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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.

Mateschitz: Vettel ‘stronger than ever’

January 20th, 2012

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Mateschitz: Vettel ‘stronger than ever’

Sebastian Vettel’s rivals have been warned that the double Formula 1 world champion is better prepared for the forthcoming season than he has ever been before. Although Vettel dominated the 2011 campaign, winning 11 races en route to his second title, the Red Bull Racing driver is showing no signs of taking things for granted in his efforts to grab another crown. Red Bull owner Dietrich Mateschitz told Gazzetta dello Sport on Friday that he believed Vettel was heading into the 2012 season in his best shape ever

Pirelli seeking test car for 2013 tyres

January 20th, 2012

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Pirelli seeking test car for 2013 tyres

Pirelli’s plans for developing its 2013 Formula 1 tyres are in a state of flux as it is currently without a suitable test car. The Italian company has been in talks with the teams over a suitable machine for its test programme to succeed the 2009 Toyota TF109 that it has previously used.

New Toro Rosso car will be at first test

January 20th, 2012

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New Toro Rosso car will be at first test

Scuderia Toro Rosso has confirmed its new car will be ready for the opening pre-season test at Jerez next month, after passing all the mandatory crash tests this week. For 2012, all Formula 1 teams must complete the FIA crash tests before they are allowed to run their cars on track.

Red Bull won’t hurry reactive ride

January 20th, 2012

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Red Bull won’t hurry reactive ride

Red Bull Racing insists that there is no rush for it to copy the reactive ride system pioneered by Lotus – even though some rival outfits are pushing on with developing their own concepts.

Caterham to unveil car in F1 Racing

January 19th, 2012

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Caterham will unveil its new Formula 1 car on the cover of AUTOSPORT’s sister publication F1 Racing on January 26. The Hingham-based outfit’s challenger will remain in the green and yellow colours that the outfit used when it raced under the Team Lotus name. The new car will run for the first time at the opening pre-season test that takes place in Jerez from February 7.

Lauda: Raikkonen needs a strong car

January 19th, 2012

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Lauda: Raikkonen needs a strong car

Kimi Raikkonen will only return to his very best in Formula 1 this year if Lotus is able to provide him with an exceptional car. That is the view of former world champion Niki Lauda, who welcomes the return of the 2007 title winner to F1 but thinks his potential will be very dependent on what machinery he is driving

Austin track set for August completion

January 19th, 2012

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Austin track set for August completion

Austin’s new Formula 1 track is on course to be completed in the middle of August, AUTOSPORT can reveal, with construction efforts now fully back on course at the United States venue. Although there was uncertainty about the future of the race last year amid a dispute over the contract – with work at the circuit being halted for several weeks – a big push by Austin’s organisers ensured it remained on the final 2012 calendar issued by the FIA’s World Motor Sport Council in early December. With its deal secure, construction resumed at the track shortly afterwards and track chiefs have confirmed that the recent delays will not have any negative effect on its November 18 event taking place

Trulli shrugs off Petrov speculation

January 19th, 2012

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Trulli shrugs off Petrov speculation

Jarno Trulli says he knows nothing of the speculation linking Vitaly Petrov with his seat at the Caterham team, and insists he has a contract with the squad. Rumours about Petrov joining the team have intensified over recent days, the Russian still seeking a race seat after Renault – now Lotus – signed Kimi Raikkonen and Romain Grosjean for 2012. There are suggestions that Petrov is in advanced talks with the team about a seat for the upcoming season

Caterham confirms move to Leafield

January 18th, 2012

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Caterham confirms move to Leafield

The Caterham team has announced that it is planning to move from its current base in Hingham, Norfolk to different facilities in Leafield. Caterham aims to relocate to the Leafield Technical Centre, which has been associated with motorsport for several years after it was sold to Tom Walkinshaw Racing in 1993 to become the Arrows’s team base. The facility would later become the Super Aguri team’s headquarters when the Japanese squad made its Formula 1 debut back in 2006

Hill hopes to bring fans closer to F1

January 18th, 2012

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Hill hopes to bring fans closer to F1

Damon Hill is hoping that he can offer Sky Sports viewers a unique insight into the pressure cooker environment of fighting for the Formula 1 world championship in 2012. The 1996 world champion has joined Sky as a pundit for the coming season and believes that his experience can help the fans to relate better to the drivers. “Formula 1 is one of those sports that is very difficult to appreciate fully,” Hill told AUTOSPORT.

