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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.

Superleague cancels Asian races too

October 13th, 2011

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Superleague cancels Asian races too

Superleague Formula organisers have announced the cancellation of the Asian rounds of the series. The news comes less than a month after the series announced it had also cancelled its South American events. Superleague said it could not “reach terms” with Chinese local authorities.

South American rounds cancelled

September 14th, 2011

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South American rounds cancelled

Superleague organisers have announced the cancellation of all the South American rounds scheduled for next month. The Brazilian round will not go ahead after organisers received news from circuit bosses that Goiania will not be ready to host the scheduled race

Navarra test for Superleague

August 18th, 2011

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Navarra test for Superleague

Superleague Formula is set to hold a two-day test at Navarra, Spain, on the final two days of August. The championship has held two rounds so far this season, visiting Assen in June and Zolder in July, but does not have another round planned until Goiania in Brazil at the start of October.

Superleague loses New Zealand race

July 30th, 2011

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Superleague loses New Zealand race

Superleague Formula’s proposed season finale at Taupo has been cancelled because potential event sponsors have withdrawn their backing. The championship had been due to visit New Zealand on December 10-11, although at an unspecified circuit

Vervisch wins Zolder superfinal

July 17th, 2011

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Vervisch wins Zolder superfinal

Frederic Vervisch won a hard-earned €100,000 in a thrilling Superleague Formula Nations Cup superfinal at Zolder in Belgium.

Martin takes second Zolder race

July 17th, 2011

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Martin takes second Zolder race

John Martin of Australia won the reversed-grid second race at Zolder in Belgium, round two of the Superleague Formula Nations Cup.

Dolby wins race one for England

July 17th, 2011

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Craig Dolby won the opening race of round two of the Superleague Formula Nations Cup at Zolder in Belgium this morning, the England driver overcoming series returnee Chris van der Drift of New Zealand in the compulsory pitstops.

Dolby tops Zolder qualifying

July 16th, 2011

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Dolby tops Zolder qualifying

England’s Craig Dolby will start round two of the Superleague Formula Nations Cup from pole position after winning a dramatic rain-affected final against New Zealand’s Chris van der Drift. Rain fell just before and during the final, the climax of Superleague’s unique knock-out qualifying format, for which Dolby chose to run second on the road.

Doornbos switches to Team Japan

July 14th, 2011

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Doornbos switches to Team Japan

Robert Doornbos will switch to the championship-leading Team Japan car in time for this weekend’s Superleague Formula round at Zolder. The 29-year-old Dutchman raced the sister Team Netherlands car at the Assen season-opener, but the Atech Reid squad, which runs both outfits in the series, has elected to put him in the Japan car previously raced by Britain’s Duncan Tappy. “We had some problems at Assen with a coming together, which meant that unfortunately the car had too much damage to finish the race and we were unable to start in race two,” he said.

Aleshin to make Superleague debut

July 7th, 2011

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Aleshin to make Superleague debut

Mikhail Aleshin will become the first Russian to compete in Superleague Formula at Zolder next weekend.

Wissel rejoins Superleague field

June 27th, 2011

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Wissel rejoins Superleague field

German driver Max Wissel will return to Superleague Formula from the Zolder round of the series in mid-July.

Smolensk round postponed

June 22nd, 2011

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Smolensk round postponed

Superleague Formula has postponed its maiden trip to the Smolensk Ring until at least 2012 as the circuit will not be ready in time to host the series’ proposed September round. Superleague was due to be the first international championship to visit the new track on September 3-4, but received notification from senior track officials on Wednesday that this would not be possible.

Van der Drift rejoins Superleague

June 17th, 2011

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Van der Drift rejoins Superleague

Chris van der Drift has confirmed that he will return to Superleague Formula from the next round at Zolder.

Dolby claims Assen super final win

June 5th, 2011

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England’s Craig Dolby won the €100,000 super final in the opening round of Superleague Formula 2011 at Assen on Sunday, passing the Australia entry of John Martin to claim victory. Dolby, starting fourth on the grid, jumped up to second at the start, with Martin leaping into the lead as poleman Duncan Tappy (Japan) and Yelmer Buurman (Netherlands/PSV) made poor getaways.

Tappy beats Martin for Assen win

June 5th, 2011

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Duncan Tappy won his first-ever Superleague Formula race in the second event at Assen on Sunday afternoon. Briton Tappy, driving for Japan in the Nations Cup, outbraked Australia’s John Martin into Turn 1 with four laps to go to snatch the win

Buurman wins wild Assen opener

June 5th, 2011

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Yelmer Buurman won a thrilling opening round of the Superleague Formula Nations Cup on home ground for the Netherlands at Assen. Buurman triumphed after an amazing duel with the other Netherlands-liveried car of Robert Doornbos, who had taken the lead when long-time front man Tristan Gommendy (France/Bordeaux) was forced out with a broken throttle cable.

Gommendy takes pole for France

June 4th, 2011

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Tristan Gommendy of the combined France/Bordeaux team beat New Zealand’s Earl Bamber to the first pole position of the new-look Superleague Formula Nations Cup at Assen in Holland. In the head-to-head shoot-out final, Gommendy was first across the line on a 1m26.313s, but Bamber could only manage a 1m26.745s, which was 0.432 seconds slower.

Superleague reveals full line-up

June 2nd, 2011

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Superleague reveals full line-up

Superleague Formula has announced its full driver line-up for this weekend’s 2011 opener in the Netherlands, with a 14-car field set for Assen.

Vervisch gets Luxembourg seat

June 2nd, 2011

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Vervisch gets Luxembourg seat

Frederic Vervisch will race for Team Luxembourg in Superleague Formula this year. The 24-year-old Belgian has confirmed his deal with the Atech-Reid-run outfit after replacing James Walker at Liverpool for the second half of the 2010 season and winning the Algarve superfinal and again at Ordos. Prior to competing in Superleague last year, Vervisch won German and Asian Formula 3 titles and took five podium finish in the US-based Atlantic Series

Jani gets Anderlecht drive

May 28th, 2011

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Jani gets Anderlecht drive

Neel Jani will drive for Anderlecht in Superleague Formula this year. The 27-year-old Swiss drivers has replaced Davide Rigon at the Azerti-run team that won last year’s championship crown.