Wikipedia:WikiProject Formula One
Welcome to WikiProject Formula One. We aim to create, expand, update and standardize Wikipedia articles related to Formula One.
Introduction
Anyone who would like to take part in WikiProject Formula One is welcome to do so. The project aims primarily to create and standardize complete articles on all people, teams, races, and other aspects of Formula One.
If you are interested, please feel free to help, and add your name to the list. If you have any questions, please inquire on the project's talk page.
A list of articles needing cleanup associated with this project is available. See also the tool's wiki page and the index of WikiProjects.
Goals
- To divide the subject of Formula One into appropriate subtopics
- To gather complete and accurate information in all F1-related articles
- To standardize the appearance of F1-related pages, such as articles on grands prix, drivers, and constructors, as well as race reports and season summaries
- To maintain Portal:Formula One and keep all F1-related articles up-to-date
- To improve Formula One and as many related pages as possible to Featured Article standard
Members
Feel free to add yourself to the list. Once you've done this, you may want to put the Wikiproject:Formula One user box on your user page by adding {{User WP:F1}}.
How to help
- Complete a task on one of the to-do lists:
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Formula One/Task template, which appears on the project's talk page template as well as the F1 Portal
- Wikipedia:WikiProject Formula One/To-do, the auxiliary list
- Help with the management of Portal:Formula One
- Contribute 'Did you know's at Portal talk:Formula One/Did you know
- Request an article by adding it to one of the to-do lists.
- Pick an old race report article and standardize it according to the guidelines below. A complete list may be found at List of Formula One races#Races by season.
- Keep an eye on recent edits to all Formula One-related articles.
- Help clean-up articles listed here.
Featured content
- For All Featured content on Wikipedia, see Wikipedia:Featured content
Some of the content supported by WikiProject Formula One has reached featured article, featured list or featured picture status (FA, FL and FP, respectively), meaning they are amongst the very best content in Wikipedia. They are listed below; a bold title indicates the article was "today's featured article" for the date listed. Also included here are articles that are either featured article candidates (FAC), FAC's that failed, those that have undergone peer review (PR) as part of an effort to get them to FA status, and those that have achieved good article (GA) status, the next-highest level of quality.
Articles
Lists
Pictures
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Portals
| Portal | Status | Peer Review | FPOC |
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Featured Portal | PR | FPOC |
Types of articles
Formula One and its series
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The sport's primary article is the "top" article of a series which includes four other related topics. The Wikipedians who created these articles intended to divide the topic of Formula One into specific subtopics, and chose the four topics they thought would best accomplish this goal. The appropriateness of the subtopics is open to discussion.
All five articles should include the template {{Formula One}} at the top.
- Formula One is the main article for the sport, including general information; summaries of the articles on history, cars, and racing; general sections on drivers/constructors, grands prix, and circuits; a section noting the important people in F1's history; a 'current season' section; and a section on the Future of F1.
- History of Formula One – the sport's history, in detail. This should include major regulation changes, major technical advances, and the most important drivers and constructors of each era.
- Formula One cars – a detailed description of the modern F1 car. Information about historical F1 cars belongs in the History article.
- Formula One racing – the schedule and procedure of an F1 grand prix weekend; information about racing strategy.
- Formula One regulations – both current and historical information on the FIA's technical and sporting regulations.
Lists
There are twenty-four Formula One-related lists. These should be historically complete, and include the template {{Formula One}}. Each, when updated, should also be marked "Accurate as of [date]" in order to assist future editors.
- List of Formula One broadcasters
- List of Formula One circuits
- List of Formula One constructors
- List of Formula One drivers
- List of Formula One engines
- List of Formula One fatal accidents
- List of Formula One Grands Prix
- List of Formula One World Championship points scoring systems
- List of Formula One Promotional Trophy winners
- List of Formula One records
- List of Formula One driver records
- List of red-flagged Formula One races
- List of Formula One seasons
- List of Formula One World Champions
Race reports
A long-term goal of this project is to create articles containing a summary of every Formula One race since the sport's inception in 1950.
Thanks to a bot written by Bill Cook, articles containing full classifications of every past race now exist, but most need summaries and many need standardization.
