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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.

Bahar sure of Raikkonen’s motivation

December 9th, 2011

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Bahar sure of Raikkonen’s motivation

Group Lotus CEO Dany Bahar says the fact that Kimi Raikkonen is willing to take on the challenge of returning to Formula 1 after a two-year absence is sufficient proof of his motivation. After two seasons away in the World Rally Championship, 2007 world champion Raikkonen will be back in the F1 field next year with Renault, which will by then be running under the Lotus title.

Red Bull set for Milton Keynes parade

December 9th, 2011

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Red Bull set for Milton Keynes parade

Red Bull Racing will take to the streets of its Milton Keynes hometown this weekend to celebrate its hugely successful 2011 Formula 1 season.

Grosjean ready to take on Raikkonen

December 9th, 2011

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Grosjean ready to take on Raikkonen

Romain Grosjean says he is unfazed about the prospect of going up against Kimi Raikkonen at Renault next year – and actually thinks it is him who will have the edge in understanding Pirelli’s Formula 1 tyres. The Frenchman was confirmed on Friday as Renault’s second driver for 2012, with the team having announced immediately after the Brazilian Grand Prix that Raikkonen would be joining it.

Grosjean gets second Renault seat

December 9th, 2011

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Grosjean gets second Renault seat

Romain Grosjean will make a Formula 1 comeback next season after Renault opted to hand the Frenchman a seat alongside Kimi Raikkonen in 2012. Following intense speculation over the past couple of weeks about the second seat at Renault, the Enstone-based outfit announced early on Friday that Grosjean will replace Vitaly Petrov

Mercedes close to 2014 engine test

December 8th, 2011

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Mercedes close to 2014 engine test

Mercedes-Benz is set to run its 2014 turbocharged Formula 1 engine on a dyno test bed imminently, AUTOSPORT has learned, as technical chiefs played down concerns the new power units will not sound great.

Alonso certain of success at Ferrari

December 8th, 2011

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Alonso certain of success at Ferrari

Fernando Alonso has no doubts that he and Ferrari will win the title “sooner rather than later”, despite having seen Red Bull Racing walk away with both championships since he has joined the Maranello outfit. The Spaniard came close to capturing the crown in 2010, with only a costly strategic error in the final round in Abu Dhabi leaving the door open for Sebastian Vettel to triumph. Last year, Ferrari failed to fully get on top of its blown diffuser development and, suffering from windtunnel calibration issues early on, the outfit only took one victory when Alonso triumphed in the British Grand Prix.

Colleagues pay tribute to Moody

December 8th, 2011

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Former colleagues from both Formula 1 and MotoGP gathered to pay tribute to Charlie Moody in a memorial service on Tuesday. Moody, who passed away last month, first joined F1 as a mechanic with Walter Wolf’s team in 1977, staying on through the Fittipaldi era and then moving with driver Keke Rosberg to Williams, where Rosberg won the 1982 title. Moody was also responsible for strapping Ayrton Senna into an F1 car for the first time when the Brazilian legend had his maiden test with Williams at Donington Park in 1983

Lotus confirms Iley’s appointment

December 8th, 2011

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Lotus confirms Iley’s appointment

Team Lotus finally confirmed on Thursday that leading aerodynamicist John Iley is to join the Hingham-based outfit as its performance director next year. Iley, who has most recently been with McLaren, has worked with Lotus’s technical chief Mike Gascoyne earlier in his career at both Jordan and Renault

Watkins retires from FIA Institute role

December 8th, 2011

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Watkins retires from FIA Institute role

Professor Sid Watkins has retired from his role as president of the FIA Institute.

Grosjean prepared to give up on F1

December 8th, 2011

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Grosjean prepared to give up on F1

Romain Grosjean says he is ready to give up on his ambitions of getting back into Formula 1 if he fails to land a race seat for 2012.

