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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 down to one car at front at Spa

July 31st, 2010

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BMW continues to lead this year’s Spa 24 Hours, but its challenge has been weakened by problems with one of its two M3s. Uwe Alzen briefly took the lead from team-mate Dirk Adolf when another rain shower hit during the sixth hour. But then his #78 machine was hit by an ignition issue that has dropped the car to seventh.

Montoya moves on from Indy loss

July 31st, 2010

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Montoya moves on from Indy loss

Juan Pablo Montoya said he quickly left his frustration behind last weekend after dominating the Brickyard 400 before a strategy decision on his final pitstop put him out of contention for victory. For the second year in a row the Colombian led the most laps at Indianapolis and seemed on the verge of making history as the first driver to win the Indianapolis 500 and the Brickyard 400.

BMW dominating Spa 24 Hours

July 31st, 2010

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BMW is in a dominant position as this year’s Spa 24 Hours approaches one-quarter distance. Two of the leading Porsche teams, BMS and IMSA, changed onto wets during rain showers in the fifth hour

Bianchi suffers back injuries

July 31st, 2010

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Bianchi suffers back injuries

ART GP2 driver and Ferrari Driving Academy member Jules Bianchi has been sidelined for what a Ferrari statement described as ‘quite a long time’ after suffering a back injury in today’s GP2 feature race at the Hungaroring. The Frenchman is recovering at Budapest’s AEK hospital after fracturing his second lumbar vertebra in an accident at the start of the race

Sadler Ends Long NASCAR Drought

July 31st, 2010

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Sadler Ends Long NASCAR Drought

LONG POND, Pa. — Elliott Sadler pumped his fist wildly inside his No

Teams seek front wing clarification

July 31st, 2010

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Teams seek front wing clarification

McLaren and Mercedes GP have asked the FIA for clarification about flexible front wings in Formula 1, amid continued suspicions that Red Bull Racing and Ferrari are doing something clever with their designs to improve car performance.

Leading Ferrari hits trouble at Spa

July 31st, 2010

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The fight for this year’s Spa 24 Hours is currently between BMW and Porsche after the leading Ferrari hit trouble. Gianmaria Bruni had led the opening stages with AF Corse’s GT2 Ferrari, but the team lost the lead to the number 79 BMW M3 at the first pitstops when Toni Vilander took over. The Ferrari then had to stop again with a suspected rear wheel problem

Four drivers given reprimands

July 31st, 2010

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Four Formula 1 drivers have been given reprimands for failing to stay above the minimum lap time set by the FIA ECU during qualifying in Hungary. The rules state that “drivers must stay below the maximum time set by the FIA between the safety car line after the pit exit and Safety Car line before the pit entry.” The rule was introduced earlier this year in order to avoid drivers going too slowly back to the pits. Renault’s Vitaly Petrov, HRT’s Sakon Yamamoto, Virgin’s Timo Glock and team-mate Luca di Grassi have been reprimanded for driving too slowly following the end of the qualifying segments.

Muller wins from pole in Hungary

July 31st, 2010

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Muller wins from pole in Hungary

Nico Muller has converted his pole position into a victory in today’s GP3 race at the Hungaroring. It was a fairly processional affair, with Status’s Robert Wickens trying to spice things up by going from fourth to second at the start, only to be shuffled back into his original position over the following two corners – meaning that all the front runners finished in the positions they started.

Dolby still feeling Zolder injury

July 31st, 2010

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Tottenham Hotspur’s Craig Dolby has admitted that his wrist injury, sustained in a startline crash at Zolder two weeks ago, affected his qualifying performance at Brands Hatch on Saturday. Dolby will start fourth in Sunday’s opening race, despite setting the fastest lap of the weekend during the qualifying phases

Hungary Saturday quotes: Virgin

July 31st, 2010

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Timo Glock – 19th: “We had a very good two days so far and the whole weekend went in the right direction.

Martinez takes Brands pole for Sevilla

July 31st, 2010

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Marcos Martinez scored a shock pole position for Sevilla at Brands Hatch for the seventh round of Superleague Formula. Former Formula Renault 3.5 star Martinez, whose form has been steadily improving of late but languishes near the bottom of the championship, defeated John Martin of Beijing Guoan by just 0.02s in a thrilling final. Martin had run wide at Paddock, and got sideways at Surtees, but his 1:13.876s was still a highly competitive laptime, but Martinez topped him with 1:13.856s

Maldonado wins dramatic feature race

July 31st, 2010

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Maldonado wins dramatic feature race

Pastor Maldonado has triumphed in a dramatic GP2 Series feature race at the Hungaroring to take his fifth feature race victory in succession, extending his record.

Bruni takes early Spa lead for Ferrari

July 31st, 2010

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Gianmaria Bruni has given AF Corse an early lead in this year’s Spa 24 Hours. At the start of the second hour Bruni, in the AF Corse Ferrari, leads by seven seconds from the #79 BMW as the first scheduled pitstops approach. The poleman took the lead from the start and pulled clear from the battle between the works BMW M3s in the GT National class and the GT3 Phoenix Audi R8s

Set-up gamble backfires for Schumacher

July 31st, 2010

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Set-up gamble backfires for Schumacher

Michael Schumacher is hopeful a set-up gamble helps him enjoy a stronger race following a disappointing qualifying on Saturday. “Obviously qualifying was not ideal for us today,” said Schumacher, who will start the race from 14th position, eight places behind team-mate Nico Rosberg.

Hungary Saturday quotes: Ferrari

July 31st, 2010

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Fernando Alonso – 3rd: “I am pleased with my qualifying lap and with the performance of our car, as I don’t think I could have done better today. The Red Bulls proved to be very strong and the gap to them is certainly a surprise. Having said that, we have to remain focussed on our work and try to do the maximum, aiming at getting on the podium.

Barrichello rues qualifying traffic

July 31st, 2010

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Barrichello rues qualifying traffic

Rubens Barrichello blamed heavy traffic for his inability to make it into the final part of Hungarian Grand Prix qualifying. The Williams driver ended up 12th on the grid after both his team-mate Nico Hulkenberg and Sauber’s Pedro de la Rosa relegated him from the top 10 late on.

Kobayashi handed five-place penalty

July 31st, 2010

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Kobayashi handed five-place penalty

Kamui Kobayashi was handed a five-place grid penalty ahead of the Hungarian Grand Prix for missing a call to go into the FIA garage during qualifying. The Sauber driver was called in by the FIA stewards to be weighed after the end of Q2, but the Japanese did not see the red light in the pitlane and continued to drive towards his team’s garage. As a consequence, Kobayashi was given a penalty and will have to start the race from 23rd position.