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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.

Gresini to race at Valencia

October 31st, 2011

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Gresini to race at Valencia

Gresini Racing has announced that it will compete in the Valencia Grand Prix as a tribute to its late rider Marco Simoncelli. Fausto Gresini had initially indicated that his team would withdraw from the season finale in the wake of Simoncelli’s death in a crash on lap two of the Malaysian GP.

‘Minute’s noise’ mooted for Simoncelli

October 31st, 2011

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‘Minute’s noise’ mooted for Simoncelli

Marco Simoncelli’s father Paolo has requested that a ‘minute of noise’ is held during this weekend’s Valencia Grand Prix in memory of his son, rather than the traditional minute’s silence. Simoncelli died when he crashed on lap two of the Malaysian Grand Prix and was struck by the following bikes of Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi. His funeral took place in Coriano last Thursday.

Engine supply role ‘ideal’ for Renault

October 31st, 2011

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Engine supply role ‘ideal’ for Renault

Renault’s commitment to Formula 1 for the long-term future is stronger now than at any time in its recent history, claims its CEO Carlos Ghosn. Although the French car manufacturer will officially cease to have its own team in 2012 with the Renault outfit set to be renamed Lotus, Ghosn believes that the push for the company to become just an engine supplier is a much better approach

Hayes to stand in for Edwards

October 31st, 2011

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Hayes to stand in for Edwards

American Superbike champion Josh Hayes will stand in for the injured Colin Edwards at Tech 3 Yamaha in this weekend’s Valencia Grand Prix.

Ferrari to investigate Massa’s wing

October 31st, 2011

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Ferrari to investigate Massa’s wing

Ferrari is keen to find answers as to why Felipe Massa’s front wing experienced excessive flexing over the Indian Grand Prix weekend. With the Maranello-based outfit experimenting with wing concepts for its 2012 design, eyebrows were raised when the front wing on Massa’s car started flapping at the end of the long straight during practice at the Buddh circuit.

Red Bull says Vettel not taking risks

October 31st, 2011

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Red Bull says Vettel not taking risks

Red Bull Racing has faith that Sebastian Vettel is not taking too many risks in his pursuit of fastest laps – even though the team admits it does not like the world champion pushing so hard for the accolade. Vettel set the fastest lap of the Indian Grand Prix right at the very end of the race – just a fortnight after telling his bosses that he would not push for such a feat again. Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner said that the team was not in favour of the pursuit of fastest laps, but reckoned that Vettel was intelligent enough not to throw away a race result to chase them.

Ecclestone hails Indian GP a success

October 31st, 2011

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Ecclestone hails Indian GP a success

Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has hailed the inaugural Indian Grand Prix a success. With improvements to the infrastructure already in the pipeline for next year after a wide range of teething problems were experienced over the weekend, Ecclestone sees only a positive future for the event.

McLaren: Hamilton too hard on himself

October 31st, 2011

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McLaren: Hamilton too hard on himself

Lewis Hamilton is being too hard on himself and should stop apologising to his team for the ongoing troubles he is having on track. That is the view of McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh, who says he has already made his views clear to Hamilton that the young Briton should stop feeling so responsible for everything that is happening to him right now.

Stewart snatches win from Johnson

October 31st, 2011

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Stewart snatches win from Johnson

Tony Stewart claimed his third NASCAR Sprint Cup win of the season at Martinsville by passing Jimmie Johnson on the penultimate lap, and jumped back up to second in the Chase standings. The two-time champion rebounded from fighting to remain on the lead lap early on and then from an unscheduled pitstop for a suspected puncture to be in position to contend for victory following a two-tyre pitstop during a late caution