It's bizarre that Auto racing is the flagship article for what in other languages is called automobile sport. Who uses the term auto racing outside of Wikipedia? The article has no supporting sources! Not all automobile sport is racing, I'd be disappointed to hear arguments that this is a good title.
I'm not proposing a move to automobile sport because I don't expect it to be supported. But does anybody support the notion that motor sport is the historic term encompassing cars, motorcyles, boats and planes; whilst motorsport is the common word for automobile sport even if it includes motorcycles? The FIA affiliated national sporting authorities of UK, Ireland, Australia, NZ, South Africa and USA all use motorsport (Canada: autosport). Although these are official, there's no doubt in my mind motorsport is the common use.
See this ngram. Motorsport became popular in the second half of the 20th century, long after boating and air sports had found their own terms. Newspapers.com may agree but is down at the moment.
Wonder if anybody supports moving Auto racing to Motorsport (automobile sport)? Or if Motorsport should cover both purposes. Rally Wonk (talk) 00:03, 30 September 2023 (UTC)
Pinging various editors who were active in the last (now archived :( ) discussion or who regularly edit the relevant IndyCar season articles. @Mark McWire, RegalZ8790, Tvx1, Mikulitsi, HotMAN0199, H4MCHTR, Migiditch, Glman, Finn Shipley, Cs-wolves, Vin28rol, MasterAlSpain, and Wildarms007:. Feel free to ping more.
For those maybe unaware, there was a discussion (at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Motorsport/Archive 24#IndyCar (schedule) tables a few months back about the use of (for lack of better term I can think of) icons used as a legend for schedule tables, specifically on those for American open-wheel car racing season articles (eg. 2024 IndyCar Series, 1988 CART PPG Indy Car World Series, 2006 Champ Car season etc.). The discussion was started by me on Mark McWire's talk page (later moved here), due to my opposition to him adding a new "icon" denoting street courses. The discussion ultimately went nowhere, with no consensus reached for anything.