The standard structure may be found at Wikipedia:WikiProject Formula One/Example race report. The wikitext is annotated with comments and may be copied to assist with the creation of a new report.
The infobox templates to use for race report articles is {{Infobox Grand Prix race report}}, which caters for both Championship and non-Championship races. A cut and paste pro forma is available at the template doc page.
Seasons
All season summary articles contain, as a minimum:
- an overview of the season
- a table of entrants
- a Drivers' Championship table
- a Constructors' Championship table (from 1958 onwards)
Articles for more recent season contain additional information. As a general rule, the current season article is in the "ideal" format; future season summary articles should use the same format.
Grands Prix
There should be a complete article on every race which has been a part of the Formula One calendar since the series started in 1950 (see List of Formula One Grands Prix). Each article should contain:
- At the top, an infobox:
{{F1 race
|Name = [[Australia]]n Grand Prix
|Flag = Flag of Australia.svg
|Circuit = [[Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit]]
|Circuit_image = Circuit Albert Park.png
|Laps = 58
|Circuit_length_km = 5.303
|Circuit_length_mi = 3.295
|Race_length_km = 307.574
|Race_length_mi = 191.110
|Lap_record = 1:24.125 ([[2004 Formula One season|2004]]) <br> {{flagicon|Germany}} [[Michael Schumacher]]
|Most_wins_driver = {{flagicon|Australia}} [[Lex Davison]](non championship races) (4)<br/>{{flagicon|Germany}} [[Michael Schumacher]] (4)
|Most_wins_constructor = {{flagicon|ITA}} [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] (10) <br />{{flagicon|UK}} [[McLaren]] (10)
|Current_year = 2008
|Winner = {{flagicon|UK}} [[Lewis Hamilton]]
|Winning_team = [[McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]
|Winning_time = 1:34:50.616 (194.578 km/h)
|Pole_driver = {{flagicon|UK}} [[Lewis Hamilton]]
|Pole_team = [[McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]
|Pole_time = 1:26.714
|Fastest_lap_driver = {{flagicon|Finland}} [[Heikki Kovalainen]]
|Fastest_lap_team = [[McLaren]]-[[Mercedes-Benz|Mercedes]]
|Fastest_lap = 1:27.418
}}- History. This should cover all F1 races held under that name, and should note changes in venue, and the reasons for the change. The history should also cover races from other series held under the same name, if applicable.
- A reverse-chronological list of winners in table format, including year, driver, constructor, location, and links to the relevant race reports, formatted thus:
| Year | Driver | Constructor | Location | Report |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Giancarlo Fisichella | Renault | Melbourne | Report |
| 2004 | Michael Schumacher | Ferrari | Melbourne | Report |
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size: 95%;"
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! Year
! Driver
! Constructor
! Location
! Report
|-
! [[2005 Formula One season|2005]]
| [[Giancarlo Fisichella]]
| [[Renault Sport|Renault]]
| [[Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit|Melbourne]]
| [[2005 Australian Grand Prix|Report]]
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! [[2004 Formula One season|2004]]
| [[Michael Schumacher]]
| [[Ferrari]]
| [[Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit|Melbourne]]
| [[2004 Australian Grand Prix|Report]]
|}- If a grand prix was only run once, there need not be a table of winners; instead, the race report article should redirect to the race's article, and the article should be structured like a race report.
- If a grand prix was run as a non-Championship event in some years (e.g. Moroccan Grand Prix), then those years should be highlighted in pink in the results chart.
- At the bottom, the template {{Formula One races}}.
- All articles on F1 grands prix should be also part of Category:Formula One Grands Prix.
Circuits
- All F1 circuit articles (i.e. any circuit ever used for an F1 race) should include an infobox:
{{Motorsport venue
| Name = Melbourne Grand Prix Circuit
| Location = [[Albert Park]], [[Melbourne]], [[Australia]]
| Time = [[GMT]] +/- 00
| Image = [[Image:Australiagprix.png|230px]]
| Events = [[Formula One]]; [[V8 Supercar]]s; [[Carrera Cup]]; [[Formula Ford]]
| Length_km = 5.30
| Length_mi = 3.30
| Turns = 16
| Record_time = 1'24.125
| Record_driver = [[Michael Schumacher]]
| Record_team = [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
| Record_year = 2004
}}
- All articles on F1 circuits should be also part of Category:Formula One circuits.
