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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.

Alonso: 2011 tyres will hurt top teams

February 28th, 2011

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Alonso: 2011 tyres will hurt top teams

Fernando Alonso says he is not in favour of the move towards less durable tyres for 2011, as he fears this will end up penalising faster cars. Pirelli has responded to requests to make tyre management a greater factor in grands prix and deliberately designed its new-for-2011 tyres to wear faster than 2010′s Bridgestones, which were often capable of covering an entire race distance. Drivers’ views on the new tyres’ characteristics have been mixed so far , and Alonso said at a Santander event in Madrid today that the likelihood of extra pitstops would cause ‘uncertainty’ in races and hamper the top teams

Rain delays Rigon’s first Ferrari test

February 28th, 2011

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Rain delays Rigon’s first Ferrari test

Davide Rigon’s first test in a Formula 1 Ferrari was postponed today when the Ferrari Driver Academy curtailed its planned Fiorano running due to extremely cold and wet weather.

New BTCC Ford breaks cover

February 28th, 2011

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New BTCC Ford breaks cover

Ford has unveiled the new Focus ST that Arena Motorsport will campaign in the British Touring Car Championship this year. The ‘Global Touring Car’, which is being presented at the Geneva Motorshow, was developed by Arena with technical support from Ford, and is set to have its first test at Oulton Park later this week

Lotus ‘must be ready to act on KERS’

February 28th, 2011

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Lotus ‘must be ready to act on KERS’

Heikki Kovalainen says Lotus must be ready to add KERS mid-season if the lack of the device is proving too costly. Although Lotus could have used new engine supplier Renault’s energy recovery system, it decided to focus its resources on other areas of the car design rather than dealing with the complex packaging that KERS requires. Kovalainen backs that decision – but believes Lotus should be prepared to change it plans as the year progresses as it suffers against KERS-equipped rivals.

Swiss team in Lamborghini switch

February 28th, 2011

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Swiss team in Lamborghini switch

The Swiss Racing Team will continue in the GT1 World Championship with a pair of Lamborghinis this season, as predicted by AUTOSPORT magazine earlier this month. Othmar Welti’s squad had run Nissans in the inaugural series last year, but had a difficult campaign. Sumo Power has now taken over Nissan’s whole four-car entry for 2011, setting up a new arm under the JR Motorsports banner to run the additional cars

AUTOSPORT launches new polls

February 28th, 2011

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AUTOSPORT launches new polls

AUTOSPORT magazine has launched a new weekly poll on the AUTOSPORT.com forums.

Mercedes buyout ‘won’t change team’

February 28th, 2011

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Mercedes buyout ‘won’t change team’

No changes will be made to the way that Mercedes GP is run after Daimler AG and Aabar Investments took full control of the team, according to the German firm’s motorsport boss Norbert Haug. It was announced this morning that Mercedes and Aabar had acquired the remaining 24.9 per cent of the team, which was owned by the five shareholders involved in the original management buyout of Honda in 2009 – Ross Brawn, Nick Fry, Caroline McGrory, John Marsden and Nigel Kerr.

James joins BTCC with ES Chevy

February 28th, 2011

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Chris James will make his British Touring Car Championship debut this year in a Chevrolet Lacetti run by his own Team ES Racing squad. James, whose Lacetti competed in the Swedish and Scandinavian series last year, said he was “excited, but nervous,” to be moving up to the BTCC, and is keeping a lid on expectations. “I’m not expecting to be mixing it with the likes of [Jason] Plato and [Matt] Neal in my first season,” he said.

Daimler completes team takeover

February 28th, 2011

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Daimler completes team takeover

The Mercedes GP Formula 1 team is now wholly owned by the car manufacturer’s parent company Daimler AG and financial partner Aabar Investments PJS, after the two companies bought out the other shareholders in the Brackley-based operation. In a move that had been widely expected ever since Mercedes-Benz took over the then Brawn GP outfit, Daimler and Aabar have purchased the remaining 24.9 per cent of the outfit that was owned by team management including Ross Brawn and Nick Fry. The new shareholding structure of the team has resulted in Daimler owning 60 per cent, with Aabar owning the remaining 40 per cent.

Gordon ends win drought at Phoenix

February 28th, 2011

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Gordon ends win drought at Phoenix

Jeff Gordon ended a 66-race win-less streak by beating Kyle Busch to victory in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Phoenix. “Pinch me!” said Gordon while jumping off his trademark #24 Chevrolet in Victory Lane after finally getting back to his winning ways, claiming his 83rd career victory one year, 10 months and 22 days after winning for the last time at NASCAR’s top level. The 39-year-old led a race-high 138 laps but following the final restart with 22 laps remaining, he had to chase the leading Toyota of Busch, who passed Tony Stewart for the lead shortly after the green flag waved for the last time.

