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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.

Sekiguchi replaces Ho for Macau GP

November 16th, 2011

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Sekiguchi replaces Ho for Macau GP

Japanese Formula 3 champion Yuhi Sekiguchi is a late addition to the Macau Grand Prix entry list, after being drafted in to replace the injured Michael Ho. Sekiguchi had not originally planned to take part in the end-of-season blue riband event, but was called up by the Mucke Motorsport squad when Ho injured his wrist while training in the gym. His entry to Macau means that the champions from all the major F3 categories are competing for glory at this weekend’s race

Nasr out to end Carlin’s Macau drought

November 16th, 2011

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Nasr out to end Carlin’s Macau drought

British Formula 3 champion Felipe Nasr has high hopes that his Carlin team can end its decade-long victory drought in this weekend’s Macau Grand Prix. Carlin has not triumphed in the blue-riband F3 event since Takuma Sato delivered a memorable triumph back in 2001, shortly before he made the move into F1. But on the back of a dominant season in British F3, which saw the team take the top three positions overall, Nasr thinks that Carlin is ready to get firmly in the victory mix this weekend.

Asmer aims to revive career in Macau

November 16th, 2011

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Asmer aims to revive career in Macau

Former BMW Sauber test driver Marko Asmer is hoping that a strong showing in the Macau Grand Prix will help resurrect his career, after spending almost three years on the sidelines.

Merhi: Talent more valuable than cash

November 16th, 2011

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Merhi: Talent more valuable than cash

Roberto Merhi is hoping to prove that talent is still more valuable than money in motor racing by delivering victory in this weekend’s Macau F3 Grand Prix, after hitting out at the number of pay drivers that were signed up for this week’s rookie Formula 1 test. The Spaniard has delivered a sensational campaign this year – capturing the F3 Euro Series title and also securing the FIA F3 International Trophy ahead of the finale in Macau this weekend. But although focused on gunning for victory in Macau, he has expressed his frustration that there was no opportunity to join this week’s F1 rookie test because he does not have big-money sponsors behind him

Pirelli prize goes to Calado

November 13th, 2011

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Pirelli prize goes to Calado

James Calado, who claimed victory in the Abu Dhabi sprint race on his GP2 debut, has been presented with a cheque for 15,000 euros by Pirelli for winning the tyre manufacturer’s GP3 Award. Pirelli, which supplies tyres for both series, put up a the prize for the best GP3 graduate competing in this weekend’s non-championship GP2 event.

Calado wins on first GP2 weekend

November 13th, 2011

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Calado wins on first GP2 weekend

James Calado crowned his debut weekend in GP2 with victory for ART in the Abu Dhabi sprint race. This year’s GP3 runner-up started from reversed grid pole position for the second race of the non-championship event after finishing eighth in yesterday’s feature race, and kept the lead at the start, opening a 1.1 second gap over Antonio Felix da Costa (Ocean) on the first lap.

Trummer sent to back of grid

November 12th, 2011

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Trummer sent to back of grid

Simon Trummer will start the second Yas Marina GP2 race from the back of the grid after being blamed for a collision during Saturday’s opener. The Arden driver, who was making his first race appearance in a GP2 car, was battling with the Addax car of Jake Rosenzweig for 17th place, but collided with the American in an incident that put both out. While Trummer was set to start race two from 23rd, stewards decided that he had caused an avoidable collision and gave him a 10-place penalty, dropping him to 26th and last.

Leimer dominates first GP2 race

November 12th, 2011

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Leimer dominates first GP2 race

Fabio Leimer claimed his maiden GP2 feature race victory with a dominant drive in Abu Dhabi. The Swiss driver, who switched from Rapax to Racing Engineering for this weekend, converted pole position into the lead at the start, establishing an advantage of almost two seconds by the end of the first lap.

Leimer takes Abu Dhabi GP2 pole

November 11th, 2011

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Leimer takes Abu Dhabi GP2 pole

Fabio Leimer claimed his first GP2 pole position in qualifying for this weekend’s non-championship event in Abu Dhabi.

