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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.

Kobayashi feels ready to lead team

January 31st, 2011

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Kobayashi feels ready to lead team

Kamui Kobayashi is confident he is ready to lead the Sauber team forward in 2011 even though he is only just starting his second full year in Formula 1. The Japanese driver was paired with the experienced Pedro de la Rosa and Nick Heidfeld at Sauber last season, but is now the relative veteran in the team as he has been joined by GP2 runner-up Sergio Perez.

Sauber duo aim to avoid mistakes

January 31st, 2011

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Sauber duo aim to avoid mistakes

Sauber’s young driver pairing Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez say their focus in 2011 will be staying consistent and avoiding mistakes. Having signed GP2 graduate Perez to join Kobayashi – who only has 21 grands prix to his name – Sauber goes into the new season with one of the least experienced driver line-ups on the grid. But Kobayashi feels he has improved a great deal during 2010 and can now deliver his best form more consistently.

Sauber pulls covers off new C30

January 31st, 2011

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Sauber pulls covers off new C30

Sauber has unveiled the new C30 that it hopes will bring it a step forward in pace and deliver the improved reliability that it needs to become a more regular points scorer. The Swiss outfit pulled the covers off its Ferrari-powered car at the Valencia circuit on Monday morning – with the car featuring what is now a standard high nose in F1 and a more slender rear end compared to last year’s challenger.

Schumacher: Simulator issue is minor

January 31st, 2011

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Schumacher: Simulator issue is minor

Michael Schumacher has played down the problems he suffers in using Formula 1 simulators – by questioning the ultimate benefit of the technology. The seven-time champion made the headlines recently when his Mercedes GP team revealed that he could not use simulators a lot because he suffered motion sickness when doing so. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph about the matter, Schumacher said he was not the only one who struggled to feel comfortable.

Trulli expects to score from the start

January 31st, 2011

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Trulli expects to score from the start

Jarno Trulli says he will be in a totally different mindset when he starts the 2011 season with Lotus, as he is confident that the team can aim for points from the outset this year. The veteran Italian endured a tough 2010 campaign, bearing the brunt of Lotus’s reliability teething troubles

Lotus aiming to ‘embarrass’ older teams

January 31st, 2011

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Lotus aiming to ‘embarrass’ older teams

Team Lotus should be aiming to compete with Renault and Williams by the end of 2011, according to the team’s chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne. Following the unveiling of the team’s new Renault-powered T128 in Team Lotus Notes online magazine this morning, Gascoyne was bullish about the car’s chances of progressing into the midfield fight this season. “I think when you look at this car, it looks like a front-running car in every area,” he said.

Lotus to start season without KERS

January 31st, 2011

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Lotus to start season without KERS

Team Lotus has confirmed that it will not use KERS at the start of the 2011 season, though it reckons it could add the energy recovery device at a later stage if necessary. Chief designer Lewis Butler said his team had decided that KERS would have forced too many compromises in other areas of the design. “The decision not to use KERS made the design job slightly easier, because packaging it in the car is always a bit more of a headache,” he said

Gascoyne: T128 the basis for future cars

January 31st, 2011

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Gascoyne: T128 the basis for future cars

Team Lotus’s new Renault-powered T128 challenger has been designed to form the development platform for the squad’s future cars, according to its chief technical officer Mike Gascoyne. While the team’s first car – the T127 – was a conservative design that allowed Lotus to build up the squad’s internal infrastructure through 2010, the new machine has been created from scratch with a far more aggressive approach that Lotus hopes will allow it to develop forward beyond the next season. “With last year’s car and especially the first half of the season it was just an exercise in survival, whereas from the middle of last year it was about building the team up – that’s when we started working on this car,” explained Gascoyne in the company’s Team Lotus Notes online magazine this morning

Lotus says T128 ‘pushes boundaries’

January 31st, 2011

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Lotus says T128 ‘pushes boundaries’

The Lotus design team is confident that the T128 is a massive step forward over its predecessor, the relatively conservative T127 that the squad used to take unofficial ‘top new team’ honours in 2010. Head of R&D and vehicle dynamics Elliot Dason-Barber said the new car’s suspension arrangement was an area where Lotus had made particular gains

Fernandes keen to create new legend

January 31st, 2011

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Fernandes keen to create new legend

