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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.

Kanaan takes Las Vegas pole

October 14th, 2011

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Kanaan takes Las Vegas pole

Tony Kanaan claimed his first fully-fledged pole position for KV Racing Technology as the IndyCar Series title contenders were upstaged in Las Vegas qualifying. Championship rivals Will Power and Dario Franchitti will start back on row nine, with Oriol Servia, Kentucky winner Ed Carpenter and Indianapolis polesitter Alex Tagliani completing the line-up on the front two rows

Kanaan leads final practice at Vegas

October 14th, 2011

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Kanaan leads final practice at Vegas

Tony Kanaan was quickest in final practice ahead of qualifying for the IndyCar title decider at Las Vegas. The Brazilian KV Racing Technology driver edged out Oriol Servia (Newman/Haas) by 0.0246 seconds. Andretti Autosport’s Ryan Hunter-Reay was third, ahead of Ganassi driver Scott Dixon, Kanaan’s team-mate EJ Viso

Shank launches IndyCar team

October 14th, 2011

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Shank launches IndyCar team

Grand-Am squad Michael Shank Racing has announced that it will enter the IndyCar Series next year. The team, which was previously a front-runner in the Atlantic Championship, will run a single car in a partnership between Shank, businessman Brian Bailey and NASCAR racer AJ Allmendinger.

Patrick tops first Vegas practice

October 13th, 2011

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Patrick tops first Vegas practice

Danica Patrick topped the opening practice session for this weekend’s IndyCar season finale at Las Vegas.

Detroit returns to IndyCar schedule

October 12th, 2011

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Detroit returns to IndyCar schedule

The IndyCar Series will return to Detroit’s Belle Isle street track in 2012 after a two-year absence. Penske and its new engine supplier Chevrolet have collaborated to get the race back onto the schedule, and the 2.1-mile circuit has secured a place on the IndyCar calendar for 1-3 June next year.

Panther renews Chevy partnership

October 7th, 2011

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Panther renews Chevy partnership

Panther Racing will return to Chevrolet power for 2012 when the American manufacturer rejoins the IndyCar Series next year. The squad ran General Motors engines – initially with the Oldsmobile brand, then with Chevrolet – from its arrival in IndyCar in 1998 to the end of 2005, representing Chevy alone in its final season before last departing the series.

Conquest recalls Saavedra for Vegas

October 7th, 2011

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Conquest recalls Saavedra for Vegas

Sebastian Saavedra will return to Conquest Racing for the final round of the IndyCar Series at Las Vegas. The 21-year-old Colombian was the team’s driver for most of the year, but moved aside for Joao Paulo de Oliveira at Motegi and Dillon Battistini at Kentucky

Tracy signs Dragon deal for Las Vegas

October 6th, 2011

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Tracy signs Dragon deal for Las Vegas

Paul Tracy has secured a deal to race in next weekend’s IndyCar season finale at Las Vegas. The 2003 Champ Car champion initially signed a five-race deal with Dragon this season to encompass Long Beach, Texas, Toronto, Edmonton and Sears Point, having driven for Dreyer & Reinbold at the Indianpolis 500.

Fisher unsure of 2012 plans

October 3rd, 2011

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Fisher unsure of 2012 plans

Shock Kentucky IndyCar winner Sarah Fisher Racing is not yet sure how many races it will manage to contest in 2012, having lost main sponsor Dollar General. Ed Carpenter took Sarah Fisher’s team to a spectacular maiden win yesterday in a photo-finish with reigning champion Dario Franchitti’s Ganassi car

Franchitti not thinking about title yet

October 3rd, 2011

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Franchitti not thinking about title yet

Dario Franchitti says he will not feel comfortable about his IndyCar title chances until the championship is wrapped up, despite retaking the points lead at Kentucky.

