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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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Contributing WriterAllen 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.
Montoya would welcome Raikkonen
March 30th, 2011
Juan Pablo Montoya says it would be good news for the sport if his former McLaren team-mate Kimi Raikkonen moves to NASCAR. Former Formula 1 world champion Raikkonen will follow Montoya’s footsteps in moving to America’s most popular form of racing this year.
Onslow-Cole completes first Golf test
March 30th, 2011
Tom Onslow-Cole had his first proper run in the AmD Milltek Volkswagen Golf that he will race in the British Touring Car Championship at Brands Hatch on Tuesday. Overboost problems ruled the seven-time race winner out of the previous week’s official BTCC test at Silverstone, meaning that the 100 laps completed at Brands Hatch were his first opportunity to assess the car. AmD team principal Shaun Hollamby said that the test had gone well and that hopes were high for this weekend’s season-opener at the same circuit.
Glock says fitness no issue for Sepang
March 30th, 2011
Virgin Racing’s Timo Glock is unconcerned that the recent surgical operation to remove his appendix could harm his preparation ahead of the Malaysian Grand Prix. Although Glock competed at the Australian Grand Prix without discomfort, suggestions in the paddock that the high speeds and stifling humidity indicative of the sweeping Sepang International Circuit could pose higher risks. The German was confident, however, that a few aches and pains wouldn’t slow him down.
Glock worried about Virgin’s form
March 30th, 2011
Timo Glock believes Virgin Racing risks failing to qualify for forthcoming grand prix events this year unless significant improvements are made to the performance of their cars. Virgin was optimistic during pre-season testing that its performance had improved after a difficult debut season in Formula 1. Yet both Glock and new team-mate Jerome D’Ambrosio could only qualify on the back row for the Australian Grand Prix after struggling badly for pace.
Hamilton: Red Bull will need KERS
March 30th, 2011
Lewis Hamilton believes Red Bull Racing cannot afford to continue without KERS for much longer if it expects to stay ahead of his McLaren team.
Chaves tops Silverstone testing
March 30th, 2011
Gabby Chaves posted the quickest time of the day in GP3 testing at the Silverstone circuit on Tuesday. The Addax team driver’s 1m51.449s, set in the afternoon session, was enough to put him on top of the times, over a tenth of a second ahead of Nico Muller in the Jenzer Motorsport car. In what was the second of three pre-season tests for GP3, Lotus ART’s Valtteri Bottas finished as third quickest with the fastest time of the morning session.
Karthikeyan trusts to make Sepang grid
March 30th, 2011
Narain Karthikeyan is confident his Hispania team will be able to qualify in the Malaysian Grand Prix next week.
Q and A with Alister McRae
March 30th, 2011
Alister McRae talks about his return to the FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship with PROTON Motorsports, ahead of this week’s series opener, the Malaysian Rally. Q. You’ve started a few championships now, do you have the same enthusiasm as before
Kowalska confirms F2 return
March 29th, 2011
Polish driver Natalia Kowalska will return to the Formula 2 championship for another season in 2011. The 21-year-old made her Formula 2 debut in 2010, finishing in 19th position with three points scored
Lorenzo optimistic for ‘special’ Jerez
March 29th, 2011
MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo believes he can take the fight to the dominant Hondas as the series moves to Jerez this weekend. The Yamaha rider finished a strong second in the last round at Qatar, beating Honda’s Dani Pedrosa into third place, despite voicing his pessimism after struggling in pre-season testing. In 2010 Lorenzo fought back from a poor start at Jerez to snatch the lead on the final lap.
Sauber will not appeal race exclusion
March 29th, 2011
The Sauber team has decided not to go ahead with its appeal against the decision to be excluded from the Australian Grand Prix. Both Sergio Perez and Kamui Kobayashi – seventh and eighth in the race – were disqualified from the Melbourne event for infringements relating to the rear wings of their cars. A radius on the upper rear wing element on the cars contravened the regulations by a few millimetres.
Rossi expects better form at Jerez
March 29th, 2011
Valentino Rossi expects that the layout of the circuit at Jerez will be less stressful to his injured shoulder than Qatar, where he finished seventh in his debut for Ducati on March 20. Rossi underwent surgery over the winter following a motocross accident earlier in 2010, but complained of pain throughout the Qatar weekend
Raikkonen to compete in NASCAR
March 29th, 2011
Former Formula 1 world champion Kimi Raikkonen will make a surprising move to NASCAR this year, the Finn joining the series with a new team. According to the Turun Sanomat newspaper, Raikkonen – the 2007 world champion – will be racing with the new ICE1 Racing team in the Truck series before moving on to the Nationwide and Sprint Cup series
Renault confident of more podiums
March 29th, 2011
Renault believes it can deliver another podium-finishing performance in the Malaysian Grand Prix, after Vitaly Petrov’s encouraging result in Australia. Following a difficult winter when Robert Kubica was injured in a rally crash, Renault was given a major morale boost as Petrov delivered the maiden podium finish of his career at Albert Park.
Brawn blames set-up for poor weekend
March 29th, 2011
Ross Brawn has blamed Mercedes GP’s disappointing performance in the Australian Grand Prix on the inconsistent handling of its car. The Brackley-based outfit had gone into the Melbourne weekend full of confidence that its W02 was good enough to lead the chasing pack behind Red Bull Racing. But neither Nico Rosberg nor Michael Schumacher could get fully comfortable with the car throughout practice, and the team struggled to get all elements of its package working as it had hoped
Sauber targets Spain for new diffuser
March 29th, 2011
Sauber expects to have its 2011-style exhaust blown diffuser system ready in time for the Spanish Grand Prix, as it looks to build on the promising pace of its new C30. Although the team came away from Australia with no points after a technical infringement led to both cars being disqualified, the outfit is encouraged by the handling characteristics of the car.
Pirelli considers tweaking markings
March 29th, 2011
Pirelli is considering a tweak to its tyre marking system after difficulties distinguishing the colours over the Australian Grand Prix weekend. Ahead of the race, Pirelli announced that its tyres would have different coloured lettering this year to distinguish their compound – with the soft (yellow) and hard (silver) being used in Melbourne. But with teams finding it difficult at times to work out which colour tyres were in use when the cars were in action, Pirelli has promised to re-examine its plan.
Alonso: Australia was no disaster
March 29th, 2011
Fernando Alonso says there was nothing “disastrous” about Ferrari’s performance at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Although the Spaniard and his team arrived in Melbourne as one of the favourites to fight for victory, the reality was different, and the Italian squad did not have the pace to match Red Bull or McLaren