Gutierrez leads GP2 practice

November 11th, 2011

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Pre-race favourite Esteban Gutierrez dominated free practice for this weekend’s non-championship GP2 event in Abu Dhabi. The ART driver went to the top of the times with 20 minutes left of the session, with a lap that then put him 1.5 seconds clear of the field. This displaced GP2 rookie Tom Dillmann, driving for iSport, from the top of the leaderboard after the Frenchman set the pace during the early running.

Ocean signs Marroc for Yas Marina

November 10th, 2011

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Ocean signs Marroc for Yas Marina

Ocean has completed its line-up for this weekend’s non-championship GP2 races at Yas Marina by signing sportscar racer Nicolas Marroc to partner Antonio Felix da Costa. Frenchman Marroc, 24, has competed in a variety of sportscar series this year, becoming a class winner in the Formula Le Mans category of the Le Mans Series on his way to fifth in the championship, and winning twice in the International GT Open in a JMB Ferrari. Despite admitting that his future lies away from single-seaters, Marroc believes this weekend’s event will be beneficial to him in the long-term

Full points for reversed-grid races

November 8th, 2011

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Full points for reversed-grid races

Full points will be awarded for reversed grid races in British Formula 3 next year. Championship organisers announced on Tuesday that the races, which awarded only 10 points to the winner, will now count for 20, just like the two longer races on the bill.

Arden names Yas Marina drivers

November 8th, 2011

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Arden names Yas Marina drivers

Josef Kral and Simon Trummer will form Arden’s line-up for this weekend’s non-championship GP2 event at Yas Marina. Czech driver Kral raced for Arden in the main series this year, finishing 15th in the championship and scoring a best result of second in the Monaco sprint race. He believes a strong run is on the cards at the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix support event.

Clos moves to Rapax for Abu Dhabi

November 5th, 2011

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Clos moves to Rapax for Abu Dhabi

Experienced GP2 driver Dani Clos and Formula 2 convert Mihai Marinescu will drive for Rapax in the non-championship Abu Dhabi races.

Charouz joins Carlin for Abu Dhabi

November 4th, 2011

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Charouz joins Carlin for Abu Dhabi

Jan Charouz will make his GP2 racing debut with Carlin in the non-championship Abu Dhabi event next weekend. The 24-year-old Czech driver has competed in Formula Renault 3.5 for the past two seasons, and is also part of the Renault Formula 1 team’s young driver programme.

Palmer joins Addax for Yas Marina

November 3rd, 2011

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Palmer joins Addax for Yas Marina

Jolyon Palmer will race for GP2 champion team Addax at next weekend’s non-championship event at Yas Marina.

Sainz joins Carlin’s British F3 line-up

November 3rd, 2011

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Sainz joins Carlin’s British F3 line-up

Carlos Sainz Jr will race with the Carlin team in the 2012 British Formula 3 championship. Sainz, the son of two-time world rally champion Carlos Sr, finished second overall in the 2011 Formula Renault Eurocup, and competed in the F3 Euro Series finale at Hockenheim with Signature recently.

Coletti completes Coloni line-up

November 3rd, 2011

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Coletti completes Coloni line-up

Coloni has completed its line-up for the non-championship GP2 event at Yas Marina next weekend by signing Stefano Coletti to partner Kevin Ceccon. The 22-year-old Monegasque confirmed on Wednesday that he will be making his Formula 1 test debut with Toro Rosso at the circuit, and will now take part in the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix support event that immediately precedes it.

Melker, Haryanto join DAMS

November 2nd, 2011

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Melker, Haryanto join DAMS

DAMS will run Nigel Melker and Rio Haryanto at next weekend’s non-championship GP2 event at Yas Marina. The French squad, which ran Romain Grosjean to the drivers’ crown this year, has picked Dutchman Melker and Indonesian Haryanto following their testing performances in GP2 machinery at Jerez and Barcelona recently.

Richelmi, Leal join Trident

November 2nd, 2011

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Richelmi, Leal join Trident

Stephane Richelmi and Julian Leal will be Trident Racing’s drivers for the non-championship GP2 event at Yas Marina next weekend. The pair have driven for the Italian squad during the recent series tests at Jerez and Barcelona, and have now signed race deals. Colombian driver Leal, 21, has a year of GP2 experience under his belt, having raced for Rapax this year