Carpenter elated with maiden win

October 2nd, 2011

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Carpenter elated with maiden win

An elated Ed Carpenter said scoring his breakthrough IndyCar victory felt better than he could ever have predicted. Carpenter triumphed in a thrilling last-gaps duel with Dario Franchitti, taking the chequered flag just 0.0098s ahead of the Scot.

Power philosophical about crash

October 2nd, 2011

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Power philosophical about crash

Will Power said he was helpless to avoid a pitlane collision with Ana Beatriz which ruined his race and cost him the championship lead, but resolved to come back fighting at the Las Vegas finale. Power had led from the race’s opening until lap 48, when he dived into the pits for the first time – only for the Dreyer and Reinbold team to release Beatriz into his path

Carpenter wins, Franchitti takes lead

October 2nd, 2011

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Carpenter wins, Franchitti takes lead

Ed Carpenter scored his maiden IndyCar victory at Kentucky, while Dario Franchitti profited from a pitlane collision for Will Power to reclaim the championship lead by finishing second. With just one race remaining, the Las Vegas finale, Franchitti now leads Power by 18 points – a dramatic swing as he trailed by 11 heading into Kentucky.

Power flies to Kentucky pole

October 1st, 2011

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Power flies to Kentucky pole

IndyCar championship leader Will Power gave his title bid another boost by taking pole position at Kentucky Speedway, while his title rival Dario Franchitti was only 11th. Penske driver Power’s two-lap average of 219.283mph allowed him to beat Ganassi’s Graham Rahal to the top spot by a relatively comfortable margin. Rookies James Hinchcliffe (Newman/Haas) and JR Hildebrand (Panther) enjoyed very strong qualifying runs to claim third and fifth, split by an equally impressive showing from Sarah Fisher Racing’s Ed Carpenter

Dixon stays on top at Kentucky

October 1st, 2011

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Scott Dixon kept up his early momentum at Kentucky by topping an ultra-close second session, while there was again little to separate title rivals Dario Franchitti and Will Power. The 2009 polesitter rose to the top of the timesheets with 15 minutes remaining and was never displaced, as several yellow flags for track debris disrupted the momentum of the session. Ryan Hunter-Reay (Andretti) moved into second in the final two minutes, following the third and final yellow flag break.

Dixon denies Meira in first practice

October 1st, 2011

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Scott Dixon denied Vitor Meira top spot in the opening session of IndyCar’s penultimate round at the Kentucky Speedway, while Dario Franchitti edged title rival Will Power. AJ Foyt’s Meira ran at the sharp end throughout the session, and grabbed second two minutes from the end. He could not quite match Dixon however, with the Ganassi man also setting his best time in the final minutes

IndyCar suspends Unser over charge

September 30th, 2011

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IndyCar suspends Unser over charge

Al Unser Jr has been suspended from his role with the IndyCar Series after being charged with driving under the influence of alcohol in Albuquerque. The double CART Indycar champion had been working with the championship as a driver coach and assisting in race control.

New Dallara completes Indy oval test

September 28th, 2011

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New Dallara completes Indy oval test

Dan Wheldon completed on Tuesday the new IndyCar car’s maiden test at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway oval. The two-time Indy 500 took to the oval track for the first time to carry out a three-day testing session in which he worked on superspeedway validation with the Dallara chassis.

Castroneves penalised for outburst

September 27th, 2011

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Castroneves penalised for outburst

Helio Castroneves has been placed on probation for the remainder of the IndyCar season and fined $30,000 for his comments after the Motegi race. The Brazilian hit out at chief steward Brian Barnhart following the penalty he was given in the Japanese race for having overtaken under yellow.

Fisher adds Scheckter for Las Vegas

September 26th, 2011

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Fisher adds Scheckter for Las Vegas

Sarah Fisher Racing will return to a two-car line-up for the IndyCar Series finale at Las Vegas, fielding Tomas Scheckter alongside team regular Ed Carpenter. The outing will be Scheckter’s fourth IndyCar start of the year.