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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.

Q and A: FIA on new engine regulations

June 30th, 2011

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Q and A: FIA on new engine regulations

Conducted and provided by the FIA communications department 1. The World Motor Sport Council voted on 29 June 2011

FIA: V6s will sound like F1 engines

June 30th, 2011

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FIA: V6s will sound like F1 engines

The FIA is adamant that the sound of the new generation of Formula 1 engines due to come into force in 2014 will be ‘representative’ of the contemporary power-units.

Block’s F1 plans hit early snag

June 30th, 2011

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Block’s F1 plans hit early snag

Ken Block’s plans to test Pirelli’s Formula 1 test car at Monza in August have hit an early hurdle after it was discovered he is too tall to fit into the car. The WRC-driver, who is famous for his Gymkhana videos, had planned to test the former Toyota F1 car on the final day of a Pirelli test at the Italian Grand Prix venue. The American travelled to Toyota Motorsport’s factory in Cologne on Thursday for some early preparations, and a run in the simulator, but the plans hit a snag straightaway.

Palmer to make one-off F2 return

June 30th, 2011

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Palmer to make one-off F2 return

Last year’s Formula 2 runner-up Jolyon Palmer will return to the series for a one-off at the Nurburgring this weekend. The Briton now races in GP2 with Arden, and is taking the opportunity to learn the German circuit ahead of the GP2 rounds there later in July. Palmer narrowly lost out to Dean Stoneman in last season’s F2 title race.

HRT confirms Ricciardo’s race debut

June 30th, 2011

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HRT confirms Ricciardo’s race debut

Hispania has confirmed that Daniel Ricciardo will make his Formula 1 racing debut in one of its cars at the British Grand Prix. Red Bull protege Ricciardo has been third driver for Toro Rosso so far this season, alongside a campaign in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series. “It’s a dream come true for me – for the first time on an F1 starting grid!” said Ricciardo.

Red Bull: Drivers are evenly-matched

June 30th, 2011

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Red Bull: Drivers are evenly-matched

Red Bull Racing’s head of car engineering Paul Monaghan believes that the level of competitiveness at the front of the grid is exaggerating the difference between Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber. Webber has come under pressure for failing to match Vettel this season, leaving him 77 points adrift of his championship-leading team-mate. But Monaghan believes that there has not been much between the two drivers this year.

Kolles to step aside in HRT reshuffle

June 30th, 2011

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Kolles to step aside in HRT reshuffle

HRT is set to undertake a management reshuffle in the next few weeks, with team principal Colin Kolles poised to step aside to allow the owning Carabante family to take more direct control.

Whitmarsh: US needs two grands prix

June 30th, 2011

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Whitmarsh: US needs two grands prix

FOTA chairman Martin Whitmarsh wants Formula 1 to hold two races per season in America to enable the sport to ‘conquer’ the country.

Button not ready for future talks yet

June 30th, 2011

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Button not ready for future talks yet

Jenson Button says he is not ready to discuss his future just yet, as he is enjoying working with McLaren so much at the moment. “I don’t want to think about the future because I’m still enjoying the present

Ricciardo set to replace Karthikeyan

June 30th, 2011

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Ricciardo set to replace Karthikeyan

Daniel Ricciardo is set to make his Formula 1 debut at the British Grand Prix for HRT as replacement for Narain Karthikeyan. After discussions between the Spanish outfit and Scuderia Toro Rosso, for whom Ricciardo is a test driver, it is understood that a deal is close for the Australian to be drafted in to a race seat at Silverstone

Stoner: Ducati hired Rossi because I left

June 30th, 2011

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Stoner: Ducati hired Rossi because I left

Casey Stoner says Ducati hired Valentino Rossi only because he decided to leave the Italian marque. Stoner, the 2007 world champion, spent four years at Ducati before leaving for Honda at the end of the 2010 season. He won 23 races with the Italian manufacturer

Porsche back at Le Mans with new LMP1

June 30th, 2011

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Porsche back at Le Mans with new LMP1

Porsche will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours with a full factory LMP1 prototype in 2014, the Stuttgart-based sportscar manufacturer has announced. As the event’s most successful manufacturer, the company has not been represented in a works capacity in the top class at Le Mans since 1998 when Porsche claimed the last of its 16 outright victories with Allan McNish, Stephane Ortelli and Laurent Aiello in the 911 GT1. It has retained a strong presence in the GT class since then, however

Qantas to help Webber learn to fly

June 30th, 2011

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Qantas to help Webber learn to fly

Australian airlines Qantas has announced plans to help its ambassador Mark Webber to obtain his pilot’s licence. Qantas will provide mentoring support with one of the airline’s training pilots and time in its flight simulators

Carroll to make FR3.5 debut in Hungary

June 30th, 2011

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Carroll to make FR3.5 debut in Hungary

Former A1 GP champion and GP2 race winner Adam Carroll is set to make his Formula Renault 3.5 debut at the Hungaroring this weekend. The Northern Irish racer will drive for P1 Motorsport in place of Austrian Walter Grubmuller, who sustained a back injury in a qualifying accident at the Nurburgring on June 19th. Carroll has strong links to the Norfolk-based team, having finished runner-up to Nelsinho Piquet in a P1-engineered car in the 2004 British Formula 3 championship.

Arena Motorsport to attend Goodwood

June 30th, 2011

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Arena Motorsport to attend Goodwood

British Touring Car team Arena Motorsport will be part of the Goodwood Festival of Speed this weekend. Tom Chilton, who currently lies eighth in the BTCC standings for Arena, will drive the squad’s latest Ford Focus up the hill on all three days. He will be joined by former BTCC ace Paul Radisich in the 1993 Monza World Cup-winning Mondeo and off-road star Ken Block in a Fiesta WRC machine, as Ford celebrates its centenary

Power completes Mid-Ohio test

June 30th, 2011

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Power completes Mid-Ohio test

Will Power completed a test at Mid-Ohio after being cleared to drive again following his shunt in the Iowa 250 event last weekend. The Australian Penske driver suffered a mild concussion after crashing heavily at Turn 2 while attempting to lap Vitor Meira before half distance and was required to take a mandatory ImPACT (Immediate Post-concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing) before being deemed fit to drive on the road course alongside team-mates Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe.

Austin city council endorsing US GP

June 30th, 2011

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Austin city council endorsing US GP

Next year’s United States Grand Prix in Austin has been given a major boost by the city council officially endorsing the race. The vote, which was passed 5-2, comes despite high-profile criticism of the cost of the event during the lengthy deliberation period.