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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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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.
Turkish GP loses 2012 calendar slot
August 31st, 2011
The Turkish Grand Prix has been officially dropped from next year’s Formula 1 calendar, after the FIA announced the definitive 20-race schedule on Wednesday.
Jackson: Knockhill will suit Chevys
August 31st, 2011
Mat Jackson believes that this weekend’s British Touring Car Championship round at Knockhill will play to the strengths of the rival Chevrolet squad. Jackson took the championship lead for the first time this season following his race three win at Snetterton last time out and has tasted success on four occasions in 2011. However, the Motorbase Performance driver carrying 45kg of success ballast and the turbocharged cars have had their engines pegged back on a number of occasions against the normally-aspirated cars, such as the Chevys and the WSR BMWs this season
Herbert and Blundell back to Sciroccos
August 31st, 2011
Johnny Herbert and Mark Blundell will return to the Volkswagen Scirocco-R Cup at Brands Hatch this weekend and will be joined by Tiff Needell, Mark Higgins and Nicolas and Anthony Hamilton in guest cars. Herbert, a three-time grand prix winner, made his debut in the DTM support series at the British circuit last year and then took a pole position at the season-ending round at Hockenheim, while Blundell – another ex-F1 racer – made it onto the podium at the Brands Hatch event in 2010.
Neal fit to race at Knockhill
August 31st, 2011
Matt Neal will continue his British Touring Car Championship title challenge at Knockhill this weekend, despite breaking his right hand recently. Neal, who lies 3rd in the championship behind Mat Jackson and his Honda team-mate Gordon Shedden, had been a doubt for the round after sustaining the injury in a martial arts training session
Smedley to auction F1 goodies
August 31st, 2011
An exclusive tour of the Ferrari factory, hospitality at a Formula 1 test, signed overalls from leading drivers including Felipe Massa and Paul di Resta, plus signed Fernando Alonso gloves, are the latest items that have been added to a special charity auction taking place this week. Massa’s race engineer Rob Smedley and his wife Lucy are helping raise funds for childrens’ charity, Zoe’s Place Baby Hospices , with a dinner at the Beamish Hall Country House Hotel on Friday – where he will be a guest speaker.
Pedrosa aiming for Misano repeat
August 30th, 2011
Dani Pedrosa says repeating his 2010 triumph will be the main target as MotoGP heads to Misano, San Marino, for the 13th round of the season.
Maldonado vows to keep fighting
August 30th, 2011
Pastor Maldonado says he is determined to keep fighting as hard as he has all season for results in Formula 1, after scoring his first championship points in Belgium last weekend.
Sam Michael Q and A: Williams at Spa
August 30th, 2011
Interview provided by Williams press office.
Button ready for new McLaren deal
August 30th, 2011
Jenson Button says he is now just waiting for McLaren to take up his option for next year, with him fully expecting to be at the team next year. The 31-year-old Briton has yet to confirm his drive for next year, but the team is understood to be working on a new, more expansive longterm contract that ties Button to McLaren beyond 2012 – rather than simply picking up its one-year option that it holds on his services.
Gordon Murray joins Group Lotus
August 30th, 2011
Gordon Murray, the legendary Formula 1 designer, has joined Group Lotus as a member of its Advisory Council. Murray’s new role will see him work alongside leading car industry figures like Bob Lutz and Dr. Burkhard Goeschel, to advise Group Lotus on current and future development of its company and products.
Triple Eight sign Smith for Knockhill
August 30th, 2011
British Touring Car squad Triple Eight has signed Aron Smith to drive its second Vauxhall Vectra at the Knockhill round this weekend. Tony Gilham had started the season as team-mate to lead driver James Nash, but budget issues forced him out of the drive last week.
Boullier convinced Senna right choice
August 30th, 2011
Renault has got back itself back in the ‘positive’ mood that it needs to make progress up the grid, reckons team boss Eric Boullier, on the back of Bruno Senna’s morale boosting performance in Belgium last weekend. Although Senna’s race hopes were effectively dashed by an error at the first corner, the way the Brazilian dealt with the pressure of the weekend and put himself seventh on the grid has left Boullier convinced he did the right thing in shaking up his driver line-up
Two separate DRS zones for Monza
August 29th, 2011
The FIA is to use two independent DRS zones for the first time at the forthcoming Italian Grand Prix. At most venues this year there has been only one zone in which the overtaking device can be deployed during races, but in Montreal and Valencia two areas were set up. At those events the two DRS zones were on consecutive straights, but with a single detection point allowing drivers to trigger their wing flap for both
Volvo gets Valencia weight increase
August 29th, 2011
The Volvo C30 has been given a slight weight increase for the next round of the World Touring Car Championship at Valencia this weekend. The increase, which only affects Robert Dahlgren’s Polestar Racing-run model, comes after the compensation weight was adjusted in accordance with the pace of all competing cars over the past three championship rounds.
McLaren didn’t change set-up for tyres
August 29th, 2011
Martin Whitmarsh says his McLaren team decided there was no need for a camber change and that it could safely complete a stint on the blistered Pirelli tyres that Lewis Hamilton had to start the Belgian Grand Prix on. Several leading drivers – including both Red Bull men and Hamilton – picked up blisters on the soft Pirellis in Q3 on Saturday, and there were concerns over whether it would be safe to start the race on them
Swanwick to make BTCC history
August 29th, 2011
Chris Swanwick will become the youngest driver to start a British Touring Car Championship race when he joins the series at Brands Hatch in October. Swanwick, 17, was signed as Rob Austin Racing’s development driver last month and has tested one of the team’s NGTC-spec Audi A4s at Pembrey and Rockingham. The team has now confirmed that he will race at the final two events of the year, which should enable him to break the record currently held by Tom Chilton.
Whitmarsh: DRS a success at Spa
August 29th, 2011
McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh has rejected suggestions that the DRS made overtaking at Spa too easy, and believes it created just the right level of entertainment in the Belgian Grand Prix. The Kemmel Straight after Eau Rouge was chosen as the DRS zone for the race, and saw plenty of passing throughout the field – with drivers ahead finding it hard to successfully defend against their pursuers. Ferrari boss Stefano Domenicali suggested that because drivers were already close behind rivals through Eau Rouge, the DRS effect was multiplied and made overtaking a foregone conclusion
Q and A: Horner on Spa win and tyres
August 29th, 2011
Spa saw Red Bull Racing deliver its first one-two finish since May’s Turkish Grand Prix, and Sebastian Vettel end a brief victory drought that had seen him off the top step of the podium since Valencia in June. But it was not a straightforward event, with the champion team at the centre of controversy over blistering Pirelli tyres. AUTOSPORT was there to hear team chief Christian Horner’s explanation
RBR ‘not comfortable’ with tyre issue
August 29th, 2011
Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner has confessed that he did not feel totally ‘comfortable’ in the build-up to the Belgian Grand Prix because of the tyre blistering issues suffered by his drivers in qualifying.