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  • David Phillips
    Editor and Chief
    David Phillips is a long-time contributor to print and electronic publications in the U.S. and abroad, including Racer, Autosport, AutoWeek, Motor Sport and SPEEDtv.com, oversees the daily updating of news stories and assigns, edits and contributes feature material for inRacingNews.com.
  • Chris Hall
    iRacing.com Series Writer
    Chris Hall has been writing since the nineties and moved into motorsports reporting in 2005, covering series such as ALMS, British GT, FIA GT, Le Mans and 2CV racing for Full Throttle magazine, Motorsport.com, The-Paddock.net, GTGateway.com, L' Endurance and, of course, inRacingNews. During 2008 and 2009, he worked with the RSS Performance Porsche Carrera Cup Team (and former British GT(C) champions) as a data engineer for a variety of drivers and models of 997s.
  • Jameson Spies
    Contributing Writer
    19 years old, Jameson Spies lives in Quartz Hill, California. He grew-up surrounded by racing. His mother raced late models throughout Southern California while his father built and setup the car. Not surprisingly, Jameson began racing go-karts at the age of 13, and is now racing Spec Trucks at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. He has a passion about all forms of racing and hopes to make a career out of it.
  • Jason Lofing
    iRacing.com Series Writer
    Jason is 21 years old and was born and raised in Elk Grove. California. A big time NASCAR fan, he hasn’t missed a race on Sunday in years. Lofing is also a huge San Fransisco Giants fan and tries to take in at least a couple games a year. Other than sim racing, his biggest (and far more expensive!) hobby is photography. Although he is rather new to sim racing, Lofing has already accomplished some pretty impressive results, qualifying for the 2011 iRacing Oval Pro Series in Season 1, 2011, winning the inaugural Landon Cassill Qualifying Challenge and finishing runner-up in the second one.
  • Ray Bryden
    Technical contributor
    Ray grew up in Nova Scotia, which means he’s a hockey nut, but in Nova Scotia’s two non-winter months he had to find other diversions, which meant watching F1 racing on weekends with his dad and brothers. Without the resources to get started in racing, he gravitated to computer versions of racing – first Atari games like Pole Position, followed by PC racing games like Indianapolis 500: The Simulation. Dozens of others came and went, until Grand Prix Legends came along and he decided sim-racing was his official hobby. Years were spent enjoying this both offline and online until a few years of fatherhood took priority. When free-time reappeared he heard about iRacing and signed up in 2008 and became so involved in the service that he wrote one of the first books on the subject of sim-racing, iRacing Paddock. When not writing for inRacingNews.com, his main occupation is as a research associate with Saint-Gobain working on advanced ceramic materials.
  • Patrick Atherton
    Contributing Writer
    Patrick Atherton, originally from Adelaide in the state of South Australia, currently resides just outside of Melbourne, Victoria with wife of 17 years and 3 kids. A business manager by profession, but also dabbles with blogging, cartooning and fine art, having been published both as a writer in a short-lived South Australian motorsport yearbook and later as a cartoonist in a niche trade magazine. At the age of 19 he competed in club circuit events in an Austin Healey Sprite, later indulging in sprint karts between 1994 and 2000. Following the move to the State of Victoria he raced Road Race Karts (“Superkarts” as they are known in Australia) in the popular Rotax class, competing at Phillip Island, Oran Park, Mallala, Wakefield Park, Eastern Creek, Calder Park, Sandown and Winton. It was during this time he met former Australian F2 champion and inventor of Australia’s first, and most prolific race simulator rig, Jon Crooke. This culminated in an introduction to Papyrus’ legendary NR2003 simulation, and the subsequent sim racing addiction which brought him to iRacing.
  • Tim Terry
    Contributing Writer
    Tim Terry, aka the voice of Maritime stock car racing, fell in love with sim racing in 2004 after he joined the Sim Racing Network crew as a pit reporter. From October 2004 to SRNtv’s closure in June 2007, he’s covered prestigious races and leagues such as the Online 500, FLM Fall 400, Real Racing Online and the DMP Racing League – each as the lead broadcaster for the company. At the same time the wheels started to turn in another direction as he began announcing stock car racing locally. Terry became the assistant announcer at Scotia Speedworld in May 2007 and took over full duties in May 2009 when long-time voice Mike Kaplan retired from the track. Terry also became the series voice of the Parts For Trucks Pro Stock Tour in ’09 and continues to hold down both posts in 2011. He has also announced races for the Pro All Stars Series, Atlantic Open Wheel and Maritime League of Legends tours and has called races at six different Atlantic Canadian tracks. Terry can be heard online at WebRacingNetwork.com, RLMtv.com and OLRtv.com covering sim races. He also makes occasional appearances on PSRtv.com. In addition to inRacingNews, his articles and columns can be read on ScotiaSpeedworld.ca, MaritimeProStockTour.com and his own website at timterryonline.com.
  • David Allen
    Contributing Writer
    North Carolina born and raised with over 15 years of computer/IT experience, I combine two of my biggest hobbies -- racing and technology -- here at inRacingNews. In my spare time I run a Nascar fan site and cure my own need for speed riding atvs. If it involves technology or racing I'll be there, but combine the two and I'll be looking a front row seat. Stop by and say hello anytime!
  • Allen Krier
    Contributing Writer
    Allen was born in West Palm Beach, Florida but grew up in Atlanta and attended Georgia College and State University where he received a BS in Information Systems. Currently a resident of Albany, GA, he started sim racing in 2008 while in college when iRacing was first released to the public. Since then, Krier has been a two time iRacing Pro Series driver (2009 and 2010), picking up one Pro Series win at Daytona in ‘09. Besides sim racing, Allen’s other hobbies include RC Car racing as well as “attending and watching any sporting event that I can including going to the local dirt track.

