Where the facts come from
Each race page draws on the English Wikipedia article for that race, and only that article, for its core record: date, track, winner, pole sitter, laps, distance and any incidents the article describes. If the article does not state a figure, the page leaves the field empty rather than filling it from memory. Reference pages on tracks, drivers and the season use the corresponding Wikipedia articles in the same way, and the season standings table is copied from the season article's results grid. The old Racin.net pages themselves serve as a record of what existed, meaning which sessions were covered for which race, and not as a source of numbers. The rebuild does not reproduce practice speeds from the old sheets, because those sheets are not on hand to check and a speed that cannot be checked is not worth printing. Every page ends with a list of the sources it used, with links.
- Race records: the race's own Wikipedia article.
- Track measurements: the track's Wikipedia article, with the configuration in force in 2000 noted where the track has since changed.
- Driver careers: the driver's Wikipedia article and the season article.
- Which sessions the old site covered: the old URL paths recorded in Wikipedia's link data.
Independence and the domain
The racin.net domain lapsed after the original site stopped publishing and was later re-registered by the present owner, who has no connection to the earlier operation. This rebuild is not affiliated with NASCAR, with any track, team, sponsor or driver, or with the original Racin.net staff, and it has asked for and received no endorsement from any of them. Trademarks and race names appear because they are the names of the events being described. The reason for keeping the old domain is practical: the addresses that Wikipedia cites are on it, and the point of the project is that those citations should reach a page that explains what they once pointed to.
Living people
Most of the drivers named on this site are alive, and all of them are public figures in a public sport. The rule here is career and race facts only, sourced to their Wikipedia articles: where they raced, what they won, what the standings said. Birth dates and hometowns appear when the article's lead states them. Nothing about family, health, finances or private conduct is included beyond what a Wikipedia lead itself says, and nothing is inferred. Drivers who died in or after the 2000 season, including Adam Petty, Kenny Irwin Jr. and Dale Earnhardt, are described in the same factual register: the date, the circumstances the sources give, and the consequences for the sport, without embellishment.
Public figures, public record, and nothing that the record does not say.
No reuse of the original text
No sentence, table, headline or layout from the original Racin.net has been copied into this site. The old pages were speed sheets and short reports written by other people, and their words belong to them. What survives of the original is the set of addresses and the knowledge that a practice or qualifying sheet once sat at each one. Everything readable here was written for this rebuild, in past tense, from the sources listed on each page. Corrections are welcome: if a date, a result or a measurement is wrong against its listed source, the page will be fixed and the change noted.