Wikipedia:WikiProject Formula One/Newsletter/201001

{| class="collapsible collapsed" ! colspan="2" style="vertical-align:middle;width: 60%; background: #CCDDEE; border: 1px solid LightSlateGray; padding: 1em;" | The WikiProject Formula One Newsletter Year III · Issue 1 · January 1, 2010 – February 1, 2010 Previous month's issue
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 * New users
 * New members --
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 * New recipients --
 * (December 31)
 * New editors --
 * New editors --


 * WikiProject news
 * Check out Apterygial's My Insane Idea userproject, which aims to improve the 2008 Formula One season article and that season's Grands Prix to Featured Topic status.
 * Newsletter news


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 * Article developments


 * See also: WikiProject Formula One/Article alerts


 * Featured List Reviews --
 * List of Formula One drivers


 * New Good Articles --
 * 1995 British Grand Prix


 * Good Article Reviews --
 * Fittipaldi Automotive
 * Completed Peer Reviews --
 * 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix
 * Fernando Alonso
 * Ongoing Peer Reviews --
 * Grand Prix 2
 * New articles --
 * Lotus 92
 * Lotus 93T
 * Lotus 94T


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 * Editors' Comment
 * Users are always welcome to help us with this newsletter. If you are interested, please leave a message on an existing editor's talkpage or sign up on the "Contributors" list of the central newsletter page, and we will tell you everything you need to know and answer your questions. Current contributors --
 * Users are always welcome to help us with this newsletter. If you are interested, please leave a message on an existing editor's talkpage or sign up on the "Contributors" list of the central newsletter page, and we will tell you everything you need to know and answer your questions. Current contributors --

Article requests: Erich Zakowski, Daniele Coronna, Hans Fouche, Chris Radage, Giorgio Stirano, Steve Tarrant, Intertechnique, 10 Tenths Copyedit: Bahrain Grand Prix, History of Formula One, Monaco Grand Prix, 2006 San Marino Grand Prix, Rob White (Formula One), Rob Smedley Expand: F1-X Dubai, Honda RA271, Paddy Lowe, Red Bull RB3, Spyker F1, Toyota TF107, BMW Sauber F1.07, Mario Theissen, Franz Tost, Chinese Grand Prix, Colin Kolles, Concorde Agreement, Formula One Constructors Association, McLaren MP4/1, Ove Andersson, Bob Bell, Korean International Circuit, Grand Prix Drivers' Association, Spyker F8-VII, Arai (company), Shoei, Schuberth Helme GmbH, Bell Racing Company, Jim Bamber, Nazir Hoosein, Formula One video games, Make Cars Green, Jonathan Legard, Michael Turner (illustrator) more Update: History of Formula One, Toyota, Robert Doornbos, Formula One regulations, 2024 Formula One season, Future of Formula One, Scuderia Toro Rosso, Super Aguri F1, Divina Galica, Grand Prix World Championship 
 * How to help WPF1 --
 * Expand the articles in Category:Formula One stubs.
 * Read the project to-do list and help to complete the tasks:

Images needed: Max Mosley, Sakon Yamamoto, Jordan Grand Prix circa 1992-1997, Paddy Lowe, 2008 Turkish Grand Prix more  For more work, see this generated list or the Auxiliary list

Images
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Below is the F1 Picture of the month (found here). The picture has to be one uploaded in the last month and only from the current season.
 * It is exclusive to the Newsletter. REMEMBER, YOU CAN VOTE.



Article of the month - List of Formula One drivers, kept at Featured List status after review
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Formula One, abbreviated to F1, is the highest class of open-wheeled auto racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA), motorsport's world governing body. The "formula" in the name refers to a set of rules to which all participants and cars must conform. The F1 world championship season consists of a series of races, known as Grands Prix, held usually on purpose-built circuits, and in a few cases on closed city streets. Drivers are awarded points based on their position in each race, and the driver who accumulates the most points over each calendar year is crowned that year's World Champion. As of the 2009 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, there have been 820 FIA World Championship races since its first event, the 1950 British Grand Prix.

Seven-time champion Michael Schumacher holds the record for the most championships, while his 91 wins, 154 podium finishes and 68 pole positions are also records. Rubens Barrichello has entered more Grands Prix than anyone else&mdash;288 times in total&mdash;as well as having made an unsurpassed 284 race starts. The United Kingdom is the most represented nation, having produced a total of 157 different drivers. Eight nations have been represented by just one. Poland became the latest country to be represented by a driver when Robert Kubica made his Formula One debut at the 2006 Hungarian Grand Prix.

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2010 Teams and Races From 2010 Formula One season
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