Tony Fernandes hopes his Lotus team’s second Formula 1 car will be the start of a new ‘legend’ that does justice to the legacy of Colin Chapman’s original Lotus operation. Fernandes’ squad remains locked in battle with Renault backer Group Lotus over the right to use the Lotus title in Formula 1, and with no quick resolution achieved in court last week, the season will now start with two teams carrying Lotus Renault branding. Team Lotus launched its 2011 T128 F1 design in its Team Lotus Notes online magazine this morning, and in his introduction, Fernandes said while Chapman was still his inspiration, he hoped his team could now start developing a heritage of its own

Team Lotus unveils the new T128

January 31st, 2011

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Team Lotus unveils the new T128

Team Lotus has unveiled its T128 2011 Formula 1 car – a significantly more aggressive design than its 2010 contender, and a machine the squad hopes will propel it firmly into the midfield and points contention.

Elliott Sweeps Up In Georgia

January 31st, 2011

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BRASELTON, Ga. — Chase Elliott used the right tire strategy and made it pay off with a victory in Speedfest 2011 at Lanier National Speedway Sunday, giving him a sweep of the day’s late-model events.

Elliott Edges Ragan At Lanier

January 30th, 2011

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BRASELTON, Ga. — Chase Elliott gave up the lead with 50 laps remaining, but reclaimed the point with two laps remaining and than survived a three-wide battle to win the Pro Late Model event Sunday at Lanier National Speedway

Ganassi Team Goes One-Two At Daytona

January 30th, 2011

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. — It was a long 24 hours, but in the end it was favorites that drove into the sunset in the 49th annual Rolex 24 At Daytona that concluded Sunday afternoon at Daytona Int’l Speedway. Defending Grand Am Rolex Series champions Chip Ganassi Racing with lead driver Scott Pruett captured the twice-around-the-clock classic with an impressive one-two-finish in the event at the 3.56-mile road course, despite a yellow flag with only nine minutes remaining and the green flag waving for a one-lap dash to the checkered flag with less than two minutes in the race.

Ganassi takes Daytona one-two

January 30th, 2011

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Ganassi takes Daytona one-two

Chip Ganassi Racing secured its fourth Daytona 24 Hours victory in six years with a one-two finish in the 2011 edition of the race. Ganassi’s #01 Riley-Ford MKXI/XX driven by Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas, Joey Hand and Graham Rahal crossed the line just two seconds ahead of its sister car. Scott Dixon, who shared the second Ganassi entry with Juan Pablo, Dario Franchitti and Jamie McMurray, was unable to exploit a late-race safety-car period, which turned the race into a one-lap sprint to the flag.

Ferrari Unveils 2011 F-1 Car

January 30th, 2011

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Ferrari Unveils 2011 F-1 Car

Ferrari fans, shown here at the Japanese Grand Prix, hope the Ferrari F150 will be stronger than its Formula One predecessor. VALENCIA, Spain — Ferrari’s new F150 doesn’t look radically different from its 2010 F10 model but it is a very different animal.

Mercedes reveals first look at new W02

January 30th, 2011

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Mercedes reveals first look at new W02

Mercedes has released the first image of its 2011 Formula 1 contender – the MGP W02 – ahead of its maiden public appearance at Valencia on Tuesday. The team is one of several that has eschewed a full-scale launch this year in favour of making a low-key track debut when testing resumes after the winter ban. But Mercedes has issued a head-on computer-generated image of the car as an early hint of its look

Christopher Cops Gambler’s Classic

January 30th, 2011

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ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — There is a certain pride that comes in winning the Gambler’s Classic TQ Midget race at Boardwalk Hall. Just ask Ted Christopher

Bowles Lands Showdown Victory

January 30th, 2011

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Bowles Lands Showdown Victory

Jason Bowles celebrates in victory lane Saturday night at Toyota Speedway at Irwindale. (Getty Images photo) IRWINDALE, Calif.

Action Express leads in Daytona fog

January 30th, 2011

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Action Express leads in Daytona fog

The best of the Action Express Racing Riley-Porsches headed the six cars on the lead lap at two-thirds distance in the 49th running of the Daytona 24 Hours. The #5 Action Express entry, driven by David Donohue, Darren Law, Buddy Rice and Burt Frisselle, held a narrow lead at the head of the queue behind the safety car after 16 hours. The race had been neutralised for nearly three hours because of heavy fog