Talk:Daytona International Speedway

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I'm playing with categories. Does this look appropriate for this page? --Timc 18:07, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Not as good as it would with the table at the top and the category elsewhere, but this is what we have to deal with. Nothing we can really do about it except work around their design choices.

However, perhaps we should not specify the category as NASCAR race tracks... well... I dunno. We are supposed to use the most specific category, but then what do you put, say, Indianapolis Motor Speedway in? Perhaps this category should be more like American race tracks or American car race tracks or something along those lines. --Golbez 18:45, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

You are right, but I thought it would be fine to apply multiple categories for tracks like Indy. So, it would be NASCAR race tracks|IndyCar race tracks ... But, maybe American auto race tracks/circuits/courses would be a better category. Is NASCAR race tracks a sub-category then? I didn't apply the category to all of the race tracks so that we could have a chance to discuss this. That way I wouldn't get a response like when I added the big list of tracks.  :-)

Maybe the best thing to do is have Auto race tracks->NASCAR race tracks->Daytona International Speedway and Auto race tracks->NASCAR race tracks->Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Auto race tracks->IndyCar race tracks->Indianapolis Motor Speedway. But maybe the sub-category isn't necessary. --Timc 19:34, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Another possibility is Auto racing->NASCAR->Daytona International Speedway, Auto racing->NASCAR->Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Auto racing->IndyCar->Indianapolis Motor Speedway. --Timc 19:37, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

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A problem you could run into with that is, how many leagues are we going to include? Need to think about this... okay, how's this for an idea:

• Categories go Sports->Auto Racing->NASCAR, and this category includes List of NASCAR race tracks.
• Individual American race tracks can go into Sports->Auto Racing->U.S. car race tracks, AND also have a link to the list of tracks for their proper league, i.e. List of NASCAR race tracks.
• So far as I know, and I could be very wrong, the English don't enjoy using the word "auto" I think, so maybe that too should be changed to Car all around. I don't know, I'm not British. :) Let one of them fix it. ;)

So how does this solution sound? We keep the tracks themselves in a generic "U.S. car race tracks" category, and use the List of X race tracks pages to classify, AND keep the List of X race tracks pages in the categories for their leagues, like NASCAR and IndyCar. Sound good?

So, that's my idea - keep the individual track pages on a generic race track category, and keep the league lists in a league category. And to tie them all together, a generic List of American car race tracks or, hell, List of car race tracks, to tie them all together that would go into the Car race tracks category. (Or auto. I ain't making that choice, someone else do it. ;) Personally, "auto" flows better, but this is an international deal.)

I'm heavily rambling now, so any input you have, I welcome. :) --Golbez 22:55, 31 May 2004 (UTC)

Works for me. I'm not British, but neither am I American. Being Canadian, I applaud your ambiguity in using both "auto" and "car" for categories. "Auto racing"/"U.S. car race tracks". --Timc 13:55, 1 Jun 2004 (UTC)

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I'm curious about the "The World Center of Racing" sub tag - is this a phrase commonly associated with Daytona raceway? kibibu 02:17, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Yes, it's the nickname that the track has taken for itself. More of a marketing thing than anything else I think, but most of the NASCAR tracks seem to do it. Recury 03:16, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Infobox image

Call me crazy, but isn't a track map a better image image for an infobox? I cleaned up an aerial photo pixel by pixel, so it's to scale, and it's hard to find an accurate picture of the motorcycle course.Mustang6172 04:26, 13 July 2007 (UTC)