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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.

Schumacher happy with reduced testing

February 27th, 2010

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Schumacher happy with reduced testing

The significant reductions Formula 1 teams have self-imposed on testing have made little difference to the development of the cars, and were a principal factor in convincing Michael Schumacher to return to the sport, according to the seven-time world champion. The teams introduced a ban on in-season testing at the beginning of last year and agreed to a combined four-test pre-season schedule in 2010 in order to further reduce costs.

Schumacher revises Mercedes prediction

February 27th, 2010

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Schumacher revises Mercedes prediction

Michael Schumacher has changed his stance on Mercedes GP’s competitiveness heading into the beginning of the 2010 season. Schumacher said on Friday that he did not expect the team to be in a position to win races early in the year, but changed his mind on Saturday after analysing the data in more detail

Jordan tests TOCA engine

February 27th, 2010

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Andrew Jordan has given the British Touring Car Championship’s new TOCA-branded turbo engine its maiden runs. Jordan, who will use the powerplant in his Eurotech Racing-run Vauxhall Vectra this season, drove the car in damp conditions at both Snetterton and Rockingham this week.

SUNRED to field sixth Leon for Barth

February 27th, 2010

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SUNRED Engineering will run a sixth entry in this year’s World Touring Car Championship for series newcomer Fredy Barth. The 31-year-old Swiss has raced in the German-based SEAT championship since 2004 and finished third in last year’s SEAT Eurocup.

WTCC adopts F1 points system

February 27th, 2010

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The World Touring Car Championship will adopt the same points system as Formula 1 and the World Rally Championship for the 2010 season.

Rosberg fastest as rain hits test

February 27th, 2010

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Rosberg fastest as rain hits test

Nico Rosberg topped the timesheets on Saturday morning as rain disrupted the penultimate day of this week’s Formula 1 test at Barcelona in Spain. Although the day started off dry, and Rosberg was able to complete a series of low fuel short runs to set a best time of 1m20.686s on his final effort, everyone’s programme at Barcelona was hit as rain soaked the track shortly before 11am. Rosberg’s short runs offered the first glimpse of the ultimate pace of his Mercedes GP car, with the team having so far limited its running to longer stints during this week’s preparations

Virgin promises major step for Bahrain

February 27th, 2010

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Virgin promises major step for Bahrain

Virgin Racing’s technical director Nick Wirth has promised a major upgrade on the VR-01 for the Bahrain Grand Prix – and says he is utterly confident that his squad will start as the best of the new teams. So far in testing Virgin has tended to be faster than fellow newcomer Lotus, while Campos has yet to run its car at all and US F1 is still shrouded in uncertainty

Sutil: New rules will suit my style

February 27th, 2010

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Sutil: New rules will suit my style

Adrian Sutil believes his flexibility when adapting to different track conditions could give him a competitive advantage with the changes to Formula 1′s regulations for 2010. With drivers now forced to start races carrying 150kg of fuel on board, following the ban on refuelling, cars’ handling characteristics are expected to alter significantly as the weight reduces during grands prix.

Pic scores maiden GP2 victory

February 27th, 2010

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Charles Pic earned his first GP2 Asia win by breaking away from the early chaos in the Bahrain sprint race. The Frenchman overtook initial leader Adrian Zaugg and then escaped from his pursuers while they spent the next few laps tripping over each other.

Kubica: Renault not podium threat yet

February 27th, 2010

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Kubica: Renault not podium threat yet

Robert Kubica is not expecting Renault to be in podium contention in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix. But the Pole is optimistic that upgrades set to arrive for the final test day tomorrow will bring his team closer to the frontrunners. “We will try to be in the position to fight for the top, but I think it could be difficult to achieve, especially at the beginning of the year,” Kubica said.

Whincup takes pole for race two

February 27th, 2010

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Jamie Whincup continued his strong start to the season by taking pole position for the second race of the Desert 400 at the Bahrain International Circuit.

Stefan critical of F1 entry process

February 27th, 2010

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Stefan Grand Prix believes that Formula 1 chiefs will have some explaining to do it if any of the new teams fail to compete this year and the Serbian outfit is not then given an entry.

Q and A with Richard Branson

February 27th, 2010

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Q and A with Richard Branson

Virgin boss Richard Branson dropped in at the Catalunya test this morning to see his new Formula 1 team in action for the first time. AUTOSPORT was there to hear his thoughts on progress so far – and on Ferrari’s criticism of F1′s newcomers

Branson: Ferrari criticism is ‘sad’

February 27th, 2010

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Branson: Ferrari criticism is ‘sad’

Richard Branson has labelled Ferrari’s attack on Formula 1′s new teams as ‘sad’, and thinks the Italian outfit should be welcoming fresh competition rather than be unhappy about it. A column on Ferrari’s website this week attacked the push by former FIA president Max Mosley to bring new teams into the sport because of the struggles that US F1 and Campos Meta had faced

Kurt Busch on record Vegas pole

February 27th, 2010

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Kurt Busch claimed pole position for his home race as he set a new track record in Sprint Cup series qualifying at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

Biffle To Own Race Track

February 26th, 2010

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Biffle To Own Race Track

LAS VEGAS — Oregon-born NASCAR driver Greg Biffle has become the latest NASCAR driver to be a track owner. Biffle has acquired an interest in Sunset Speedway, a three-eighths-mile dirt track in Banks, Ore., partnering with local resident Jerry Schram. “I’m gonna be part-owner in Sunset Speedway in Banks, Oregon joining the likes of Tony Stewart and some of these other guys, and we’ve also started a late model dirt series in the northwest call the DAA Spec Motor Series presented by Sherwin Williams, which will run 22 events throughout the season,” Biffle said

Aleshin joins Carlin for FR3.5 return

February 26th, 2010

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Aleshin joins Carlin for FR3.5 return

Former Red Bull Junior driver Mikhail Aleshin will return to Formula Renault 3.5 for a fourth season in the category with Carlin this year. The 22-year-old Russian took a hiatus from the series last year, competing in the Formula 2 championship where he claimed third in the standings. Aleshin is the most experienced driver to commit to this season’s FR3.5 championship, having been a front-runner in World Series by Renault between 2006 and 2008.

Fisichella content with first GT test

February 26th, 2010

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Giancarlo Fisichella was pleased with his first test in the Ferrari GT2 car he will race in this year’s Le Mans Series, but feels he needs more time to get confident in the sportscar.

Car much stronger this year – Hamilton

February 26th, 2010

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Car much stronger this year – Hamilton

Lewis Hamilton is confident that McLaren is in a much better position than it was at the start of last season after day two of the final pre-season test at Barcelona. The 25-year-old Briton was only eighth fastest of the 11 runners today, but believes the MP4-25 is a big improvement over the 2009 car. “We’re in a much stronger position than we were last year,” he said.

Hamilton: Button a boost for McLaren

February 26th, 2010

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Hamilton: Button a boost for McLaren

Lewis Hamilton believes his new team-mate Jenson Button has given McLaren a boost, and says he is working well with his countryman. The 25-year-old was speaking after completing the second day of the Barcelona test this afternoon. His time of 1m22.152s was eighth fastest in today’s results, compared to Button’s 1m23.452s effort yesterday, which was enough to put him fifth