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February 2012

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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.

Force India: Young line-up not a gamble

February 3rd, 2012

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Force India: Young line-up not a gamble

Force India’s young driver policy has given it one of the most promising driver line-ups on the grid, according to deputy team principal Bob Fernley. The Silverstone-based team has given regular track time on grand prix weekends to its reserve drivers for the past two years, with both Paul di Resta and Nico Hulkenberg converting those opportunities into race drives for the following season

Ferrari has taken more risks with F2012

February 3rd, 2012

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Ferrari has taken more risks with F2012

Ferrari has confessed to taking more risks with this year’s car than previous cars, after unveiling a fairly aggressive F2012 at Maranello on Friday. Although the most commented-on feature is its stepped nose, the most radical feature is that it is the first car in Formula 1 since Minardi in 2001 to feature front pull-rod suspension. Furthermore, the team has worked hard on its packaging at the sidepods and the rear of the car and try and make the aerodynamic gains it thinks it needs to get ahead of Red Bull Racing.

Ferrari defends ‘ugly’ car design

February 3rd, 2012

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Ferrari defends ‘ugly’ car design

Ferrari chief designer Nikolas Tombazis has defended the look of the new Ferrari amid widespread comments that its stepped nose makes the F2012 ‘ugly’.

Di Resta aims to keep momentum going

February 3rd, 2012

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Di Resta aims to keep momentum going

Paul di Resta believes it is key for Force India to carry its late-season momentum from 2011 into the start of the upcoming season. The Scot was speaking at the launch of the team’s VJM05 at Silverstone on Friday.

Karthikeyan: Indian form key to F1 deal

February 3rd, 2012

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Karthikeyan: Indian form key to F1 deal

Narain Karthikeyan has admitted that his strong performance in the Indian Grand Prix was key to him remaining in Formula 1 with HRT this year.

Green: Most will use ‘platypus’ nose

February 3rd, 2012

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Green: Most will use ‘platypus’ nose

Force India technical director Andrew Green expects most teams to join Force India, Ferrari and Caterham in opting for the ‘platypus’ nose design. The new Force India VJM05, which was unveiled at Silverstone this morning, featured the distinctive shelf where the nose joins the higher front section of the monocoque. Despite the McLaren MP4-27, launched on Wednesday, not featuring the drop nose thanks to a lower chassis front, Green thinks most will follow the design concept that his team has chosen.

Alonso ‘sure’ Ferrari will be strong

February 3rd, 2012

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Fernando Alonso is sure Ferrari will be strong during the 2012 season as the Maranello squad unveiled its 2012 car on Friday. Alonso won just one race in the 2011 season in a disappointing year for the Italian team, which is aiming to return to championship-winning ways this year

Force India unveils the VJM05

February 3rd, 2012

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Force India unveils the VJM05

Force India has unveiled its new car for the 2012 season, dubbed the VJM05, at Silverstone. It is the team’s earliest car launch since Force India was created in 2008 when Vijay Mallya bought the Spyker team. In recent years Force India has not had its new machine ready for the first test

Ferrari boss upbeat on title chances

February 3rd, 2012

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Ferrari boss upbeat on title chances

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo is confident his team has all it needs to win the world championship once again. After unveiling its aggressive-looking F2012 at Maranello on Friday, di Montezemolo said in a video message that he was full of confidence that the efforts put in by his staff would be rewarded

Ferrari expects to win from the start

February 3rd, 2012

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Ferrari expects to win from the start

Ferrari expects its 2012 Formula 1 car to be winning races from the start of the new season, the team revealed at the launch of its F2012 racer on Friday. Team boss Stefano Domenicali said that he believes the changes made behind the scenes at Maranello should yield instant results, following a tough 2011 season for Ferrari.

Ferrari launches its 2012 F1 car

February 3rd, 2012

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Ferrari launches its 2012 F1 car

Ferrari unveiled the 2012 car on Friday morning that it hopes will return it to world championship-winning glory.

Karthikeyan lands second HRT seat

February 3rd, 2012

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Karthikeyan lands second HRT seat

Narain Karthikeyan will fill the final racing seat of the 2012 season after he was confirmed at HRT on Friday morning.

Hamilton eager to sort out future

February 2nd, 2012

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Hamilton eager to sort out future

Lewis Hamilton is eager to sort out his future with McLaren early in the 2012 campaign so that speculation about his plans does not overshadow what he hopes is a world championship winning campaign. The Briton is out of contract at the end of this year and, while it is likely he will remain at McLaren, there have been frequent rumours about a potential switch to Red Bull Racing ever since he held a secret meeting with Christian Horner at last year’s Canadian Grand Prix.

Ferrari cancels new car launch event

February 2nd, 2012

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Ferrari cancels new car launch event

Ferrari has cancelled the launch ceremony of its 2012 Formula 1 car because of the poor weather conditions in Maranello. As reported yesterday, the harsh wintry conditions had left all of the Maranello area covered in snow.

Snow may hinder first Ferrari run

February 1st, 2012

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Snow may hinder first Ferrari run

Ferrari is likely to be forced to cancel a planned shakedown of its new car at Fiorano later this week because of snow at Maranello.

New McLaren a ‘complete rework’

February 1st, 2012

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New McLaren a ‘complete rework’

McLaren says its new MP4-27 is a ‘complete rework’ of last year’s car – despite its outward appearance pointing to it being an evolution of its 2011 contender.

Michael: McLaren synergy one of a kind

February 1st, 2012

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Michael: McLaren synergy one of a kind

Sam Michael believes McLaren’s strength in depth is one of the keys to having been so successful in Formula 1 over the years. Michael, a former technical director at Williams, left the British squad at the end of last year to join McLaren as sporting director

McLaren: No plans to build own engine

February 1st, 2012

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McLaren: No plans to build own engine

McLaren has no plans to develop its own Formula 1 engine or switch from Mercedes-Benz powerplants, according to team principal Martin Whitmarsh.

McLaren says it has not been cautious

February 1st, 2012

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McLaren says it has not been cautious

McLaren believes it has not taken a cautious approach to its new MP4-27 over the winter, despite the problems caused by the radical elements it tried in pre-season testing last year. Team principal Martin Whitmarsh said at the launch of the new car that McLaren is not expecting a repeat of last year’s poor pre-season. But he was keen to point out that the team had not opted for a careful approach to its development over the winter.

Button hopes car is fast from the start

February 1st, 2012

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Button hopes car is fast from the start

Jenson Button is hoping the new McLaren MP4-27 will hit the ground running and allow the team to enjoy a stronger build-up to the season than in 2011. The Woking team launched its 2012 car on Wednesday hoping it will allow it to stop Red Bull Racing’s run of titles after a dominant 2011 campaign for the team and Sebastian Vettel. McLaren endured a troubled pre-season last year, with several problems hindering its preparations ahead of the first race.