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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.

Gronholm confirms racing return

May 16th, 2012

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Gronholm confirms racing return

Two-time World Rally Champion Marcus Gronholm has confirmed he will return to motorsport and contest a full programme of Global Rallycross events in America this year. Gronholm will form part of the Best Buy Team along with British driver David Binks.

WRC tweaks Rally Catalunya stages

May 16th, 2012

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WRC tweaks Rally Catalunya stages

The final round of this year’s World Rally Championship – the Catalunya Rally – will include a stage through the centre of host town Salou. The Spanish event, which shifts from its October date to November 8-11, will retain its mixed surface format, with the opening day running the gravel content, including a completely new stage. The Salou-based event will include 251 competitive miles, virtually identical to last season

Kaltenborn earns Sauber Group stake

May 16th, 2012

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Kaltenborn earns Sauber Group stake

Peter Sauber has announced he is transferring a third of the stake in the Sauber Group to CEO Monisha Kaltenborn. Sauber, the founder, team principal and president of the board, will retain the other two thirds. India-born Kaltenborn, 41, was appointed CEO of the Swiss squad in 2010, following BMW’s exit from Formula 1

Mateschitz against F1 tyre ‘lottery’

May 16th, 2012

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Mateschitz against F1 tyre ‘lottery’

Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz believes Formula 1′s thrilling start the season may be great news for fans, but he feels it has turned the sport into a lottery for teams. Five different drivers from five different teams have won the first five races of the season in one of the most open championship starts in the sport in recent times. While Mateschitz acknowledges the unpredictability is great for the fans, he feels this year’s tyres are making the racing a lottery, as he thinks no team has managed to understand how they work so far.

Hamilton ‘deserves’ Monaco win

May 16th, 2012

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Hamilton ‘deserves’ Monaco win

McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh believes winning the Monaco Grand Prix would be a deserved reward for Lewis Hamilton. The British driver has started from pole position twice this year, and he would have been first on the grid in Spain had he not being sent to the back of the grid for not having enough fuel onboard at the end of qualifying.

Lola Cars enters administration

May 16th, 2012

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Lola Cars enters administration

Lola Cars has announced that it is going into financial administration as it continues to search for possible investors. The group, which was formed in 1958, said the latest economic downturn has caused a serious cash-flow problem that had forced it into making the decision.

Rossi aiming for further step at Le Mans

May 16th, 2012

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Rossi aiming for further step at Le Mans

Valentino Rossi says the top six, rather than a repeat of his 2011 podium, will be Ducati’s main target at MotoGP’s forthcoming French Grand Prix. The Italian scored his only rostrum of the season at the Le Mans circuit last year, but he insists this year’s focus is on making incremental progress – and therefore seeking only to better his seventh-place finish at Estoril. “Le Mans is another place where the weather can be challenging, particularly at this time of year, but it’s also the track where I had my best result with the Ducati last year,” Rossi said.

Busch fined for pit road incident

May 16th, 2012

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Busch fined for pit road incident

Kurt Busch has been fined by NASCAR for a pit road incident last weekend following the conclusion of Saturday’s Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington Raceway. The 2004 champion hit the back of Ryan Newman’s Stewart Haas Chevy on pit road and crew members from his team and Newman’s were later involved in a scuffle. Busch had been a top-ten contender before a late spin, while Newman also spun behind him trying to avoid hitting the #51 car of Busch, but their incidents seemed unrelated to the post-race issue, which was under investigation from NASCAR

Injured Williams man returns home

May 16th, 2012

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Injured Williams man returns home

The Williams mechanic badly burned in the fire in the team’s pits after the Spanish Grand Prix has returned back to Britain to receive further medical care.