Sauber also leaves FOTA

December 7th, 2011

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Sauber also leaves FOTA

Sauber has become the latest team to quit the Formula One Teams’ Association (FOTA), AUTOSPORT can reveal, as doubts also emerge about Scuderia Toro Rosso’s position in the body. In the wake of Ferrari and Red Bull Racing’s decision to withdraw from the team’s organisation last week, sources have revealed that Sauber also notified FOTA members several days ago that it too was leaving.

Rosberg sure Mercedes can win in 2012

December 7th, 2011

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Rosberg sure Mercedes can win in 2012

Nico Rosberg says his belief that Mercedes can not only improve but crucially challenge for race wins was a key factor in his decision to stay with the team. Rosberg took three podiums in his first year with Mercedes in 2010, but this season counted fifth place as his best finish as the outfit struggled to cope with the pace and development of Red Bull, McLaren and Ferrari.

Brundle: Pressure on Sky to perform

December 7th, 2011

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Brundle: Pressure on Sky to perform

Martin Brundle says Sky’s reputation, and the fact it will still be going head-to-head with the BBC for ten grands prix next season, puts pressure on the broadcaster to perform from the very outset of its Formula 1 coverage in 2012. Brundle, who was official announced as part of Sky’s new coverage team , admitted it had been a big decision to leave the BBC but said the promise of commentating live for every race had proved too hard to resist. “We’re going to be head to head with BBC F1, which I know from personal experience is a fantastic group of people making a great show,” Brundle told AUTOSPORT in an exclusive interview.

Austin construction set to go ahead

December 7th, 2011

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Austin construction set to go ahead

Circuit of the Americas chiefs have announced construction of the track will resume immediately after saying they have reached an agreement with F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone. The event, scheduled to host the penultimate round of the 2012 championship, was in doubt after construction was stopped because of problems with the contracts

FIA announces new sporting rules

December 7th, 2011

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FIA announces new sporting rules

The FIA’s World Motor Sport Council has announced several changes to the sporting rules for the 2012 Formula 1 season. From next year, all cars will have to pass all the mandatory crash tests in order to be able to take part in winter testing.

FIA confirms unchanged 2012 calendar

December 7th, 2011

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FIA confirms unchanged 2012 calendar

Formula 1′s ruling body, the FIA, has confirmed the 2012 calendar, with no changes compared to the 20-race version unveiled in August. The calendar includes the race in Austin, Texas, despite doubts about the construction of the circuit.

Sky confirms F1 coverage line-up

December 7th, 2011

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Sky confirms F1 coverage line-up

Sky has officially confirmed that former BBC Radio 5 commentary duo David Croft and Anthony Davidson are to join its Formula 1 coverage next year, alongside Martin Brundle.

Booth confident of step forward in 2012

December 6th, 2011

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Booth confident of step forward in 2012

Virgin Racing team principal John Booth is hopeful that his outfit will finally be able to make a move up the grid in 2012, on the back of the technical overhaul it undertook this year. As well as signing a partnership deal with McLaren, which includes use of the team’s wind tunnel and simulator facilities, the outfit is now being guided by experienced engineer Pat Symonds. Speaking at a press conference in Paris on Tuesday, Booth said that the involvement of Symonds and McLaren were key to allowing him to believe that the outfit could make good gains in 2012.

Pic: Test limit makes F1 debut tough

December 6th, 2011

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Pic: Test limit makes F1 debut tough

Virgin Racing’s new recruit Charles Pic has admitted he faces a tough challenge to get himself prepared for Formula 1 before the first race of 2012, with just six days of testing pencilled in for him prior to his grand prix debut. The Frenchman had his first outing in an F1 car during the recent young driver test at Abu Dhabi and, with only 12 days of running available for his team before Melbourne, he will have to split the time equally with team-mate Timo Glock.

Ricciardo confirms Caterham chance

December 6th, 2011

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Ricciardo confirms Caterham chance

Daniel Ricciardo has fuelled speculation he could race for Caterham next year, after admitting it was unlikely he would be joining Scuderia Toro Rosso’s line-up.