Renault: Heidfeld already leading team

February 27th, 2011

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Renault: Heidfeld already leading team

Renault team boss Eric Boullier says it was obvious from Nick Heidfeld’s first few laps in the car that he was the man the squad needed to lead its 2011 charge in the absence of the injured Robert Kubica. Heidfeld will fill in alongside Vitaly Petrov at Renault until Kubica recovers from the multiple injuries he suffered in a rally crash three weeks ago

Kyle Busch closes on Phoenix sweep

February 27th, 2011

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Kyle Busch closes on Phoenix sweep

Kyle Busch could make further NASCAR history this weekend by completing a full sweep of victories in its top-level championships at Phoenix in a single weekend, having already dominated in the Trucks and Natiowide Series races at the one-mile oval. On Friday night Busch, driving for his own team KBM, led 107 out of 150 laps on his way to victory in the Truck series event at the wheel of his trademark #18 Toyota Tundra. It was also his 25th victory in the series, out of 87 events contested since 2001

Patrick finishes 17th at Phoenix

February 27th, 2011

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Patrick finishes 17th at Phoenix

Danica Patrick improved on her previous form at Phoenix International Raceway by finishing 17th in Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series event. After an eventful first race at the one-mile Arizona oval last November, Patrick had a smoother run this time around as she continues to build on her stock car experience, while pondering still a possible full-time move from IndyCar. Although Patrick managed to finished the race two positions shy of her top-15 target, she eventually finished three laps down on winner Kyle Busch as the 200 laps saw little incidents and long green-flag periods that did not allow her to recover ground and be in contention further up

Huge crowd for Perez’s Mexico demo

February 26th, 2011

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Huge crowd for Perez’s Mexico demo

A crowd of between 150,000 and 200,000 greeted Sauber’s Mexican rookie Sergio Perez as he carried out a Formula 1 demonstration in his hometown of Guadalajara today. Perez drove last year’s Sauber C29 on a 1.5-kilometre course through the streets of the city.

Virgin continues Manor GP3 prize test

February 26th, 2011

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Virgin continues Manor GP3 prize test

Virgin Racing will again offer a Formula 1 test to the most successful driver from the affiliated Manor Racing GP3 squad’s line-up this year, the teams have confirmed. As part of a talent development system that will also see Virgin Racing back new karting category Formula KGP, the top scoring driver from Manor’s three-car GP3 team will drive for Virgin in the winter young driver F1 sessions. Last year this prize saw Indonesian teenager Rio Haryanto get his first taste of F1 with Virgin in the Abu Dhabi tests, having taken fifth in the GP3 standings for Manor.

Sauber: Young line-up not a handicap

February 26th, 2011

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Sauber: Young line-up not a handicap

The lack of Formula 1 experience in Sauber’s driver line-up will not be detrimental to the team’s development efforts, technical director James Key insists, as he praised Kamui Kobayashi’s efforts to step up into a team leader role already. With Kobayashi having only contested 21 grands prix and his new team-mate Sergio Perez fresh from GP2, Sauber is set to have the least experienced driver pairing in the F1 field this year – subject to who Hispania picks to partner Narain Karthikeyan. Last season Kobayashi was able to rely on having veterans Pedro de la Rosa and Nick Heidfeld in the sister car, but he is now Sauber’s primary source of technical feedback

Q and A: Key on Sauber’s progress

February 26th, 2011

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Q and A: Key on Sauber’s progress

James Key was credited with turning Sauber’s form around when he joined the Swiss outfit as technical director early last year, and began a restructuring process that saw the team go from scoring a mere one point in the first eight grands prix of 2010 to ending the team with 44 and eighth in the championship. This season Sauber has what is likely to be Formula 1′s least experienced driver line-up in Kamui Kobayashi and Sergio Perez, and a C30 chassis that has looked quietly promising in testing. Key gave AUTOSPORT the latest on how things are progressing at Sauber

Montoya: Vegas Indy run unlikely

February 25th, 2011

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Montoya: Vegas Indy run unlikely

Juan Pablo Montoya thinks it would be logistically impossible for him to attempt to win the IndyCar Series’ $5 million bonus at Las Vegas on the same weekend as the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Charlotte in October. The Colombian, who races full-time in Cup for multiple IndyCar title winning team owner Chip Ganassi, has been tipped as one of the favourites to run for the prize that IndyCar is offering for any driver from outside its series who can win the season finale.

Ducati vows to solve GP11′s problems

February 25th, 2011

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Ducati vows to solve GP11′s problems

Ducati team boss Filippo Preziosi is adamant that the squad can resolve the issues that have kept it off the pace so far in winter testing. Valentino Rossi and Nicky Hayden were both outside the top 10 on the final day of this week’s Sepang test, with the Italian expressing concern about how much he was struggling with chassis set-up on the GP11. But Preziosi feels Ducati’s final Sepang results were unrepresentative, pointing out that the test was disrupted by Rossi having to miss one of the three days through illness

Snegirev makes F2 move for 2011

February 25th, 2011

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Snegirev makes F2 move for 2011

Russian driver Max Snegirev will switch from British Formula 3 to Formula 2 for the 2011 season. The 23-year-old struggled to break into the top 10 in F3 last year, but ended the season on a stronger note when he returned to Formula Palmer Audi – the series where he had made his racing debut in 2007 – and won a race, before performing well in F2′s winter tests