Andretti tops fourth day at Indy

May 16th, 2012

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Andretti tops fourth day at Indy

Marco Andretti is convinced that the Andretti Autosport team is in good shape for next weekend’s Indy 500 after topping the fourth day of practice at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Andretti’s 40.2367s lap was clocked at 223.676mph, putting him just ahead of Penske’s Helio Castroneves (222.025mph) and his Andretti team-mate James Hinchcliffe (221.864mph), and he said that he was delighted with how his car was developing

Double R joins Euro Series for Brands

May 15th, 2012

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Double R joins Euro Series for Brands

Double R Racing will make its F3 Euro Series debut at Brands Hatch this weekend with a pair of cars for regular British championship drivers Geoff Uhrhane and Fahmi Ilyas. Anthony Hieatt’s team is using the event, plus the following round at Spielberg, to allow its drivers to gain experience of the Hankook rubber that will be used at the Norisring event in July, when both the British championship and Euro Series run together for the first time. “We’ve never done a European championship round before so we’re really looking forward to giving Geoff and Fahmi some extra time in the car, especially as it’s our home track,” said Hieatt, “The team always likes racing at Brands and the mileage will be good for both drivers, their deals were done very late so an extra race meeting can only be good for them

Ekstrom: Brands form critical for Audi

May 15th, 2012

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Ekstrom: Brands form critical for Audi

Mattias Ekstrom believes that Audi must raise its game at Brands Hatch this weekend if he is to avoid losing touch with Mercedes drivers Gary Paffett and Jamie Green in the championship.

Edwards to make Le Mans bow

May 15th, 2012

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Edwards to make Le Mans bow

Porsche Supercup race winner Sean Edwards will emulate his father Guy by racing in the Le Mans 24 Hours this year. Edwards Jr, who has four Supercup wins to his name, will make his debut in the French enduro on June 16/17 with ProSpeed Competition. The 25-year-old will share the Belgian team’s GTE Am class Porsche 911 GT3-RSR with fellow Le Mans debutant Bret Curtis and Saudi Abdulaziz Al Faisal, who contested last year’s 24 Hours in a Porsche

Neuville to compete in New Zealand

May 15th, 2012

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Neuville to compete in New Zealand

Citroen protege Thierry Neuville has moved a step closer to contesting the full World Rally Championship schedule after Nasser Al-Attiyah handed the Belgian his Qatar Citroen for Rally New Zealand. Neuville was initially confirmed for nine events in the Citroen Junior entry, with further rallies dependent on his performance

Lotus certain victory is imminent

May 15th, 2012

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Lotus certain victory is imminent

Lotus boss Eric Boullier says he is not frustrated by the failure of his team to win the Spanish Grand Prix, because he thinks a victory is just around the corner. Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean had gone in to Sunday’s race as many people’s favourites for the win on the back of impressive long-run form in practice. However, neither was able to match the pace of runaway leaders Pastor Maldonado and Fernando Alonso in the opening stages, and Raikkonen’s late-race charge came too late to allow him to finish better than third.

Stoner: Honda still needs chatter fix

May 15th, 2012

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Stoner: Honda still needs chatter fix

Casey Stoner says Honda still needs to smooth out the chatter issues that threatened to upset his bid for victory in MotoGP’s previous race at Estoril.

Maldonado ‘made critics shut up’

May 15th, 2012

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Maldonado ‘made critics shut up’

Pastor Maldonado did more than enough with his victory at the Spanish Grand Prix to be able to tell his critics to ‘shut up’, says Williams board member Toto Wolff. The Venezuelan driver delivered a stunning performance at Barcelona to produce the maiden victory of his Formula 1 career, and prove that his value to the team is more than just the millions of pounds of sponsorship he brings

Williams: Maldonado always real deal

May 15th, 2012

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Williams: Maldonado always real deal

Frank Williams says Pastor Maldonado is worthy of a place at his team even without the considerable backing he brings, judging by his performance at the Spanish Grand Prix. Maldonado delivered a surprise victory at Barcelona on Sunday, as he withstood race-long pressure from Fernando Alonso to end Williams’ eight-year victory drought

Spies aims for Le Mans resurgence

May 15th, 2012

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Spies aims for Le Mans resurgence

Ben Spies says Le Mans will be another chance to rebuild his confidence and improve his performance after a torrid start to his 2012 MotoGP campaign. The Texan has struggled for pace since the championship began, finishing a distant 11th in both Qatar and Spain – races in which his Yamaha stable-mate Jorge Lorenzo finished first and second respectively.

Button to try DTM taxi at Brands Hatch

May 15th, 2012

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Button to try DTM taxi at Brands Hatch

McLaren Formula 1 driver Jenson Button will try out the passenger version of Mercedes’ latest DTM car when the series visits Brands Hatch this weekend. Button will receive instruction from Mercedes’ DTM driver and McLaren F1 reserve Gary Paffett before giving his compatriot a passenger ride around the Kent circuit