Talk:Allstate 400 at the Brickyard

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[edit] "Allstate - Title double"

The phrase comes from what was used by the Indianapolis Motor Speedway official website, in calling it a "Brickyard/Title...," not an "Allstate/Title..." Calling it Allstate, and acting like that's been its name for the majority of its years, is frankly idiotic. --4.225.20.38 15:01, 7 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Order of winners

Going from most recent to least recent, even if practice for other NASCAR race pages on wikipedia, is inferior to oldest to newest, because of the way the mind tends to go from first to last when going downward, and the first race was 1994 not 2005. Perhaps no one cares, but hopefully the Indy pages could be made as superlative as possible. --71.156.95.33 16:21, 12 May 2006 (UTC)

    • I agree with that point, I think ALL races should be listed in top-to-bottom, first-to-last order, as it is the logical way of listing things. Hwoever, the "policy" of the wiki NASCAR people is to list them backwards, so I guess that's the way it will be. In addition, I think eventually the races should be listed in table form, just as all of the college bowl games are. But I'm not going to take that on myself. Doctorindy 18:46, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
  • I would actually disagree. (OK, I'm not impartial, I'm a member of WP:NASCAR.) The reason that WP:NASCAR (and WP:F1, for that matter) list race winners in reverse chronological order, is the idea, "what have you done lately". My thinking is that most people looking up a race in here will want to know "who won last year" over "who won the first ever race". Upon looking at the talk for both WPs, I don't know as I see a clear consensus, other than there were no objections. If you want, bring it up. -slowpokeiv 21:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
    • That's a fair explanation, except I think it might be the only sports related group of lists that does it that way. No big deal really, just want it to be good. Doctorindy 22:49, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
  • Fair enough, and to be honest, I agree, no big deal, and I too want what's best/easiest to understand for the average reader. :) If chron, or reverse chron ends up being best, either is OK by me, I mainly want a standard across the articles, and all data represented to be accurate. :) -slowpokeiv 01:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)


[edit] Table for winners

I'm considering using a table for this, to bring it to the same level as the List of Indianapolis 500 winners and Daytona 500 list of winners. Should not take very long. Doctorindy 12:32, 8 August 2006 (UTC)

Nice job! -slowpokeiv 15:57, 8 August 2006 (UTC)
    • I think it is better....for those know notice such things, the first column directs the links to ("Year" in NASCAR, such as 2006 in NASCAR), with the full link disguised. Additional columns could also be appropriate. Doctorindy 16:23, 10 August 2006 (UTC)
  • I have been slowing adding NASCAR Cup Race Winners tables to all track pages. I have a set layout that I have been using and, if possible, I'd like it to be kept the same on all track pages if possible. See Texas Motor Speedway for an example. Phathead (talk) 20:09, 9 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Indiana assessment

This article needs to merge the trivia section into the article were applicable and delete the rest, expand its references, and write into prose format rather then a timeline-prose style. -Jahnx (talk) 05:23, 13 March 2008 (UTC)