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September 2010

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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.

Dillon Rolls ARCA Foes

September 30th, 2010

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Dillon Rolls ARCA Foes

Richard Childress (left) and his grandson Ty Dillon in victory lane at Kansas Speedway. (ARCA photo)

Drivers worried about France tyres

September 30th, 2010

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Drivers worried about France tyres

There is concern among the drivers in the World Rally Championship that they could run out of soft-compound Pirelli tyres during this week’s Rally of France. With further rain expected in the Alsace area overnight, combined with temperatures around 14 degrees, the hard-compound rubber is said not to be a viable option for the asphalt stages.

Hanninen certain to clinch IRC title

September 30th, 2010

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Hanninen certain to clinch IRC title

Juho Hanninen has effectively clinched the 2010 Intercontinental Rally Challenge title after Skoda decided not to enter his team-mate and last remaining championship rival Jan Kopecky for the next round in Scotland. Under the IRC scoring system, drivers only count their best seven results from the 12-round season, and Kopecky had to win both Scotland and Cyprus to have any hope of beating Hanninen. With this considered unlikely given form so far this year, Skoda has opted to guarantee Hanninen the crown by only entering the Finn for the Scottish event on 15-17 October

Team USA Winners Selected

September 30th, 2010

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Team USA Winners Selected

Felix Serralles (left) and Spencer Pigot. (Eric McCombs photo).

Ogier says he will take more risks

September 30th, 2010

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Ogier says he will take more risks

Sebastien Ogier has vowed to take more risks on this week’s Rally of France, which gets underway with a ceremonial start in Strasbourg this evening. The 26-year-old Frenchman scored his first podium finish on an asphalt round of the World Rally Championship on last month’s Rally Germany, but feels he has more speed to come

Branson confirms Virgin backing for ’11

September 30th, 2010

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Branson confirms Virgin backing for ’11

Richard Branson has confirmed that he will continue to support the Virgin Racing team in 2011 – and is ready to accept less branding on the car so the outfit can give more space to other sponsors. The entrepreneur began his tie-up with the outfit from the start of this season, having entered Formula 1 as a sponsor of the title-winning Brawn GP team in 2009

ASCS Stars Heading To Riverside

September 30th, 2010

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ASCS Stars Heading To Riverside

Brady Bacon (99) and Jack Dover battle for position last weekend at Missouri's Lucas Oil Speedway. (Ken Simon Photo) TULSA, Okla. — Fifty laps — it’s a distance that the Lucas Oil ASCS presented by K&N Filters National series will traverse just once during the 2010 season That time has come as the stars of the series will take to the fabled quarter-mile Riverside Int’l Speedway gumbo clay oval in West Memphis, Ark., for the second annual Rock ‘N Roll 50 this Friday and Saturday night, with both nights filmed for later broadcast on Versus and MavTV.

Brawn rules out FOTA chairmanship

September 30th, 2010

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Brawn rules out FOTA chairmanship

Ross Brawn has ruled himself out of the running to become new chairman of the Formula One Teams’ Association (FOTA) later this year – despite being viewed by many as favourite to take over the role. FOTA’s system is supposed to see a new chairman from its members elected each year, with McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh currently in charge after taking over from Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo in December. AUTOSPORT understands, however, that the candidates for chairman can only be from those teams that have previously won a championship title.

Richards Prepares For WoO LMS Showdown

September 30th, 2010

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Richards Prepares For WoO LMS Showdown

Josh Richards picked up a victory at Virginia's Winchester Speedway last weekend. (Clifford Dove/WRT Speedwerx Photo) CONCORD, N.C

Power, Franchitti Set For Homestead Finale

September 30th, 2010

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Power, Franchitti Set For Homestead Finale

Dario Franchitti (left) and Will Power will each attempt to capture the IZOD IndyCar Series title this weekend at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Q and A with Mini’s Ian Robertson

September 30th, 2010

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Q and A with Mini’s Ian Robertson

Conducted and provided by Mini’s press office. Q. Mini is back in motorsport

Q and A: Lapworth on Mini’s programme

September 30th, 2010

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Q and A: Lapworth on Mini’s programme

Mini officially unveiled its WRC car at the Paris Motor Show on Thursday, also confirming Kris Meek as its lead driver. AUTOSPORT heard from Prodrive’s technical director David Lapworth about Mini’s plans for next year. Q.

LONDON: RCR, Bowyer Deserve Better

September 30th, 2010

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One part of the good old days that is needed today is for car owners to start showing some testosterone. Often, disputes between participants and track operators led to bad things, like the Tri-State boycott (s) here in the northeast on 1971.

Venables Joins Lucas’s Top Fuel Team

September 30th, 2010

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Multi-car team owner and driver Morgan Lucas has hired veteran crew chief Dickie Venables to tune his Geico Powersports/Lucas Oil Top Fuel dragster.

Valsecchi to make Auto GP debut

September 30th, 2010

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Valsecchi to make Auto GP debut

Davide Valsecchi will make his Auto GP debut in the final round of the championship at Monza next week. The current GP2 Asia champion will join the grid in a car fielded by the RP Motorsport team. Meanwhile, compatriot Federico Leo will return to the championship with the Trident Racing car, having raced for the team at Imola, the second round of the series

Peugeot Fast In First Petit Test

September 30th, 2010

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Franck Montagny and Peugeot fired the first shots of Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda 2 with the fastest lap in Wednesday’s official test session at Road Atlanta.

Bowyer Appeal Denied

September 30th, 2010

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NASCAR’s National Stock Car Racing Appeals Panel heard the appeal of Richard Childress Racing Wednesday regarding the four penalties levied against the team following its Sept. 19 victory at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and upheld all of the sanctions.

Labonte, JTG Get Head Start On 2011

September 30th, 2010

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Labonte, JTG Get Head Start On 2011

Bobby Labonte got his first chance to test with JTG Daugherty Racing earlier this week.