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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.

Loeb: Ogier now my biggest rival

May 30th, 2010

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Loeb: Ogier now my biggest rival

Sebastien Loeb reckons Rally of Portugal winner Sebastien Ogier has become his toughest rival in the World Rally Championship.

Franchitti Claims Second Indy 500

May 30th, 2010

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Franchitti Claims Second Indy 500

INDIANAPOLIS — Dario Franchitti was finally first after 500 miles in the Indianapolis 500, even though he was already an Indy 500 champion in 2007. Franchitti’s victory three years ago came in a rain-shortened race that was flagged after 166 laps. There was no chance of rain Sunday at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and Franchitti drove a flawless race, dominating by leading most of the race before having to conserve fuel to make it to the finish.

Franchitti dominates the Indy 500

May 30th, 2010

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Franchitti dominates the Indy 500

Ganassi’s Dario Franchitti claimed his second Indianapolis 500 victory with a commanding drive for Ganassi in the 2010 edition of the IndyCar Series’ premier race. Dan Wheldon finished in second place, as a late fuel stop meant Tony Kanaan had to relinquish the runner-up spot with just four laps to go after an epic drive from the back of the grid. Alex Lloyd took a remarkable third place for Dale Coyne Racing – completing an all-British top three, although his position could come into question with Marco Andretti alleging he was passed under yellow

Franchitti leads Indy at halfway

May 30th, 2010

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Ganassi’s Dario Franchitti is fending off Penske duo Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe for the race lead at the half-distance point in the 2010 Indianapolis 500. The Scot moved up from third to first before the opening lap was complete, and has been the main protagonist ever since – leading 93 of the first 100 laps.

Red Bulls Give Grand Prix Of Turkey To Hamilton

May 30th, 2010

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Red Bulls Give Grand Prix Of Turkey To Hamilton

ISTANBUL — The Reds broke the cardinal rule: Don’t hit each other. The result: They lost the race to the silvers cars.

Red Bull denies favouring Vettel

May 30th, 2010

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Red Bull denies favouring Vettel

Red Bull’s motorsport advisor Helmut Marko insists that both its Formula 1 team’s drivers are treated exactly the same – even though he has publicly blamed Mark Webber for trying to defend his position during his Turkish Grand Prix crash. Webber and team-mate Sebastian Vettel collided in their fight for the lead at Istanbul – throwing away the team’s chances of taking the win, and handing victory to main title rivals McLaren

Webber in fuel-save mode before crash

May 30th, 2010

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Webber in fuel-save mode before crash

Mark Webber had to turn his engine down on the lap that Sebastian Vettel tried to pull a move on him for the lead, Red Bull Racing has confirmed, but the team insists that was still no excuse for its drivers colliding. Mystery surrounded the exact circumstances of what happened on lap 40, when Vettel closed in on Webber and drafted past him on the back straight before they crashed into each other. Suspicions that all was not straightforward surfaced immediately after the race when Webber told journalists in the post-race press conference that they should ‘dig more’ to find out what had really happened.

Turkish Grand Prix Sunday quotes: McLaren

May 30th, 2010

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Lewis Hamilton – 1st: “It was quite an eventful race. I didn’t get a great start, it looked like I had a better reaction than Mark [Webber], but the car just didn’t seem to be going anywhere.

Turkish Grand Prix Sunday quotes: Ferrari

May 30th, 2010

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Felipe Massa – 7th: “It was a very boring race for me, from start to finish, but it was also very difficult. I was always stuck behind Kubica and the two Mercedes, who were running at a similar pace to me.

Turkish Grand Prix Sunday quotes: Red Bull

May 30th, 2010

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Mark Webber – 3rd: “Sebastian had a bit of a top speed advantage, he went down the inside and we were side by side. I was surprised when he came right suddenly, as I was holding my racing line.

Turkish Grand Prix Sunday quotes: Virgin

May 30th, 2010

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Timo Glock – 18th: “It was a tough race for the team today so it was great for us to get both cars to the chequered flag and take some reward for all the hard work that has gone into this weekend. The start was disappointing for me because we stalled on the grid, which enabled Senna to pass me.

Wilson hails oval breakthrough

May 30th, 2010

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Wilson hails oval breakthrough

Justin Wilson feels he has made a major breakthrough in his comfort with oval racing as he prepares for his third Indianapolis 500 this afternoon. The Briton’s move to the Dreyer & Reinbold team for 2010 has given him the most competitive oval package he has had so far in his career, but he said the major gains had come through his own increasing experience.

Turkish Grand Prix Sunday quotes: HRT

May 30th, 2010

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Karun Chandhok – DNF: “It is a bit frustrating to be classified not higher than 20th. In the first stint I was struggling with the pace compared to Bruno’s and the Virgins’. But as we changed to the options tyres the pace came back.

Gordon Records Ninth Little 500 Victory

May 30th, 2010

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Gordon Records Ninth Little 500 Victory

ANDERSON, Ind. — Eric Gordon won his record ninth Pay Less Little 500 sprint-car race Saturday night at Anderson Speedway.

Ray Cook Is Show-Me State King

May 30th, 2010

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Ray Cook Is Show-Me State King

WHEATLAND, Mo. — Ray Cook etched his name in the DART Show Me 100 history book for the second time, claiming the 18th edition of the event, which was held for the first time at Lucas Oil Speedway. A capacity crowd Jimmy Owens and Earl Pearson, Jr.

Turkish Grand Prix Sunday quotes: Bridgestone

May 30th, 2010

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Hiroshi Yasukawa – Director of Bridgestone Motorsport: “This was a very exciting race so congratulations to Vodafone McLaren Mercedes and Red Bull for such good performance. The Istanbul Park circuit enables fantastic racing, with difficult corners and interesting gradient. We have been able to prove the strong performance of our tyres in front of a world audience and I think anyone who watched the race will agree about the excitement we saw.

Shaver Pockets WoO LMS Cash In West Virginia

May 30th, 2010

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Shaver Pockets WoO LMS Cash In West Virginia

MINERAL WELLS, W.Va. — In front of his hometown crowd, Steve Shaver came out on top of a four-car battle to win the 30-lap World of Outlaws Late Model Series event at West Virginia Motor Speedway Saturday night.