Drivers
- All articles on F1 drivers should be part of the relevant national subcategory of Category:Formula One drivers and should contain the infobox, {{Infobox F1 driver}}.
- Example of {{Infobox F1 driver}} for a current driver (Fernando Alonso):
{{Infobox F1 driver
| name = Fernando Alonso
| image = Senyum Fernando Alonso di Jepang 2011.jpg
| caption = Alonso at the [[2011 Japanese Grand Prix]].
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1981|7|29|df=y}}
| nationality = {{flagicon|Spain}} [[Spain|Spanish]]
| 2011 Team = [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
| 2011 Car number = 5
| 2012 Team = [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]]
| 2012 Car number = 5
| Races = 178 (177 starts)
| Championships = 2 ({{F1|2005}}, {{F1|2006}})
| Wins = 27
| Podiums = 73
| Points = 1,086
| Poles = 20
| Fastest laps = 19
| First race = [[2001 Australian Grand Prix]]
| First win = [[2003 Hungarian Grand Prix]]
| Last win = [[2011 British Grand Prix]]
| Last race = {{Latest F1GP}}
| Last season = 2011
| Last position = 4th (257 pts)
}}
- Example of {{Infobox F1 driver}} for a former driver (Ayrton Senna):
{{Infobox F1 driver
|name = Ayrton Senna
|image = Ayrton Senna Imola 1989 Cropped.jpg
|caption = Senna at the [[1989 San Marino Grand Prix]]
|nationality = {{BRA}}ian
|birth_date = {{birth date|1960|3|21|df=y}}
|birth_place = [[São Paulo]], [[Brazil]]
|death_date = {{death date and age|1994|5|1|1960|3|21|df=y}}
|death_place = [[Bologna]], [[Italy]]
|Years = {{F1|1984}}–{{F1|1994}}
|Team(s) = [[Toleman]], [[Team Lotus|Lotus]], [[McLaren (racing)|McLaren]], [[WilliamsF1|Williams]]
|Races = 162 (161 starts)
|Championships = 3 ({{F1|1988}}, {{F1|1990}}, {{F1|1991}})
|Wins = 41
|Podiums = 80
|Points = 610 (614)
|Poles = 65
|Fastest laps = 19
|First race = [[1984 Brazilian Grand Prix]]
|First win = [[1985 Portuguese Grand Prix]]
|Last win = [[1993 Australian Grand Prix]]
|Last race = [[1994 San Marino Grand Prix]]
}}
Constructors
- All constructors' articles should be categorised as Category:Formula One constructors. Current constructors should have an infobox, {{Infobox F1 team}}, at the top:
{{Infobox F1 team
| Constructor_name = {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} Williams-Cosworth
| Long_name = AT&T Williams
| Logo = [[File:Logo AT&T Williams 2011.png|200px]]
| Base = [[Grove, Oxfordshire|Grove]], [[Oxfordshire]], United Kingdom
| Principal = [[Frank Williams (Formula One)|Sir Frank Williams]]<br/> [[Patrick Head]]<br/> [[Adam Parr]] (CEO)
| Director = [[Mike Coughlan]]
| Website = {{URL|www.attwilliams.com}}
| 2011 Drivers = 11. {{flagicon|Brazil}} [[Rubens Barrichello]]<br/>12. {{flagicon|Venezuela}} [[Pastor Maldonado]]
| 2011 Test_drivers = {{flagicon|Finland}} [[Valtteri Bottas]]
| 2011 Chassis = [[Williams FW33]]
| 2011 Engine = [[Cosworth]]
| 2011 Tyres = [[Pirelli]]
| 2011 Fuel = [[Petrobras]]
| Debut = [[1978 Argentine Grand Prix]]
| Final = {{Latest F1GP}}
| Races = 558
| Cons_champ = 9 ({{F1|1980}}, {{F1|1981}}, {{F1|1986}}, {{F1|1987}}, {{F1|1992}}, {{F1|1993}}, {{F1|1994}}, {{F1|1996}}, {{F1|1997}})
| Drivers_champ = 7 ({{F1|1980}}, {{F1|1982}}, {{F1|1987}}, {{F1|1992}}, {{F1|1993}}, {{F1|1996}}, {{F1|1997}})
| Wins = 113
| Poles = 126
| Fastest_laps = 130
| Last_season = 2011
| Last_position = 9th (5 pts)
}}
