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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.

Virgin still hindered by hydraulic issue

February 28th, 2010

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Virgin still hindered by hydraulic issue

Virgin Racing is hoping new components will help the team solve the hydraulic leaks that have been hitting the newcomer during pre-season testing. The team has been unable to get as much running as it was hoping due to continued hydraulic problems in the VR-01 car, both at Jerez last week and at Barcelona in the final test of the pre-season. Virgin has managed just 159 laps in total over the four days of the Barcelona test

Schumacher says McLaren very strong

February 28th, 2010

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Schumacher says McLaren very strong

Michael Schumacher says McLaren was ‘very strong’ in the final day of testing at Barcelona, where Lewis Hamilton set the quickest time of the week. But the Mercedes GP driver admits it is virtually impossible to know what the order will be in the first race of the season in Bahrain in two weeks’ time. “They looked very strong today, no doubt,” Schumacher told reporters about McLaren at the end of the day.

Massa: Ferrari has no advantage

February 28th, 2010

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Massa: Ferrari has no advantage

Felipe Massa is happy with Ferrari’s preparation for the 2010 Formula 1 season, but does not believe it heads for Bahrain with any advantage over its rivals. The 28-year-old Brazilian, who spent much of the final Barcelona test day running with a heavy fuel load, finished third quickest today. Ferrari has been strong at all the pre-season tests – topping all three days at Valencia at the start of the month and regularly setting a strong pace on long runs.

McLaren tops combined times again

February 28th, 2010

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McLaren tops combined times again

The McLaren team finished its 2010 preparations in the best possible way, topping the combined testing times at Barcelona. Lewis Hamilton’s quickest time on Sunday meant the British squad has being quickest overall in three of the four pre-season tests ahead of the start of the 2010 season. Hamilton was quickest overall in the first Jerez test, while team-mate Jenson Button was fastest in the second one

Hamilton on top as F1 testing ends

February 28th, 2010

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Hamilton on top as F1 testing ends

Lewis Hamilton rounded off his pre-season preparations with a strong performance on the final day of testing at Barcelona in Spain on Sunday – setting the quickest time and delivering an impressive race distance simulation run.

Stefan GP confident of F1 place

February 28th, 2010

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The Stefan Grand Prix team is still hopeful the FIA will allow the Serbian squad to race in Formula 1 this year. In a press release issued on Sunday, the team said it wanted to reconfirm its ability to race in the 2010 season, despite not yet having an entry. Stefan GP is expected to unveil its first F1 car to the press this week and, as revealed by AUTOSPORT, former world champion Jacques Villeneuve will have a seat fitting at its Cologne factory tomorrow.

Brawn: Mercedes is close to the pace

February 28th, 2010

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Brawn: Mercedes is close to the pace

Ross Brawn believes the new Mercedes will be competitive at the start of the Formula 1 season, but has admitted that the team does not enjoy the advantage it held at the start of 2009, as Brawn GP. Seven-time world champion Michael Schumacher hinted yesterday that the W01 was more competitive than he initially thought

Andretti and Lotus 79 to Bahrain

February 28th, 2010

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Andretti and Lotus 79 to Bahrain

Mario Andretti will be reunited with the Lotus 79 in which he won the 1978 Formula 1 drivers’ title at this year’s Bahrain Grand Prix. The American racing legend, who turned 70 today, is one of a number of former champions who will attend the season opener to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the F1 World Championship. Triple champions Sir Jack Brabham and Sir Jackie Stewart, double title winner Emerson Fittipaldi, and 1992 world champion Nigel Mansell will also appear.

Hamilton shows pace on final morning

February 28th, 2010

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Hamilton shows pace on final morning

Lewis Hamilton delivered the perfect evidence of the step forward McLaren has made at Barcelona as he set the quickest time of the week on an exciting final morning of pre-season testing on Sunday. With the leading teams all spending their morning running through some low-fuel qualifying simulations, it offered a proper glimpse of the current competitive order – and it was Hamilton who eventually emerged on top shortly before the lunch break. Getting his first experience of the raft of updates that McLaren had brought onto its MP4-25 for this week’s test, Hamilton’s best effort of 1m20.472 seconds was just six hundredths of a second quicker than Felipe Massa in the Ferrari.

