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WikiProject Australian motorsport is a project to help create, improve and maintain articles relating to motorsport in Australia.

Articles maintained by this WikiProject are grouped in Category:WikiProject Australian motorsport articles and their importance in the context of Australian motorsport indicated by using the motorsport and motorsport-importance parameters within the {{WikiProject Australia}} template.

Usage: {{WikiProject Australia|motorsport=yes|motorsport-importance=xxx}}, where "xxx" = "Top", "High", "Mid", "Low" or "NA"

Scope

The aim of this project is to meet the following objectives regarding Australian motorsport including the V8 Supercar series:

  • Create driver, team, circuit and event information templates
  • Upload photographs of all current drivers and past champions (at least) in major series
  • Gather statistics and data for all recent drivers, teams, circuits and seasons
  • Formulate a standardised page layout for drivers, teams, circuits and seasons
  • Bring the quality of existing articles up to at least C-class, preferably higher

Parentage

The parent WikiProject is WikiProject Australian sports, a child of WikiProject Australia. There is also parentage to WikiProject Motorsport.

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Requirements

Anybody interested in V8 Supercars, Australian motorsport or even just motorsport in general is encouraged to help out.

Members

Add your username here to join.

Templates

Infobox for V8 Supercar drivers

This is to add to V8 Supercar driver pages such as Craig Lowndes (example on right, image removed to save space). It is usually embedded within the standard racing driver infobox. It was modelled on the Formula One and MotoGP driver/rider infoboxes. See Template:Infobox V8 Supercar record for full details.

{{Infobox racing driver
| name             = 
| image            = 
| caption          = 
| nationality      = 
| birth_date       = {{Birth date and age|year|month|day|df=yes}}
| record template1 =
{{Infobox V8 Supercar record|embed=yes
| car number            =
| team                  = 
| races                 = 
| championships         = 
| wins                  = 
| podiums               = 
| poles                 = 
| position year         = 
| championship position = 
}}
}}

Infobox for V8 Supercar teams

This is to add to V8 Supercar team pages such as Holden Racing Team (example on right, image removed to save space). It was modelled on the Formula One and MotoGP team infoboxes. See Template:Infobox V8 Supercar team for full details.

{{Infobox V8 Supercar team
| Short_name    = 
| Logo          = 
| Manufacturer  = 
| Principal     = 
| Manager       = 
| Drivers       = 
| Chassis       = 
| Debut         = 
| Drivers_champ = 
| Wins          = 
| Race_wins     = 
| Poles         = 
| Last_season   = 
| Last_position = 
}}

V8 Supercar current season navbox

This should be added to the current season page as well as all drivers, teams and events which are part of the current season. Full details can be found at Template:V8 Supercar Teams.

{{V8 Supercar Teams}}

V8 Supercar race report infobox

This is to add to race report articles such as 2016 Clipsal 500 Adelaide (example on right, image removed to save space). See Template:Infobox V8 Supercar race report for full details.

{{Infobox V8 Supercar race report
| flag         = 
| title        = 
| non_champ    = 
| round_no     = 
| season_no    = 
| year         = 
| series       = 
| track_map    = 
| date         = 
| location     = 
| circuit      = 
| weather      = 
| race1_laps   = 
| race1_dist   = 
| pole1        = 
| pole1_team   = 
| pole1_time   = 
| winner1      = 
| winner1_team = 
| winner1_time = 
| race2_laps   = 
| race2_dist   = 
| pole2        = 
| pole2_team   = 
| pole2_time   = 
| winner2      = 
| winner2_team = 
| winner2_time = 
| race3_laps   = 
| race3_dist   = 
| pole3        = 
| pole3_team   = 
| pole3_time   = 
| winner3      = 
| winner3_team = 
| winner3_time = 
| race4_laps   = 
| race4_dist   = 
| pole4        = 
| pole4_team   = 
| pole4_time   = 
| winner4      = 
| winner4_team = 
| winner4_time = 
| first_round  = 
| first_pts    = 
| second_round = 
| second_pts   = 
| third_round  = 
| third_pts    = 
}}

V8 Supercars event infobox

This is to add to event articles such as Clipsal 500 Adelaide (example on right, images removed to save space). See Template:V8 supercar race for full details.

{{V8 supercar race
|flag            = 
|title           = 
|logo            = 
|circuit         = 
|track_map       = 
|times_held      = 
|first_held      = 
|last_held       = 
|race1_laps      = 
|race1_distance  = 
|race2_laps      = 
|race2_distance  = 
|race3_laps      = 
|race3_distance  = 
|last_year       = 
|last_event_link = 
|overall_winner  = 
|overall_team    = 
|race1_winner    = 
|race1_team      = 
|race2_winner    = 
|race2_team      = 
|race3_winner    = 
|race3_team      = 
|race4_winner    = 
|race4_team      = 
}}

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