Tire manufacturer templates.

Example: {{Michelin}} = M

• {{Le Mans drivers}} - Used for racers who have participated in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

General templates:

• {{WikiProject Sports Car Racing}} or {{WPSCR}} - Used on the talk pages of all articles having to do with sports car racing. Add to any article that you know of that does not contain it yet.

	WikiProject Sports Car Racing	Sports Car RacingWikipedia:WikiProject Sports Car RacingTemplate:WikiProject Sports Car RacingSports Car Racing articles
v • d • e This article is within the scope of WikiProject Sports Car Racing, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Sports Car Racing on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.

• {{User WP:SCR}} - Can be added to the user page of any member of the project.

This user is a member of WikiProject Sports Car Racing.

[edit] Categories

All pages should be linked in some way to categories. A list of all sports car racing categories currently created will be available in Category:Sports car racing.

Categories should following these rules:

• Individual races should be contained in a category named "Category:(Year) in (Series)"

Example: Category:2006 in the American Le Mans Series

• Individual seasons should be contained in a category named "Category:(Series)"

Example: Category:World Sportscar Championship

• Multiple years of the same race should be contained in a category named "Category:(Racing event) Races"

Example: Category:24 Hours of Le Mans races

[edit] Suggestions and Ideas

Anyone is welcome to suggest new ideas, changes, or anything else that they may think up. Feel free to use the project's talk page as you feel necessary.

[edit] Featured content

[edit] Featured articles

• Maserati MC12

[edit] Good articles

• 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans
• Richard Lloyd Racing
• Lancia LC2
• Howmet TX

[edit] Featured article candidates

[edit] Good article candidates

[edit] Did you know (DYK)s

• Aston Martin DBR1 - 10 January 2007
• McLaren F1 GTR - 9 March 2007
• Cadillac Northstar LMP - 18 April 2007
• 2007 Rolex 24 At Daytona - 20 April 2007
• IMSA GT Championship - 15 May 2007
• SARD - 19 July 2007
• Nissan R90C - 23 July 2007
• Nissan GTP ZX-Turbo - 8 August 2007
• TVR Tuscan Challenge - 27 August 2007
• Tetsuya Ota - 9 December 2007
• Lancia LC2 - 10 December 2007
• Richard Lloyd Racing - 25 December 2007
• Toyota 7 - 29 December 2007
• Howmet TX - 14 March 2008
• Dauer Sportwagen - 31 March 2008
• Embassy Racing - 19 May 2008
• Risi Competizione - 2 July 2008
• 1985 1000 km of Spa - 5 July 2008

[edit] Peer review requests

• Nissan R90C - 21 July 2007
• 2007 24 Hours of Le Mans - 16 August 2007
• List of 24 Hours of Le Mans fatal accidents - 15 November 2007

[edit] Helpful Links

[edit] Similar WikiProjects

• WikiProject Motorsport - Parent project of WP:SCR.
• WikiProject NASCAR
• WikiProject Formula One
• WikiProject World Rally
• WikiProject A1 Grand Prix
• WikiProject IROC
• WikiProject American Open Wheel Racing
• WikiProject British Motorsport

[edit] Series

• 24 Hours of Le Mans
• American Le Mans Series
• Grand American Road Racing Association
• Le Mans Series
• Japan Le Mans Challenge
• Super GT
• FIA GT Championship
• FIA GT3 European Championship
• British GT Championship

[edit] Results

• Race and Chassis history
• World Sports Racing Prototypes
• Le Mans Register
• Racing-Database
• Motorsport Almanac Archives
• Racing Sports Cars

[edit] Information

• Mulsanne's Corner
• Ten-Tenths Sportscar & GT Forum
• Dailysportscar (Note: subscription site)
  • Dailysportscar free archive (2003-2006)
• Motor Racing Circuits Database
• Sportscar Universe (French)
• Motorsport Almanac (1990 - 2001 news stories)