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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.

Rigon fills Coloni GP2 seat

April 30th, 2011

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Rigon fills Coloni GP2 seat

Davide Rigon has completed a deal to return to GP2 with Coloni this year. The Italian, who has taken Beijing Gouan and Anderlecht to Superleague Formula titles and has also been signed by Ferrari as a development driver, previously raced in GP2 with Trident in 2009. He joins Coloni after taking part in recent tests with the squad, and fills the gap alongside Michael Herck that was created when James Jakes left Coloni for a Dale Coyne Racing IndyCar seat following the GP2 Asia campaign.

Merhi takes Hockenheim victory

April 30th, 2011

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Merhi takes Hockenheim victory

Roberto Merhi survived a late race attack from Marco Wittmann to win the first Formula 3 Euro Series race of the weekend at Hockenheim. The Prema Powerteam driver held on to the lead from pole position after defending from his team-mate Daniel Juncadella at the start.

Wickens takes Spa FR3.5 pole

April 30th, 2011

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Robert Wickens claimed his second Formula Renault 3.5 pole position of the season in an incident-packed qualifying at Spa-Francorchamps this morning. A late red flag produced a congested final two laps of action, as drivers rushed to make their final set of new tyres count. Wickens set his fastest time of 2m02.855s just 30 seconds before the chequered flag.

Chilton sets Thruxton practice pace

April 30th, 2011

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Chilton sets Thruxton practice pace

Tom Chilton topped the times in the first practice session for the British Touring Car Championship rounds at Thruxton this morning. Chilton’s Arena Ford recorded a 1m18.551s to pip the rapid Special Tuning Racing SEAT of Tom Boardman by two tenths of a second. Donington Park race winners Mat Jackson (Motorbase Ford) and Andrew Jordan (Eurotech Vauxhall) were next as the turbo cars continued to dominate despite their recent boost reduction

Capirossi leads damp final session

April 30th, 2011

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Capirossi leads damp final session

Loris Capirossi set a surprise fastest time in a damp final practice session at Estoril.

Scheider tops final practice

April 30th, 2011

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Scheider tops final practice

Timo Scheider set the pace in the final DTM practice session for this weekend’s opening round of the season at Hockenheim. The two-time series champion leapt to the top of the timesheets on his final flying lap of the 90-minute session to lead an Audi clean sweep of the top three positions.

Whincup leads Triple 8 one-two

April 30th, 2011

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Jamie Whincup led a Triple Eight Holden one-two in the first of this weekend’s three V8 Supercar races at Barbagallo. The polesitter held the edge throughout the 50-lap event, but came under pressure from his team-mate Craig Lowndes in the second half of the race. Lowndes had run fourth behind Will Davison (FPR Ford) and Steven Johnson (DJR Ford) in the opening stages, before opting to make his pitstop on lap 14 and change just two tyres

Kahne hopes knee issue resolved

April 30th, 2011

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Kahne hopes knee issue resolved

Kasey Kahne expects to put his recent knee issues behind him after undergoing yet another operation on his right knee a couple of weeks ago. Last November the Red Bull Racing driver had arthroscopic surgery on both knees in order to remove tissue that had been causing him discomfort, having been diagnosed with Plica Syndrome

Hamlin eyes rebound at Richmond

April 30th, 2011

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Hamlin eyes rebound at Richmond

Denny Hamlin hopes wins in support races at Richmond can boost his chances of getting his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory of the season at the track this weekend, following a lacklustre start to his 2011 campaign. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver, who finished runner up to Jimmie Johnson in the 2010 title race, ranks 17th in the driver standings after eight races this season, his best result being a seventh place at Las Vegas, his only top-10 finish of the year

Whincup takes pole for race one

April 30th, 2011

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Whincup takes pole for race one

Jamie Whincup will start from pole position for the first of this weekend’s V8 Supercar races at Barbagallo. The Triple 8 Holden driver led the way in this morning’s 20-minute qualifying session with a 56.0734s lap, which put him 0.2 seconds clear of front row partner Will Davison’s FPR Ford. Craig Lowndes will start third in the second Triple 8 car, ahead of Steven Johnson and Rick Kelly.

