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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.

Hamlin Postpones Surgery

March 30th, 2010

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MARTINSVILLE, Va. — Denny Hamlin said enough is enough with his injured left knee. He was to have undergone surgery Monday morning to repair a torn ACL in his left knee, but the rainout altered his plans.

Red Bull would welcome suspension ruling

March 30th, 2010

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Red Bull would welcome suspension ruling

Red Bull Racing would welcome a clarification from the FIA about the use of suspension in Formula 1, following allegations that it is running a mechanical form of ‘active ride’ this year. Rival outfits suspect that Red Bull Racing is doing something clever with its suspension – perhaps through the use of gas-filled dampers – that helps give the team a lower ride-height in qualifying for an extra boost of speed. One theory is that the gas pressure helps push the car down for its optimum ride-height with low fuel for qualifying, before releasing the pressure prior to the race so the car lifts back up – allowing its starting weight of fuel to be added without the car bottoming out

Brembo denies Vettel’s brake failure

March 30th, 2010

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Brembo denies Vettel’s brake failure

Brake manufacturer Brembo has denied reports that Sebastian Vettel’s retirement from the Australian Grand Prix was caused by a brake failure. The Red Bull Racing driver retired from the Melbourne event while leading comfortably, after he suffered a mechanical problem on his front left wheel. Red Bull’s brake supplier Brembo issued a statement on Tuesday clarifying that the failure had nothing to do with the brakes.

Bourdais joins Olympique for 2010

March 30th, 2010

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Bourdais joins Olympique for 2010

Frenchman Sebastien Bourdais will return to the Superleague Formula this year with Olympique Lyonnais, it was announced on Tuesday. The four-time Champ Car champion made his debut in the series midway through 2009 with Sevilla and went on to win his first race on his first outing at Estoril. He then won again at Monza and also finished on the podium at Jarama

Haug: Schumacher as good as always

March 30th, 2010

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Haug: Schumacher as good as always

Mercedes GP is adamant that Michael Schumacher continues to be as good as he always was – despite a less than stellar return to Formula 1 so far. Schumacher has been outqualified and outraced by team-mate Nico Rosberg in the first two races of the year – and spent much of last weekend’s Australian Grand Prix fighting near the back of the field with youngster Jaime Alguersuari. But despite on paper having not delivered the kind of results that some expected, Mercedes-Benz motorsport boss Norbert Haug is sure that Schumacher retains the same magic that drove him to seven world titles

Coulthard tells Hamilton to hire manager

March 30th, 2010

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Coulthard tells Hamilton to hire manager

David Coulthard has told Lewis Hamilton to hire a manager as soon as possible following his off-track incident in Australia last weekend. The McLaren driver was involved in a road car incident after doing a burnout in a Mercedes that was later impounded by Australian police. Coulthard reckons the incident was blown out of proportion.

Renault to push harder in races now

March 30th, 2010

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Renault to push harder in races now

Renault boss Eric Boullier thinks that his team can set its sights on pushing even harder in the races now – after Robert Kubica’s breakthrough podium finish in the Australian Grand Prix. Kubica delivered a brilliant performance at Albert Park to hold off race-long pressure from Lewis Hamilton and Felipe Massa and grab his first podium for his new team. And with the outfit now understanding exactly how quick its car is, and getting a better grip on tyre strategies, Boullier thinks Renault can lift its performance up a gear in future races.

Malaysian Grand Prix preview quotes: McLaren

March 30th, 2010

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Jenson Button: “It was a tremendous achievement to score our first win of the season in Melbourne last week, and it’s given every single member of the team even greater enthusiasm for this weekend. Even so, I think we travel to Sepang mindful that the characteristics of the circuit probably won’t suit our car as well as it will suit some of the others – but I’m confident that, once again, we’ll be fighting at or near the front. “We’re only two races in, but I think the development race will already be starting to have an influence on performance.