For a former F1 Team such as British American Racing, use {{Infobox former F1 team}}:
{{Infobox former F1 team
| Logo = [[Image:BAR logo.gif]]
| Short_name = BAR Honda
| Long_name = British American Racing
| Base = [[Brackley]], [[Northamptonshire]], [[United Kingdom]]
| Founders = [[Craig Pollock]]
| Staff = [[Adrian Reynard]]<br>[[David Richards (racing)|David Richards]]<br>[[Nick Fry]]
| Drivers = {{flagicon|Canada}}[[Jacques Villeneuve]]<br/>{{flagicon|Brazil}}[[Ricardo Zonta]]<br/>{{flagicon|Finland}}[[Mika Salo]]<br/>{{flagicon|France}}[[Olivier Panis]]<br/>{{flagicon|Japan}}[[Takuma Sato]]<br/>{{flagicon|UK}}[[Jenson Button]]<br/>{{flagicon|UK}}[[Anthony Davidson]]
| Debut = [[1999 Australian Grand Prix]]
| Races = 118
| Cons_champ = 0
| Drivers_champ = 0
| Wins = 0
| Poles = 2
| Fastest_laps = 0
| Last race = [[2005 Chinese Grand Prix]]
}}
Cars
- All Formula One car articles need to be categorised either under the general Category:Formula One cars or the specific manufacturer category, and should have an infobox, {{Infobox racing car}}, at the top:
{{Infobox racing car
| Car_name = Tyrrell 006
| Logo = [[Image:Tyrrell.gif]]
| Category = [[Formula One]]
| Constructor = [[Tyrrell Racing|Tyrrell Racing Organisation]]
| Designer = [[Derek Gardner]]
| Team = [[Tyrrell Racing|Elf Team Tyrrell]]
| Drivers = [[François Cevert]],<br>[[Jackie Stewart]],<br>[[Patrick Depailler]],<br>[[Jody Scheckter]]
| Chassis = [[Aluminium]] [[monocoque]]
| Front suspension = [[Double wishbone suspension|Double wishbone]], outboard [[Spring (device)|spring]]/[[shock absorber|damper]].
| Rear suspension = Single top-link, parallel lower-links, twin [[Radius rod|radius arms]], outboard [[Spring (device)|spring]]/[[shock absorber|damper]].
| Engine name = [[Ford]]-[[Cosworth DFV]]
| Capacity = 2993[[cubic centimetre|cc]]
| Configuration = [[V8 engine|V8]]
| Turbo/NA = [[naturally aspirated]]
| Engine position = [[Mid-engine]]d, [[longitudinal engine| longitudianlly mounted]]
| Gearbox name = [[Hewland]] FG400
| Gears = 5-speed
| Type = [[Manual transmission|manual]]
| Differential = [[ZF Friedrichshafen|ZF]] [[Differential (mechanics)|differential]]
| Fuel = [[Elf Aquitaine|Elf]]
| Tyres = [[Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company|Goodyear]]
| Debut = [[1972 Canadian Grand Prix]],<br>[[Mosport Park]].
| Races = 18
| Wins = 5
| Cons_champ = 0
| Drivers_champ = '''1''' ([[1973 Formula One season|1973]])
| Poles = 3
| Fastest_laps = 2
}}
For an unformatted, cut-and-paste pro forma, please see this template's doc page. For Formula One articles, most details should be available. Otherwise simply leave blank any unknown fields and enter n/a for irrelevant or highly variable fields. Many customer cars will have had highly variable set up, I would suggest using either the most common configuration (if such a thing exists) or simply stating a brief range of options in lieu of precise specifications.
People
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Updating
Since Formula One is a constantly-changing subject, its pages need constant updating. Click here for a list of what needs to be updated and when.
Templates
Templates should be inserted using the syntax {{Formula One}}.
- Navigation templates:
- {{Formula One}} – top of Formula One, the articles in that series, and the six F1 lists.