Simoncelli beats Aoyama at Indy

August 30th, 2009

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Marco Simoncelli has taken a strong victory in the 250cc Indianapolis Grand Prix to reduce the points gap to championship leader Hiroshi Aoyama. The Gilera rider, who lost one position at the start from third on the grid, took the lead on lap 4 from Matteoni Aprilia’s Jules Cluzel – who made a perfect getaway from fifth to lead at the first corner – and resisted race-long pressure from Aoyama. The two rivals – now separated by 27 points with Alvaro Bautista in the middle – were running close to each other until five laps from the end of the 26-lap race, when a small mistake by the Scot Honda rider allowed Simoncelli to begin opening a small gap that was widened with two consecutive fastest laps by the Italian.

Belgium Sunday quotes: Ferrari

August 30th, 2009

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Kimi Raikkonen – 1st: “A great victory for me and the team. The champagne tastes the same wherever you are on the podium, but the feeling when you win is definitely different

Espargaro scores maiden win at Indy

August 30th, 2009

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Pol Espargaro has taken his maiden victory in an exciting 125cc Indianapolis Grand Prix. The Derbi rider, who started the 23-lap race from fourth, took the lead from fellow Spaniard Nicolas Terol (Jack&Jones Aprilia) on the penultimate lap and resisted the challenge from Aspar Aprilia’s Bradley Smith

Q and A with Vijay Mallya

August 30th, 2009

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Q and A with Vijay Mallya

Q. Two year’s ago were you expecting you would get a podium so soon?

Mallya ‘very proud’ of team performance

August 30th, 2009

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Mallya ‘very proud’ of team performance

Force India team boss Vijay Mallya says he is very proud of his team’s performance at the Belgian Grand Prix after scoring its first Formula 1 points with a podium finish. Giancarlo Fisichella finished in second position in the Spa race after fighting for victory with Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen all throughout the event. Although Fisichella looked faster, he was unable to pass Raikkonen, the Finn having the benefit of KERS.

Badoer eyes points finish at Monza

August 30th, 2009

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Badoer eyes points finish at Monza

Luca Badoer believes that he can score points at Monza next month if he retains his seat despite being classified last in the Belgian Grand Prix. The Italian, who returned to F1 racing after almost a decade as a test driver at last week’s European Grand Prix, is tipped to be replaced for the Italian Grand Prix. But Badoer believes that the experience he has built up over the past two weekends means he is now ready to fight for a top eight finish

Jackson makes it two out of three

August 30th, 2009

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Mat Jackson made it two wins from three British Touring Car Championship races at Silverstone with a close-run victory in the final race of the day. The RML Chevrolet driver made a rocket start from seventh on the grid to move up to third by the second lap, and then put a sensational late move on Colin Turkington to claim second at Maggotts next time round. He then set off in chase of race leader Rob Collard, who started from pole in his Motorbase BMW, turning a three-second deficit into nothing in just a handful of laps

Belgium Sunday quotes: Williams

August 30th, 2009

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Nico Rosberg – 8th: We got absolutely the maximum out of today and so I am not so unhappy with the result. Even though the car was not good at all on Friday, we moved it forward and had a reasonable qualifying.

Belgium Sunday quotes: Force India

August 30th, 2009

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Adrian Sutil – 12th: It was a great weekend for the team, particularly for Giancarlo. He did a great race today, second position, which is a big achievement for everyone. We have clearly made a very good step and I think today anything was possible and we can look forward to the next race.