Hill: F1 will miss Barrichello

January 18th, 2012

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Hill: F1 will miss Barrichello

Damon Hill believes that Formula 1 will miss Rubens Barrichello if the Brazilian does not return to the grid after missing out on the Williams seat. Barrichello turns 40 this year and although he has always maintained his desire to continue to race in F1, with only one seat left open at HRT it is unlikely that he will be on the grid in 2012. Former rival Hill, who raced against Barrichello for seven seasons in F1, believes that he was a big part of the grand prix scene.

Force India reveals ’12 car launch date

January 17th, 2012

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The Force India team will unveil its 2012 challenger on February 3, the team announced on Tuesday. The launch, which coincides with the unveiling of the new Ferrari, will take place at the Silverstone circuit from 9am. Testing at Jerez gets under way on February 7

Red Bull to launch RB8 on February 6

January 17th, 2012

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Red Bull Racing will unveil its new RB8 on its own official website on February 6, the day before the first pre-season test takes place. The team announced on Tuesday that at 1pm on February 6, images of the new car and comments from drivers and management will be available on www.redbullracing.com . The RB8 car will be the machine that the Milton Keynes-based outfit is hoping will deliver its third consecutive drivers’ and constructors’ world championship following Sebastian Vettel’s back-to-back success in 2010 and 2011

New Jersey appoints GP project leaders

January 17th, 2012

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New Jersey appoints GP project leaders

New Jersey Grand Prix organisers have appointed the key men that will help lead the project into its first Formula 1 race next year. Tom Cotter, who was head of successful motorsport marketing agency the Cotter Group, has been appointed as the President of the race promoting company. He will work alongside former New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority CEO and President Dennis Robinson, who is joining as Chief Operations Officer.

Senna says he has family support

January 17th, 2012

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Senna says he has family support

Bruno Senna says his family has given its full blessing to his tie-up with Williams this year, despite his uncle Ayrton losing his life with the team back in 1994. Williams ended months of speculation about the identity of its second driver on Tuesday when it announced that Senna will line-up alongside Pastor Maldonado for 2012

Williams sure of significant improvement

January 17th, 2012

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Williams sure of significant improvement

Williams’s Chief Operations Engineer Mark Gillan is adamant the team will take a significant step forward in performance this year following a difficult 2011. “Obviously it will be a quite a significant improvement in performance but that is our goal and I am reasonably confident looking forward that we will achieve that goal,” said Gillan during a teleconference after Williams confirmed Bruno Senna for the 2012 season. “We want to be consistently in the top ten, going through to Q3 and consistently scoring points.

Senna says money didn’t get him drive

January 17th, 2012

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Senna says money didn’t get him drive

Bruno Senna insists that his capture of a Williams seat for 2012 was not just down to sponsorship – after revealing the exhaustive tests he was put through to show he was good enough for the drive.

Williams confirms Senna for 2012

January 17th, 2012

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Williams confirms Senna for 2012

Bruno Senna will drive the second Williams car during the 2012 Formula 1 season, as the team from Grove finally announced who will partner Pastor Maldonado.

Hill joins Sky’s Formula 1 team

January 17th, 2012

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Hill joins Sky’s Formula 1 team

Damon Hill is to join Sky’s coverage of Formula 1 this year to help provide expert analysis of the action for half the races.

Senna movie gets BAFTA nominations

January 17th, 2012

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Senna movie gets BAFTA nominations

The Senna film has been nominated for three British Academy Film Awards, ahead of the gala ceremony that takes place next month. The documentary on the life of the late three-time world champion has already proved a hit with cinema audiences, and picked up a number of trophies – including an AUTOSPORT Award last year. Now, it has been recognised by the judges of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), who have nominated it in three categories