Barrichello tips Williams to surprise

February 28th, 2010

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Barrichello tips Williams to surprise

Rubens Barrichello is optimistic that his Williams team will prove to be one of the surprises of the year after encouraging times in recent tests. Williams has spent much of the winter doing long runs and proving its reliability, but Nico Hulkenberg was quickest on Friday at Barcelona – and Barrichello thinks that performance has changed perceptions of their team

Bad Stops Can’t Stop Harvick In Vegas

February 28th, 2010

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Bad Stops Can’t Stop Harvick In Vegas

LAS VEGAS — With everyone at Las Vegas Motor Speedway watching rain clouds and NASCAR newcomer Danica Patrick, Kevin Harvick overcame two costly pit stops to win Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series Sam’s Town 300. Harvick, driving the Rheem Chevy, led the most laps (82) in adding this victory to the one he earned here in 2004.

Collision ends Patrick’s race early

February 28th, 2010

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Danica Patrick showed great progress on her third outing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series until contact with a backmarker put her out of the race. After qualifying down in 37th, the JR Motorsports driver had a much better showing pacewise compared to her struggle a week ago at Fontana, but as she dived on the inside of Michael McDowell on lap 84 at turn one, the pair made contact and both cars ended up against the barrier.

Marks Reigns Over Wet ARCA Field

February 27th, 2010

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Marks Reigns Over Wet ARCA Field

JUPITER, Fla. — Neither rain nor 33 other competitors could stop Justin Marks from scoring his first ARCA Racing Series victory Saturday at Palm Beach Int’l Raceway.

Button delighted with final preparations

February 27th, 2010

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Button delighted with final preparations

Jenson Button is confident of McLaren’s potential to fight for victory in Bahrain having declared himself happy with the MP4-25′s aero update on his final day of testing prior to the season opener.

Villeneuve set for Stefan seat fitting

February 27th, 2010

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Villeneuve set for Stefan seat fitting

Jacques Villeneuve is set to have a seat fitting in Stefan GP’s car in Cologne on Monday, AUTOSPORT has learned. Team boss Zoran Stefanovic has said that the 1997 world champion is close to a deal with the Serbian squad, which continues to push for a place in the 2010 Formula 1 field. Stefan has already announced Kazuki Nakajima as its first driver, and is also believed to be poised to sign GP2 race winner Pastor Maldonado as its reserve.

Trulli: Lotus can’t fight existing teams

February 27th, 2010

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Trulli: Lotus can’t fight existing teams

Jarno Trulli is not expecting Lotus to be able to fight with any of the established Formula 1 teams in the first four races of the season. The Italian had his final day of pre-season testing in the T127 at Barcelona today, where his best time was 4.3 seconds down on the pace set by Nico Rosberg. While he was pleased to log over 100 laps after experiencing some reliability problems on Friday, the 35-year-old admitted that he expects to be at the back of the grid when the season gets underway.

Set-up Mercedes’ only issue – Rosberg

February 27th, 2010

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Set-up Mercedes’ only issue – Rosberg

Nico Rosberg reckons Mercedes now just has to fine-tune its set-up and it will be ready to make a competitive start to the 2010 season. The German was fastest in today’s Barcelona test, and ended the day extremely upbeat about his car. “I think in general there’s no absolute weakness with the car at the moment,” said Rosberg

Rosberg heads penultimate test day

February 27th, 2010

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Rosberg heads penultimate test day

Nico Rosberg finished the third day of testing at Barcelona with the fastest time for Mercedes GP. The German’s best lap of 1m20.686s from the morning, set before rain disrupted the action for a couple of hours, was enough to keep him at the top of the timesheets ahead of Sebastien Buemi’s Toro Rosso. Both drivers switched from short runs to long runs in the afternoon, and both suffered technical problems that forced them to stop on track

Whincup still unbeatable in Bahrain

February 27th, 2010

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Jamie Whincup continued his incredible start to 2010 by winning his fourth race in a row in the second V8 Supercar event in Bahrain. The reigning champion recovered from a slow start to reclaim the lead early on, then stayed out of nearest rival Mark Winterbottom’s reach despite stalling in one of his pitstops. Shane van Gisbergen charged through the field from 14th to complete the podium

Kurt Busch Blisters Vegas Track Record

February 27th, 2010

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Kurt Busch Blisters Vegas Track Record

LAS VEGAS — Las Vegas native Kurt Busch blisted the track record at Las Vegas Motor Speedway Friday, collecting his first pole at his hometown track.