Button keeps expectations in check

March 30th, 2010

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Button keeps expectations in check

Jenson Button has warned not to expect McLaren to be as strong as in Australia this weekend, as he reckons the Sepang circuit will not suit his car as well. The world champion is confident, however, that his team will be running near the front. “It was a tremendous achievement to score our first win of the season in Melbourne last week, and it’s given every single member of the team even greater enthusiasm for this weekend,” said Button in a team preview ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix.

Kolles confident of two-second gain

March 30th, 2010

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Kolles confident of two-second gain

HRT team boss Colin Kolles believes his team has at least two seconds in store and is confident it will catch up with the field soon. In Australia, Brazilian Bruno Senna qualified around 1.5 seconds off the pace of Lotus’s Heikki Kovalainen, who was the quickest of the drivers in new teams

Malaysian Grand Prix preview quotes: Bridgestone

March 30th, 2010

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Hiroshi Yasukawa – Director of Bridgestone Motorsport: “Last year we had a very exciting Malaysian Grand Prix because of the weather, and this was a good event for us to showcase our full weather range of Bridgestone Potenza tyres.

Malaysian Grand Prix preview quotes: HRT

March 30th, 2010

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Bruno Senna: “I’m looking forward to the Malaysian Grand Prix. I am very excited to go to Malaysia as I have driven there in GP2 so I know the track well

HRT targets double finish in Malaysia

March 30th, 2010

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HRT targets double finish in Malaysia

Hispania Racing boss Colin Kolles says the team is aiming to finish the Malaysian Grand Prix with both cars before it begins to focus on improving its performance. Indian Karun Chandhok completed the team’s first race in Australia last weekend, despite not having completed any pre-season testing. Team-mate Bruno Senna, however, retired with a mechanical problem and now Kolles wants both drivers to be able to reach the chequered flag in Sepang.

Williams sure Hulkenberg will deliver

March 30th, 2010

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Williams sure Hulkenberg will deliver

Williams’s technical director Sam Micheal is convinced Nico Hulkenberg will deliver despite a difficult start to Formula 1 racing in the first two events of the season. The German rookie, the current GP2 champion, finished in 14th position in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix after spinning on the opening lap. In Australia he was taken out of the race after Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi crashed into him also on the first lap

Malaysian Grand Prix preview quotes: Mercedes

March 30th, 2010

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Nico Rosberg: “Malaysia is one of my favourite circuits on the Formula One calendar. It’s fast and challenging with a nice layout and a real variation of corners which makes Sepang an exciting track to drive. I have generally qualified well there, starting from fourth on the grid last year and third in 2006

Hamlin snatches Martinsville win

March 29th, 2010

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Hamlin snatches Martinsville win

Denny Hamlin snatched victory in a dramatic finish at Martinsville Speedway, claiming his third career win at the track before heading to the surgery room this week. Hamlin led a race-high 171 laps but he still had to work hard for victory in the closing laps of the rain-daleyed event, which was attended by an estimated crowd of 25,000 on Monday afternoon. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver looked set to take an easy win when his race-long rival Jeff Burton had to give up the fight due to a deflating right-front tyre a few laps from the chequered flag

Schumacher remains positive

March 29th, 2010

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Schumacher remains positive

Michael Schumacher insists the Australian Grand Prix marked a step forward in his Formula 1 comeback, even though he only finished 10th. The seven times champion qualified seventh in Melbourne but fell to the back at the start when his front wing was broken as contact between Jenson Button and Fernando Alonso sent the Ferrari spinning into the Mercedes

Hamilton ‘understands’ team’s strategy

March 29th, 2010

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Hamilton ‘understands’ team’s strategy

Lewis Hamilton says he now understands why McLaren chose to bring him in for a mid-race tyre change in the Australian Grand Prix – a strategy that left him angry at the end of the race. The former champion had been pushing Renault’s Robert Kubica for second when the team decided he should follow the example of fellow frontrunners Mark Webber and Nico Rosberg and take on fresh tyres rather than making the rubber he had used since the track dried last until the flag. That dropped Hamilton to fifth, as leaders Jenson Button, Kubica, Felipe Massa and Fernando Alonso all decided not to pit