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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
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    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.

Rankings: Franchitti into top five

July 11th, 2011

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Rankings: Franchitti into top five

Dario Franchitti moved into the Castrol EDGE Driver Rankings top five for the very first time courtesy of a controversial win in Toronto. The defending IndyCar champion tipped race leader Will Power into a spin late in the race before going on to claim a fourth win of the season – allowing him to vault Power and Briton Lewis Hamilton for fifth spot. Power (7) was able to resume the race but was involved in a later incident and was forced to retire, his subsequent loss of points dropping him one place to seventh

Power slams Franchitti after clash

July 11th, 2011

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Power slams Franchitti after clash

Will Power believes Toronto winner Dario Franchitti deserved to be penalised for their collision in Sunday’s IndyCar race at the Canadian street circuit. The title two rivals came together in the final stint of the race while trying to fight their way back to the front past cars on alternative strategies

Franchitti takes controversial win

July 10th, 2011

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Franchitti takes controversial win

Dario Franchitti led Scott Dixon in a Ganassi one-two in a typically chaotic Toronto IndyCar race – despite a collision with title rival Will Power.

Power back on pole in Toronto

July 9th, 2011

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Power back on pole in Toronto

Will Power returned to pole position in qualifying for the IndyCar Series’ Toronto round.

Conway quickest despite crash

July 9th, 2011

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Conway quickest despite crash

Mike Conway was quickest in morning practice ahead of qualifying for the IndyCar Series’ Toronto round – despite crashing during the session.

Power quickest in practice two

July 8th, 2011

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Will Power jumped to the top of the times at the end of the second IndyCar Series Friday practice session in Toronto. The Penske driver’s last-gasp 1m00.558s lap saw him depose Ganassi’s Scott Dixon by 0.1075 seconds – though the Australian suggested that his burst of pace was only due to a late switch to fresh tyres. Dixon’s team-mate Dario Franchitti was next up, 0.4s off the pace.

Plowman to make IndyCar debut

July 8th, 2011

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Plowman to make IndyCar debut

Martin Plowman will make his IndyCar debut for Sam Schmidt Motorsports at Mid-Ohio next month. The 23-year-old Briton will also enter two more road course events at Sears Point and at the new Baltimore street circuit. “I’m thrilled to finally complete one of my goals, driving in the IndyCar Series,” said Plowman

Franchitti leads opening practice

July 8th, 2011

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Dario Franchitti (Ganassi) was quickest in the opening free practice session in Toronto ahead of the IndyCar Series’ return to street racing this weekend. The reigning champion put in a 1m01.568s lap right at the end of the morning to edge out Penske’s Helio Castroneves by 0.0640 seconds. The extremely close session saw four different teams in the top four, as Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay and Dreyer & Reinbold’s Justin Wilson followed Franchitti and Castroneves.

Carroll eyeing Motegi outing

July 7th, 2011

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Carroll eyeing Motegi outing

Adam Carroll could make his return to IndyCar racing at Motgei later this year with Andretti Autosport, according to this week’s AUTOSPORT magazine. Carroll contested two IndyCar races last year in an Andretti Autosport/AFS entry at Watkins Glen and Mid-Ohio, and is now eying a Motegi race drive with Michael Andretti’s team

Fontana returns to IndyCar calendar

July 5th, 2011

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Fontana returns to IndyCar calendar

The IndyCar series will return to the Auto Club Speedway for a night race in 2012, it was announced on Tuesday. The two-mile oval circuit hosted CART races from 1997 to 2002 and IndyCar events from 2002 to 2005, before it was dropped from the calendar. “We feel the time is right to bring IndyCar racing back to Auto Club Speedway,” said Randy Bernard, chief executive officer of INDYCAR.

Power completes Mid-Ohio test

June 30th, 2011

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Power completes Mid-Ohio test

Will Power completed a test at Mid-Ohio after being cleared to drive again following his shunt in the Iowa 250 event last weekend. The Australian Penske driver suffered a mild concussion after crashing heavily at Turn 2 while attempting to lap Vitor Meira before half distance and was required to take a mandatory ImPACT (Immediate Post-concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing) before being deemed fit to drive on the road course alongside team-mates Helio Castroneves and Ryan Briscoe.