No reason to be down, says Button

August 30th, 2009

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No reason to be down, says Button

Jenson Button says he sees no reason to be down despite yet another disappointing result at the Belgian Grand Prix. The championship leader, starting from 14th on the grid, retired from the Spa race and has now failed to finish on the podium for five consecutive events

Hero status awaits Fisichella at Monza

August 30th, 2009

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Hero status awaits Fisichella at Monza

Giancarlo Fisichella’s manager Enrico Zanarini says the Italian can expect a hero’s welcome, regardless of who he drives for, when he races in Monza in two week’s time following his performance in Spa.

K plus K takes Hungaroring win

August 30th, 2009

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K plus K takes Hungaroring win

Karl Wendlinger and Ryan Sharp recovered from two incidents to take the K plus K Saleen’s second victory of the year in the Hungaroring round of the FIA GT Championship. The silver Saleen survived an early assualt from Alex Muller’s Vitaphone Maserati, which had dropped back from pole to third at the start as Enrique Bernoldi shot from row two to the lead in the Sangari Corvette.

FIA to launch probe on ’08 Singapore GP

August 30th, 2009

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FIA to launch probe on ’08 Singapore GP

The FIA is to launch an investigation into the events at last year’s Singapore Grand Prix, where Renault’s Fernando Alonso claimed victory on the back of a crash by his team-mate Nelson Piquet. Alonso’s success was sealed by the timing of a safety car in the early stages of the inaugural event – which had been called out when Piquet crashed into the wall shortly after his team-mate stopped for fuel. The timing of Piquet’s crash prompted wild conspiracy theories that the Brazilian had been ordered to deliberately spin to help Renault take its first victory of the year

Tyre strategies – Belgian GP

August 30th, 2009

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The Formula 1 regulations state drivers must use both types of tyre compounds during every race. Below is the order in which each driver used his tyre compounds in the Belgian Grand Prix, as recorded by Bridgestone: Team Tyre choice by stint Ferrari Luca Badoer Soft Medium Kimi Raikkonen Soft Medium Soft McLaren Lewis Hamilton Medium DNF Heikki Kovalainen Soft Medium BMW Sauber Robert Kubica Soft Medium Soft Nick Heidfeld Medium Medium Soft Renault Fernando Alonso Medium Soft DNF Romain Grosjean Medium DNF Toyota Jarno Trulli Medium Medium Soft DNF Timo Glock Medium Soft Soft Scuderia Toro Rosso Jaime Alguersuari Medium DNF Sebastien Buemi Medium Medium Soft Red Bull Racing Mark Webber Medium Medium Medium Soft Sebastian Vettel Medium Medium Soft Williams Nico Rosberg Medium Medium Soft Kazuki Nakajima Medium Soft Force India Adrian Sutil Medium Medium Soft Giancarlo Fisichella Soft Soft Medium Brawn Jenson Button Medium DNF Rubens Barrichello Soft Medium Medium

Belgium Sunday quotes: Bridgestone

August 30th, 2009

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Hiroshi Yasukawa – Director of Bridgestone Motorsport: “Congratulations to Kimi Raikkonen and Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro for taking their first win of the year. Congratulations also to Giancarlo Fisichella and Force India for their fine second place. Today we saw a very exciting race, where Bridgestone’s tyres provided a vital ingredient

Belgium Sunday quotes: Brawn

August 30th, 2009

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Jenson Button – DNF: “I had a really good start and had made up a few places in the first few corners to be ahead of Lewis and Rubens. I had a good run going down the straight to turn five just after Eau Rouge

No action taken on first-lap crashes

August 30th, 2009

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The Belgian Grand Prix stewards have decided that no action was needed following the first-lap accidents that put four drivers out of the race. The stewards were investigating two separate incidents involving Romain Grosjean and Jenson Button, and Lewis Hamilton and Jaimie Alguersuari.

Belgium Sunday quotes: Red Bull

August 30th, 2009

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Sebastian Vettel – 8th: “If you look at the Championship board, today was a good result. Obviously it was not easy to start from the middle of the pack, but the actual start was good

Brawn: Button handling title pressure

August 30th, 2009

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Ross Brawn says Jenson Button is coping well with the pressures associated with being the world championship leader, but added that he must get used to how intense things are likely to get as the season reaches its climax. Button was forced to retire from the Belgian Grand Prix through an accident not of his making, and the Briton has seen his points lead dwindle to just 16 ahead of team-mate Rubens Barrichello with five races to go