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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.

India Sunday quotes: Pirelli

October 30th, 2011

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Paul Hembery: “Without knowing exactly how the circuit would be, we decided to bring the hard tyre to India, which was a deliberately conservative choice. This led to some very interesting strategies, with a few drivers running the hard compound at the very beginning of the race and others using it at the very end

India Sunday quotes: Virgin

October 30th, 2011

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Jerome D’Ambrosio – 16th: “In the end we did what we had to. The team did a great job with the strategy and I pushed hard to close the gap.

Karthikeyan vindicated by performance

October 30th, 2011

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Karthikeyan vindicated by performance

Narain Karthikeyan believes he proved a point with his drive in the Indian Grand Prix after coming home in 17th position. The Indian, making a one-off return to racing in place of regular HRT driver Tonio Liuzzi, crossed the finish line ahead of team-mate Daniel Ricciardo and also the Lotus of Jarno Trulli

India Sunday quotes: Mercedes

October 30th, 2011

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Michael Schumacher – 5th: “I am obviously happy about the race today. We achieved the maximum that we could hope for, and as a team we maximised our potential. Fifth and sixth places are a great result for us

Schumacher delighted with result

October 30th, 2011

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Schumacher delighted with result

Michael Schumacher said he was extremely pleased to achieve the maximum result possible for Mercedes in India, as he came through from 11th on the grid to beat his team-mate Nico Rosberg to fifth place. Schumacher made up several positions on the opening lap, then jumped his team-mate by staying out slightly longer at the final stops.

India Sunday quotes: HRT

October 30th, 2011

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Narain Karthikeyan – 17th: “I had a great grand prix and I really enjoyed myself, it was an amazing experience.

India Sunday quotes: Williams

October 30th, 2011

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Rubens Barrichello – 15th: I lost my nose going into the first corner at the start so I had to come in for an unscheduled pitstop. That ruined my race from the outset because I came out of the pits so far behind

India Sunday quotes: Sauber

October 30th, 2011

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Sergio Perez – 10th: “I’m very happy to have scored that point today. At least this way I can pay back something to the team after I made that mistake on Friday, for which I received the grid penalty of three places.

India Sunday quotes: Toro Rosso

October 30th, 2011

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Jaime Alguersuari – 8th: “I am very happy with the performance of the team overall as this race was another good one for us, with a pace that was as quick as the one we had shown in Korea. I managed to pass Senna and then Sutil because of this. I was also ahead of the Saubers and I think this result reflects where we should be in the order.

Alguersuari sure STR can pass Sauber

October 30th, 2011

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Alguersuari sure STR can pass Sauber

Jamie Alguersuari is confident his Toro Rosso team will finish ahead of Sauber this year after having caught the Swiss squad after the Indian Grand Prix. Alguersuari finished in the points for the second race in succession after coming home in eighth position following another strong display by the Faenza-based squad. The Spanish driver was delighted with the result, which allowed Toro Rosso to match the amount of points of Sauber: 41

India Sunday quotes: Lotus

October 30th, 2011

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Heikki Kovalainen – 14th: “I had another good start, maybe not quite up there with the last two races, but avoided the problems in turn 1 and 3 and from there I had a really strong race. At one point I was running 10th and the car felt great all afternoon.

Button says Vettel was out of reach

October 30th, 2011

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Button says Vettel was out of reach

Jenson Button admitted he did not have quite enough pace to threaten Sebastian Vettel in the Indian Grand Prix.

Hamilton: Massa left no room

October 30th, 2011

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Hamilton: Massa left no room

Lewis Hamilton felt Felipe Massa left him no space in their collision in the Indian Grand Prix, and admitted that the Brazilian was not currently speaking to him.

Mixed emotions for winner Vettel

October 30th, 2011

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Mixed emotions for winner Vettel

Sebastian Vettel admitted he was left with mixed emotions following his win in the Indian Grand Prix after a tragic two weeks for the world of motorsport.

Vettel cruises to Indian GP victory

October 30th, 2011

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Vettel cruises to Indian GP victory

Sebastian Vettel strolled to his 11th victory of the season at the Buddh International Circuit to become the winner of Formula 1′s first ever Indian Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver’s latest triumph was one of his most straightforward of his ultra-successful year

Bortolotti on pole for final race

October 30th, 2011

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Bortolotti on pole for final race

Mirko Bortolotti continued his imperious form at Barcelona to take pole position – his third straight and ninth of the season – for the final Formula 2 race of the year.

Bouffier ruled out of IRC title fight

October 30th, 2011

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Bouffier ruled out of IRC title fight

Monte Carlo winner Bryan Bouffier will not be among the contenders for the Intercontinental Rally Challenge title in next week’s Cyprus decider after Peugeot decided to only send Thierry Neuville to the event. Neither Bouffier nor Neuville had originally been expected to contest the finale, but their strong results meant they were among six drivers still in contention for the championship

Loeb launches sportscar team

October 30th, 2011

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Loeb launches sportscar team

Seven-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb is launching his own sportscar team, with entries in the Le Mans Series and France’s Porsche Cup planned for 2012, and says the project will be his post-rallying future. The rallying legend has long hinted that he would consider a career in circuit racing when he retires from the WRC, having already twice raced in the Le Mans 24 Hours and other smaller events.

Sutil welcomes early driver decision

October 30th, 2011

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Sutil welcomes early driver decision

Adrian Sutil has welcomed team boss Vijay Mallya’s decision to bring forward Force India’s 2012 driver decision to the next few weeks. Mallya had originally intended to wait until December to decide which of his team’s three drivers – Sutil, Paul di Resta or Nico Hulkenberg – will be given race contracts for next year. Amid mounting speculation that a decision has been taken and that it will be Hulkenberg and di Resta signed up by the team, Mallya moved to end the rumours by stating in India that he will make his decision imminently

Indian GP to hold minute’s silence

October 30th, 2011

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Indian GP to hold minute’s silence

Formula 1 personnel will hold a minute’s silence in memory of Dan Wheldon and Marco Simoncelli ahead of the Indian Grand Prix. Following discussions between the drivers, the teams and the FIA, the event will take place at the front of the starting grid at 2.45pm local time – 15 minutes before the start of the race. A number of F1 drivers have paid tribute to both Wheldon and Simoncelli, who were killed in racing accidents over the past fortnight, over the Indian GP weekend by wearing special stickers and armbands.