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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.

BMW Sauber launches new C29 car

January 31st, 2010

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BMW Sauber launches new C29 car

BMW Sauber was the third Formula 1 team to show off its new challenger for the 2010 season on Sunday, with the unveiling of the C29 at the Valencia circuit.

Virgin set for Silverstone shakedown

January 31st, 2010

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Virgin Racing will become the first of the new Formula 1 entrants to run its car on track when it shakes down the VR-01 in a private event at Silverstone at the end of next week. After launching the Cosworth-powered, Wirth Research-designed car in an online ceremony on Wednesday 3 February, the team will run the car at Silverstone on 4-5 February, prior to joining the second major Formula 1 test of the winter at Jerez the following week. The VR-01 was fired up for the first time in Wirth’s Bicester factory last night

Petrov poised for Renault drive

January 31st, 2010

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Petrov poised for Renault drive

Russia could have its first Formula 1 driver in a matter of hours, as Vitaly Petrov’s arrival at the Valencia track on Sunday heightened speculation he will be announced at Renault later on. Renault has been evaluating several contenders for the slot alongside Robert Kubica in 2010, and the team even considered at one point waiting until after this week’s first F1 pre-season test before making a decision. However, Petrov has emerged as the leading contender over recent days – with sources suggesting he visited the Enstone factory last week to further his talks.

Abu Dhabi wants final slot to be its own

January 31st, 2010

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Abu Dhabi wants final slot to be its own

Abu Dhabi Grand Prix chiefs are to make a push to ensure the final slot on the Formula 1 calendar becomes their own indefinitely. The inaugural event at Yas Marina was given the season finale slot last year and, although it originally lost that prestigious place to Brazil in the provisional 2010 calendar, a reshuffle of the schedule in December saw Abu Dhabi reinstated as the final event. Having welcomed that move, Yas Marina’s CEO Richard Cregan has said his event is now keen to lobby for Abu Dhabi to retain that place for the long term.

Ferrari alters testing programme

January 31st, 2010

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The Ferrari team has altered its testing programme for Valencia after its scheduled first run with the new car had to be cancelled due to poor weather. Felipe Massa was originally scheduled to shake down the F10 last Thursday, but icy conditions that day and again on Friday forced the cancellation of the event. Massa was then expected to drive the car on Monday at Valencia before handing it over to team-mate Fernando Alonso for the second day of the test

Ganassi #01 moves into Daytona lead

January 31st, 2010

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Ganassi #01 moves into Daytona lead

The #02 Ganassi Riley-BMW has had to retire from the Daytona 24 Hours lead with engine failure – but the squad’s #01 challenger has jumped into the lead as the race reached its halfway point.

Ganassi leads Daytona after six hours

January 31st, 2010

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Ganassi leads Daytona after six hours

The No. 02 Chip Ganassi Racing BMW Riley of Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti, Juan Pablo Montoya and Jamie McMurray leads the way at the 24 Hours of Daytona, as the event passes the six-hour mark.

Piquet misses South African event

January 30th, 2010

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Piquet misses South African event

Nelson Piquet’s ARCA debut at Daytona next weekend will now be his first stock car race start, after the Brazilian decided to withdraw from this weekend’s Free State 500 in South Africa.

Raikkonen content despite rally crash

January 30th, 2010

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Raikkonen content despite rally crash

Kimi Raikkonen enjoyed a trouble-free run through the second and final day of the Arctic Rally to reach the finish in his first event in a Citroen WRC car.

Hamilton urged team to sign Button

January 30th, 2010

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Lewis Hamilton has revealed that he strongly pushed for McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh to sign Jenson Button as his team-mate even before the squad started talking to the world champion. Speaking to the British print media during yesterday’s McLaren-Mercedes MP4-25 launch, Hamilton said Button had always been his first choice partner for 2010. “Something you won’t know is that I actually called Martin and said ‘What about Jenson?’, which was before they had negotiations,” said Hamilton.

Plumb, Rum Bum Are Fresh, Fit In Florida

January 30th, 2010

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Plumb, Rum Bum Are Fresh, Fit In Florida

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — Pitting for fresh tires proved to be a winning strategy for Matt Plumb and the Rum Bum Racing team Friday as Plumb made a late-race pass of Charles Espenlaub to claim the season-opening Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Fresh From Florida 200 at Daytona Int’l Speedway. Plumb’s co-driver, Gianluis Bacardi, started 19th and drove the No

Perez also given Abu Dhabi outing

January 29th, 2010

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Perez also given Abu Dhabi outing

The Barwa Addax team has announced that Sergio Perez will join his main series team-mate Guido van der Garde for a one-off GP2 Asia outing at Yas Marina next week. With the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix venue hosting the main GP2 championship finale this year, Addax is bringing in its full season drivers Perez and van der Garde for the Asia rounds at the circuit so they have chance to learn the track in advance

Raikkonen aims for better second day

January 29th, 2010

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Raikkonen aims for better second day

Kimi Raikkonen has made it to the end of the opening day of the Arctic Rally in Finland, but the former Ferrari star has set his sights firmly on improving his pace tomorrow. The Red Bull Citroen Junior Team driver suffered a fraught morning on the Rovaniemi-based event after crashing on the second stage, where he dropped more than half an hour in a ditch. Citroen fixed his C4 WRC at the ensuing service allowing the 2007 Formula 1 champion a clear run through the afternoon’s three stages

Gronholm to enter Norwegian rally

January 29th, 2010

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Double World Rally champion Marcus Gronholm will compete on the Svully Rally in Norway this weekend in an effort to find the rhythm ahead of his WRC return in Sweden next month. Gronholm will join Petter Solberg, Patrik Sandell and Andreas Mikkelsen on the small one-day Norwegian event which runs close to Solberg’s home in Spydeberg.

Virgin to launch car online

January 29th, 2010

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Virgin Racing will unveil its first Formula 1 car in a broadcast on its website next Monday. The VR-01 will be revealed via virginracing.com at 10.00am on 3 February, the team having chosen to hold a ‘virtual’ event rather than a normal launch.

Van der Garde gets early Addax move

January 29th, 2010

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Van der Garde gets early Addax move

Giedo van der Garde will replace Max Chilton at Barwa Addax for the GP2 Asia Series rounds at Abu Dhabi next month. The 24-year-old Dutchman will race for the team in this summer’s main championship and is using the one-off appearance to gain experience of the team and the track, which will host the main series finale in November.

Monster Ford Fiesta Debuts at Rally America Sno*Drift

January 29th, 2010

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Monster Ford Fiesta Debuts at Rally America Sno*Drift

Ken Block and his newly formed Monster World Rally Team will debut their Ford Fiesta Rally America program at this weekend’s Sno*Drift in Atlanta, Mich.  Block and the Monster World Rally Team will campaign seven rally events in North America in 2010 for Ford, including the Summer X Games in August. Block will pilot a 2011 Ford Fiesta based on the race-winning European Rallycross Fiesta prepared by Olsbergs Motorsports Evolution. “I am very excited to finally be in the Fiesta,” said Block. “The Fiesta is the car that beat me last summer at X Games.  Ford has a great platform with the Fiesta, and I can’t wait to see what I can do in the Rally America championship and at the X Games later this year.” Fiesta’s North American racing [...]

Diffuser row could hit 2010 season

January 29th, 2010

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Diffuser row could hit 2010 season

Formula 1 could be heading for more controversy surrounding double diffusers this season, amid predictions from leading teams that some of their rivals have pursued ‘extreme’ solutions in the area of car design.