- {{Formula One teams}} – bottom of articles on currently active teams and drivers.
- {{Formula One races}} – bottom of every grand prix article (i.e. every article listed on the template, and at List of Formula One Grands Prix).
- Custom templates:
- {{Infobox F1 team}} – top of all F1 constructor/team articles; see above
- {{F1 race}} – top of all grand prix articles; see above
- {{infobox F1 driver}} – top of all driver articles; see above
- {{Racing car}} – top of all car articles; see above
- {{F1 race report}} – bottom of all race report articles; see above
- Others:
- {{F1 driver results legend 2}} – to accompany driver results tables of the sort at 2005 Formula One season#Driver _results.
- {{F1-stub}} – all Formula One-related stubs, except for biographies ({{F1-bio-stub}}). Use {{motorsport-stub}} for more general motorsport stubs.
- {{WikiProject Formula One}} – this WikiProject's template; belongs at the top of the talk page of every F1-related article. For more details on its use, see Wikipedia:WikiProject Formula One/Assessment
- {{WikiProject Formula One Member}} – for use on user pages.
- {{User WP:F1}} – userbox
Categories
- Category:Formula One – F1-related articles which don't fit into one of the sub-categories listed below
- Category:Formula One drivers – articles about any driver who has started in a Formula One race
- Category:Formula One entrants – articles about entities which have entered Formula One races (commonly referred to as "teams", but also includes individuals)
- Category:Formula One constructors – articles about constructors of chassis. Does not include teams which did not construct their own chassis, e.g. BMS Scuderia Italia
- Category:Formula One engine manufacturers – articles about companies which have maufactured F1 engines
- Category:Formula One circuits – articles about circuits, such as Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari
- Category:Formula One Grands Prix – articles about a single race, such as Monaco Grand Prix
- Category:Formula One non-Championship races – articles about races run to World Championship regulations, but that were not eligible for Championship points, such as the BRDC International Trophy.
- Category:Formula One race reports – articles about a specific race in a specific year, such as 2004 Monaco Grand Prix
- Category:Formula One seasons – season review articles, such as 2004 Formula One season
Assessment
| Formula One articles by quality and importance | |||||||
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| Quality | Importance | ||||||
| Top | High | Mid | Low | NA | Total | ||
 FA
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5 | 8 | 13 | ||||
| FL
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3 | 6 | 3 | 4 | 16 | ||
 GA
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2 | 9 | 32 | 81 | 124 | ||
| B | 24 | 29 | 53 | 104 | 210 | ||
| C | 30 | 70 | 120 | 337 | 557 | ||
| Start | 12 | 120 | 372 | 1,410 | 1,914 | ||
| Stub | 6 | 121 | 1,317 | 1,444 | |||
| List | 10 | 23 | 23 | 1 | 57 | ||
| Category | 720 | 720 | |||||
| Disambig | 17 | 17 | |||||
| File | 181 | 181 | |||||
| Portal | 34 | 34 | |||||
| Project | 113 | 113 | |||||
| Redirect | 1 | 1 | 11 | 2,147 | 2,160 | ||
| Template | 343 | 343 | |||||
| NA | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Other | 1 | 6 | 7 | ||||
| Assessed | 73 | 256 | 732 | 3,288 | 3,564 | 7,913 | |
| Total | 73 | 256 | 732 | 3,288 | 3,564 | 7,913 | |
| WikiWork factors (?) | ω = 21,340 | Ω = 5.01 | |||||
Article alerts
Good article nominees
- 13 Oct 2024 – 2001 San Marino Grand Prix (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by EnthusiastWorld37 (t · c); start discussion
Standard table formats
Standard formats for the Driver and Constructor/team summary tables are defined here.
Other conventions
Other conventions observed throughout the Formula One articles are listed here.
External links
- F1 official site
- BBC Sport – F1 BBC F1 Website
- newsonf1 – contains detailed statistics and race results
- GrandPrix.com – all race results since 1950, detailed driver profiles
- FIA Official Site – all race results archived
- StatsF1 – all race results, qualifying results, fastest laps archived, as well as interesting F1 facts
- ITV-F1 all the latest Formula One news
- Wikiproject Watchlist – WikiProject Formula One