Andretti ends win drought at Iowa

June 26th, 2011

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Andretti ends win drought at Iowa

Marco Andretti finally claimed his second IndyCar Series win under the lights at Iowa Speedway on Saturday night, almost five years after his maiden triumph. The Andretti Autosport won a superb late battle with his former team-mate Tony Kanaan, now at KV Racing Technology, with Scott Dixon coming through from 23rd on the grid to third for Ganassi

Sato claims first IndyCar pole

June 24th, 2011

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Sato claims first IndyCar pole

Takuma Sato claimed his first IndyCar Series pole position in qualifying for the Iowa round.

Wheldon to test 2012 prototype

June 23rd, 2011

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Wheldon to test 2012 prototype

Dan Wheldon and Bryan Herta Autosport will conduct the official testing programme of the IndyCar Series’ 2012 prototype chassis later this year. Former series champion Wheldon, who took a shock victory on his first appearance of the year at the Indianapolis 500 last month, will conduct the tests on behalf of championship organisers in August and September

Franchitti wins at Milwaukee

June 19th, 2011

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Dario Franchitti moved into an equal points lead with Will Power by taking victory on the IndyCar Series’ return to Milwaukee Mile, although the Australian was able to salvage fourth place having started only 17th. Ganassi driver Franchitti led much of the race, with Helio Castroneves (Penske) and Tony Kanaan his main rivals, in the latter’s strongest run since joining KV Racing Technology for 2011. All three drivers had stints in the lead amid some classic racing on the much-loved short oval, but both the Brazilians would hit trouble in the closing stages, with Kanaan spinning into the wall with 29 laps to go, and Castroneves having to pit with a deflating tyre, leaving him ninth at the flag

De Silvestro to race despite crash

June 19th, 2011

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De Silvestro to race despite crash

Simona de Silvestro has been cleared to take part in today’s Milwaukee IndyCar race following her heavy crash in Saturday’s qualifying session. The HVM driver had a double impact with the wall after spinning at Turn 4 on her qualifying run.

Franchitti takes Milwaukee pole

June 18th, 2011

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Franchitti takes Milwaukee pole

Dario Franchitti claimed his and the Ganassi team’s first pole position of the 2011 IndyCar season in Milwaukee qualifying. The reigning champion was quickest in both today’s practice sessions, and carried that form through to qualifying with a two-lap average of 170.841mph after a run he rated as his best ever at the Wisconsin one-mile oval.

Franchitti pips Sato in final practice

June 18th, 2011

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Dario Franchitti was quickest again in final practice ahead of qualifying for the IndyCar Series’ Milwaukee round. For much of the session, it looked like KV Racing Technology might come away with an encouraging one-two. The field was split into two groups, each getting half an hour of running, and KV’s Tony Kanaan was fastest in the first half, before his team-mate Takuma Sato hit the front in the second segment

Franchitti on top in second session

June 18th, 2011

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Franchitti on top in second session

Dario Franchitti and Scott Dixon put Ganassi first and second in IndyCar morning practice at the Milwaukee Mile. The duo set their best times early on their opening runs of the day, and remained out of the competition’s reach for the rest of the hour. Tony Kanaan had a strong run for KV Racing in third place, with Helio Castroneves the top Penske driver in fourth and Ryan Hunter-Reay Andretti Autosport’s lead runner in fifth.

Power fastest in Friday practice

June 18th, 2011

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Power fastest in Friday practice

Will Power was fastest in Friday afternoon’s practice session for the IndyCar Series’ return to Milwaukee this weekend. Fresh from his first ever oval victory at Texas a week ago, Penske driver Power set a best time of 21.7957s to beat fellow Texas winner and title rival Dario Franchitti (Ganassi) by 0.0242 seconds