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Editor and ChiefDavid 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.
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iRacing.com Series WriterChris 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.
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Contributing Writer19 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.
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iRacing.com Series WriterJason 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.
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Technical contributorRay 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.
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Contributing WriterPatrick 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.
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Contributing WriterNorth 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!
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Christensen leads GP3 test
March 31st, 2011
Mucke driver Michael Christensen was quickest on the final day of this week’s three-day GP3 test at Silverstone today. The Dane hit the front during the windy afternoon session with a 1m51.799s lap, beating Status’ Alexander Sims by just under a tenth of a second. Nico Muller (Jenzer), Mitch Evans (MW Arden) and Rio Haryanto (Manor) completed the top five.
Earthquake shouldn’t hamper Yamaha
March 31st, 2011
Yamaha is confident that its MotoGP programme should not be affected by the Japanese earthquake.
Spies certain Yamaha can catch up
March 31st, 2011
Ben Spies is confident that Yamaha can regain the ground it has lost to Honda over the winter, despite acknowledging that the Hondas are currently the class of the field. Honda was quickest in every pre-season test and won the opening round in Qatar with Casey Stoner – although Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo was second
Ducati’s winter gains too small – Rossi
March 31st, 2011
Valentino Rossi reckons his current Ducati is little improvement over the 2010 bike – and thinks his lack of winter fitness is a major reason why the team is behind. The former champion has been suffering with a shoulder problem since a motocross crash almost a year ago, and had surgery during the off-season
Simoncelli says size causing fuel issue
March 31st, 2011
Marco Simoncelli has played down the chances of him running out of fuel before the end of grands prix, but admitted he has to run a leaner engine setting in order to make it to the flag. It emerged in Qatar that the tall Italian was having fuel consumption issues, and Simoncelli acknowledged that this was blunting his Gresini Honda’s straightline performance. “At the end of the race I arrived with fuel in the tank, but the problem is that to arrive with fuel in the tank I have to go with a more lean fuel set-up, so the bike can push less,” he said.
Lorenzo: ‘No limit’ to expectations
March 31st, 2011
Jorge Lorenzo says he goes into his home event at Jerez this weekend totally open-minded about his prospects after his surprise second place at Losail. The MotoGP world champion had been pessimistic about his chances going into the Qatar season-opener having struggled in testing, but was ecstatic to split the hitherto dominant Hondas and take second behind Casey Stoner. Now he believes anything could happen at Jerez, where he won last year
Stoner: Jerez will reveal true picture
March 31st, 2011
MotoGP points leader Casey Stoner believes this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez will give a true indication of Honda’s strength. The 2007 world champion dominated much of winter testing and took victory in the opener in Qatar a fortnight ago. But as Stoner had won three times at Losail in the past but has only taken one podium finish at Jerez, he said he was keeping calm about Honda’s form until he saw how competitive he was in Spain
Cole graduates to Formula 2
March 31st, 2011
James Cole will compete in the Formula 2 series this season following his sterling test performances at Silverstone and the newly-developed Snetterton circuit. Cole impressed series organisers by running consistently in the top ten during a two-day test at Snetterton yesterday, and even took the Williams JPH1B F2 car to the top of the timesheets in one session
Date change for Rally of Scotland
March 31st, 2011
The penultimate round of the Intercontinental Rally Championship will now take place one week earlier than previously scheduled, it was confirmed today. The RACMSA Rally of Scotland was due to take place from 14-16 October but will now move one week forward to 7-9 October after a further update to the calendar by series officials. The move follows repeated requests from parties in Scotland associated with the running of the event, who cited an insufficient number of volunteer personnel being available for the 14-16 October weekend as a major contributory factor.
Ricciardo to miss opening FR3.5 race
March 31st, 2011
Red Bull and Toro Rosso Formula 1 reserve driver Daniel Ricciardo has announced that he will miss the opening Formula Renault 3.5 round at Motorland Aragon on April 16th-17th. The Australian had his first on-track grand prix experience at Melbourne last weekend, when he drove Jaime Alguersuari’s Toro Rosso during Friday practice, and will again perform Formula 1 reserve driver duties at the Chinese Grand Prix. The Spanish World Series event’s date clash with Shanghai will delay Ricciardo’s race debut with his new Formula Renault 3.5 team ISR
Zhuhai to host ILMC season finale
March 31st, 2011
The ACO has announced that Zhuhai in China will host the final round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup on November 13. The event will be open to GTC and Formula Le Mans cars entered by local teams as well as the regular ILMC entrants
Fernandes receives his CBE
March 31st, 2011
Team Lotus Principal Tony Fernandes has been awarded a CBE in London today by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II. The newly-honoured Fernandes receives the award for his ‘services to promote commercial and educational links’ between the UK and Malaysia. As well as his high-profile Formula 1 commitments, the Malaysian entrepreneur is also Group CEO of low cost airline AirAsia.
Lotus in demo run in Putrajaya
March 31st, 2011
Jarno Trulli and Heikki Kovalainen will be in Putrajaya this Saturday to participate in a street demonstration organised by Team Lotus. Ahead of next weekend’s Malaysian Grand Prix, the Lotus team-mates will ‘compete’ on a temporary street circuit in the administrative capital as part of a showcase arranged in collaboration with the Sepang International Circuit and Team Lotus partner AirAsia. SIC Chief Executive Officer Dato Ahmad Razlan Ahmad Razali is expected to attend the demonstration outside Malaysia’s Palace of Justice, as are several Malaysian cabinet ministers
Pedrosa to undergo surgery after Jerez
March 31st, 2011
Spanish rider Dani Pedrosa will undergo surgery after the Spanish Grand Prix after being diagnosed with intermittent compression of the subclavian artery. The condition causes numbness and lack of strength in his left arm, a problem that affected the Honda rider during the season-opening race in Qatar.
Chaves tops second day of testing
March 31st, 2011
American rookie Gabby Chaves set the quickest time during the second day of the GP3 test at Silverstone on Wednesday. The 17-year-old Addax driver posted a lap of 1m50.799s late in the morning session, displacing Arden’s Lewis Williamson, who had topped the timesheets since mid-morning
Raikkonen set for May debut in Trucks
March 31st, 2011
Former Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen will make his NASCAR Camping World Truck series debut at the Charlotte Motor Speedway on May 20. Following the surprise announcement that Raikkonen will enter selected rounds of the Truck series this year, NASCAR has confirmed via Twitter that the Finn’s request to enter the N.C. Education lottery 200 at Charlotte has been successful.
Sauber hails ‘outstanding’ Perez
March 31st, 2011
Sauber team boss Peter Sauber has hailed Sergio Perez’s performance in the Australian Grand Prix as “outstanding”. The Mexican rookie put on a superb showing in Melbourne on his way to seventh place, although he and team-mate Kamui Kobayashi were latter disqualified for a technical infringement. Perez was the only driver who managed to complete the race on a one-stop strategy, and Sauber conceded he was impressed by his performance
Loeb denies Volkswagen link
March 31st, 2011
Sebastien Loeb has denied any contact with Volkswagen regarding the German firm’s much talked about WRC programme. Recent speculation hinted that Loeb, the World Rally Championship’s most successful driver ever, had already engaged in early discussions regarding a switch from Citroen to VW for 2012 – with figures of up to €15m for next season talked about. “No,” said Loeb.
Monras quickest in Snetterton test
March 31st, 2011
Spanish driver Miki Monras topped the final day of pre-season Formula 2 testing at Snetterton on Wednesday. The GP3 graduate was over four tenths of a second quicker than Will Bratt, who had a promising outing after testing F2 machinery for the first time since the end of last season.
