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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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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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Vainio ends Estoril test quickest
February 22nd, 2012
Aaro Vainio set the pace on the second and final day of GP3 testing at Estoril to leave the Portuguese circuit with the fastest time of all.
Petrov not setting targets for himself
February 22nd, 2012
Vitaly Petrov sees no point in setting targets for himself and Caterham this year – and instead thinks the most important thing right now is simply in getting to understand the team better. Speaking after his first day of running with the Hingham-based outfit at Barcelona in Spain on Wednesday, Petrov sees plenty of room for improvement in how he and the team work together. “At the moment I don’t want to talk about high levels, or what team we will pass – what is more important in this moment is to understand what we want,” he said
Bottas ready to deliver for Williams
February 22nd, 2012
Valtteri Bottas feels ready to make a big contribution to the Williams team’s race weekends this year, after completing his single day of pre-season testing at Barcelona on Wednesday. The 22-year-old is scheduled to participate in 15 morning practice sessions in 2012, starting off at the Malaysian Grand Prix.
Perez: Sauber must build on promise
February 22nd, 2012
Sergio Perez says Sauber has good reason to optimistic for the opening races of 2012 after labelling the new C31 as a good starting point to work from this season. But he insisted that the Swiss team must keep working hard to develop the car right up to the first race in Melbourne to capitalise on it. The Mexican, who impressed on his debut at Melbourne nearly a year ago by finishing seventh on the road, was second fastest overall after two days of testing at Barcelona and ended Wednesday just 0.040s slower than the best time – set by Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg
Hamilton confident McLaren will be fast
February 22nd, 2012
Lewis Hamilton is optimistic McLaren has the pace to fight at the front in the season-opening Australian Grand Prix when the season kicks off next month. Hamilton completed his week’s work at Barcelona today, after covering 120 laps on his way to the sixth fastest time of the day. The McLaren driver admitted the feeling this year was completely different to the 2011 pre-season, when the team struggled with its car.
Alonso still unsure on Ferrari pace
February 22nd, 2012
Fernando Alonso has conceded that Ferrari may not be heading into the new season with the quickest car – but he still thinks it is too early to judge where the F2012 stands in the pecking order right now. While its main title rivals are already at the stage in their testing programmes where they are conducting race simulation runs, Ferrari is still compiling aerodynamic data and running with a variety of sensors. Alonso is not being too downbeat about the situation though – and thinks it more important that Ferrari keeps trying to get a better understanding of where it can improve the F2012
Blomqvist joins McLaren’s programme
February 22nd, 2012
British driver Tom Blomqvist has joined McLaren’s Driver Development Programme, the British squad said on Wednesday.
Hulkenberg stays on top at Barcelona
February 22nd, 2012
Nico Hulkenberg’s morning efforts were enough to ensure Force India topped the second day of pre-season testing. With the sun at its zenith in the afternoon, teams opted to pursue long-run programmes rather than chase outright times, and there was therefore little change to the morning’s order
Force India says F1 costs still too high
February 22nd, 2012
Formula 1 must do much more to bring down costs in the future, says Force India’s deputy team principal Robert Fernley, if the sport is to remain sustainable.
Campos Racing confirms 2012 line-up
February 22nd, 2012
Campos Racing has signed Max Snegirev and Giuseppe Cipriani to race in the 2012 Auto GP World Series. Russian Snegirev and Italian Cipriani will join Argentinean Facu Regalia, who had already been announced earlier this year. Snegirev, 24, tested for the team at Estoril this week and moves to Auto GP from Formula 2
Hulkenberg sets early Barcelona pace
February 22nd, 2012
Nico Hulkenberg put Force India on top of the timesheets on the second morning of pre-season testing at Barcelona, setting the fastest time of the week so far at the Catalan circuit. Tyre compounds proved decisive as the conditions improved on a morning also notable for the absence of Lotus – the team having elected to abandon the test after discovering chassis problems on the opening day . Hulkenberg had been near the front for the majority of the session, but he moved well clear in the final 30 minutes when he switched to Pirelli’s super soft compound and clocked a 1m22.608s
Jackson expects to fight for title
February 22nd, 2012
British Touring Car race winner Mat Jackson believes he can fight for the 2012 title after being confirmed at Motorbase Performance for a third season.
Ricciardo upbeat about new Toro Rosso
February 22nd, 2012
Daniel Ricciardo is confident Scuderia Toro Rosso has produced a car that will enable it to move up the order in 2012. After some positive early indications from the new STR7 during the first tests at Jerez and Barcelona, Ricciardo feels that the team can achieve its ambition of finishing in the top seven teams this year
New Honda gets maiden test run
February 22nd, 2012
Honda’s new Civic British Touring Car hit the track for the first time at Brands Hatch on Tuesday. Defending champion Matt Neal, who will again be partnered at the Team Dynamics-run Honda Racing squad by Gordon Shedden this year, completed around 50 laps of the Indy circuit in the NGTC-spec machine, which is, like its predecessor, powered by a Neil Brown-prepared turbo engine. Team principal Steve Neal told AUTOSPORT: “It was more of a shakedown than a proper test.
Brawn: Teams will regret FOTA split
February 22nd, 2012
Ross Brawn believes the decision by four of his rivals to quit the Formula One Teams’ Association (FOTA) was short-sighted, and fears all the sport’s competitors may live to regret it. With Ferrari, Red Bull Racing, Sauber and Scuderia Toro Rosso all having quit FOTA in the wake of ongoing wrangling over a Resource Restriction Agreement, there have been questions raised about the future of the organisation. However, the remaining members of FOTA are wholly committed to it, and Brawn says he hopes that circumstances do not play out – such as in imminent talks over a new Concorde Agreement – where teams wish they had stuck together.
Smith joins Motorbase line-up
February 22nd, 2012
British Touring Car squad Motorbase Performance has signed Aron Smith to complete its three-car line-up for this season. Smith, who made his BTCC debut with Triple Eight Engineering at Knockhill last year, will drive alongside Motorbase regulars Mat Jackson and Liam Griffin.