Montoya claims Richmond pole

April 30th, 2011

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Montoya claims Richmond pole

Juan Pablo Montoya claimed his second pole position of the season in qualifying for Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond. The Earnhardt Ganassi driver had been fastest in the final practice session of the day while making qualifying simulations and then went on to improve his pace in qualifying lap by a huge 0.6 seconds relative to his previous best. The Colombian, running late in the order, was the only driver breaking the 21 second bracket with a second flying lap of 20.989s at an average speed of 128.639 mph, which gave him his first NASCAR pole position at Richmond, his second of 2011 and the seventh of his Cup career

Hamilton still set to make Clio race

April 29th, 2011

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Hamilton still set to make Clio race

Nicolas Hamilton may still be able to take part in tomorrow’s Renault Clio Cup race, despite a heavy accident during practice at Thruxton today. The younger brother of Formula 1 ace Lewis Hamilton started his car racing career this season, driving for Total Control Racing in the British Touring Car Championship-supporting Clio Cup. Hamilton lost control of his car at the 100mph Goodwood corner late in the morning session at the high-speed circuit.

Pedrosa content with physical state

April 29th, 2011

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Pedrosa content with physical state

Dani Pedrosa declared himself satisfied with his physical condition in Estoril practice after his recent surgery, but felt he had not managed enough running to be confident of his fitness going into the Portuguese Grand Prix weekend. After the Jerez race earlier this month, Pedrosa had an operation to remove a plate from his collarbone – inserted after his Motegi 2010 crash – that was causing a loss of feeling in his arm. He was an encouraging third fastest today at Estoril, though wished he had been able to do more longer runs to fully assess his condition

Rossi pleased with improved fitness

April 29th, 2011

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Rossi pleased with improved fitness

Valentino Rossi believes he has taken another step forward in fitness between the Spanish and Portuguese Grands Prix, having finished Friday practice at Estoril today fourth fastest. With the postponement of the Japanese GP following last month’s natural disasters in the nation, there has been a near-month-long gap in the MotoGP schedule, and Rossi felt he was riding more naturally when the series resumed today that at any time since he damaged his shoulder in a Motocross crash a year ago. “I’m pretty satisfied with how the day went,” he said

Simoncelli not ruling out Estoril win

April 29th, 2011

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Simoncelli not ruling out Estoril win

Marco Simoncelli says a maiden MotoGP podium finish at least and potentially a race win is his goal for the Portuguese Grand Prix after he dominated Friday practice at Estoril. The Gresini rider, who has a factory-spec Honda, was quickest in both sessions today. He looked on course for victory in the Spanish GP at Jerez earlier this month, only to crash out while leading the wet race.

Vernay joins Pons for Spa FR3.5

April 29th, 2011

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Vernay joins Pons for Spa FR3.5

Indy Lights champion and Peugeot Le Mans reserve driver Jean-Karl Vernay will make his Formula Renault 3.5 debut with Pons Racing at Spa this weekend. Vernay will occupy the team’s second seat in place of Kiwi Dominic Storey in what is understood to be, at the moment, a one-off. “Unfortunately, I think it is unlikely that Dominic will return this season,” said team manager Jordi Pons.

Ramos leads Spa FR3.5 practice

April 29th, 2011

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Ramos leads Spa FR3.5 practice

Fortec’s Cesar Ramos led the way in Formula Renault 3.5 free practice at Spa-Francorchamps today. The Brazilian, who claimed pole position for the second race of the season at Motorland Aragon a fortnight ago, set the quickest time of 2m04.337s in this afternoon’s second session

Wittmann and Merhi take poles

April 29th, 2011

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Wittmann and Merhi take poles

Marco Wittmann and Roberto Merhi took the two pole positions on offer from F3 Euro Series qualifying at Hockenheim. The pair were engaged in a scrap during the session for the overall fastest time – which sets the grid for race three on Sunday. Merhi appeared to be in control of that battle when he rattled off two laps in succession that were good enough for pole with six minutes remaining

Hamilton’s brother survives big crash

April 29th, 2011

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Hamilton’s brother survives big crash

Nicolas Hamilton, brother of Formula 1 star Lewis Hamilton, is unlikely to race at Thruxton this weekend after a testing crash today. Hamilton has stepped into racing this season in the British Touring Car Championship-supporting Renault Clio Cup with Total Control Racing

Bautista thrilled to be back in action

April 29th, 2011

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Bautista thrilled to be back in action

Alvaro Bautista was delighted to be back in action in practice for the Portuguese MotoGP event following his leg injury. The Suzuki rider had broken his left leg in the first race of the season in Qatar, but returned to action just over a month later in today’s session. Although he finished at the bottom of the times in both sessions, Bautista was elated to be able to ride again.