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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.

Lorenzo says he is not MotoGP title favourite

May 17th, 2010

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Lorenzo says he is not MotoGP title favourite

Jorge Lorenzo says he does not see himself as favourite for the MotoGP title despite having taken the lead after his win at Jerez. The Yamaha rider has enjoyed a very strong start to the season, having finished second in Qatar and first in his home race

Capirossi impressed by Arena layout

May 7th, 2010

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Capirossi impressed by Arena layout

Loris Capirossi has given Silverstone’s new grand prix circuit a thumbs-up after the Suzuki MotoGP ace tried out the new Arena layout this week.

Lorenzo determined to stay at Yamaha

May 3rd, 2010

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Lorenzo determined to stay at Yamaha

Jorge Lorenzo says his preference is to stay with Yamaha for 2011 and beyond, even though team-mate Valentino Rossi believes the team cannot support both riders. Last year Rossi hinted that he would only be willing to agree a new deal with Yamaha if Lorenzo went elsewhere as he did not feel their joint number one status was sustainable. But Lorenzo sees no reason why their partnership cannot continue into a third year

MotoGP home win like a movie – Lorenzo

May 2nd, 2010

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MotoGP home win like a movie – Lorenzo

Jorge Lorenzo admitted that it would take a while for his first home victory in MotoGP to sink in, after he won the Spanish Grand Prix today thanks to a dramatic last-lap pass on countryman Dani Pedrosa. The Yamaha rider had dropped to fifth at the start, but hunted down and passed everyone ahead, eventually get ahead of Pedrosa half a lap from the finish. Although Lorenzo was twice a winner at Jerez in 250cc, none of his previous MotoGP wins had come in Spain

Capirossi fired up for 300th start

April 6th, 2010

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Capirossi fired up for 300th start

Loris Capirossi will make history at this weekend’s Qatar Grand Prix, where the veteran rider will take part in his 300th race. “I never thought I would get to this many, but I have been lucky in my career and I have always given 100% and kept myself fit so that I have been able to stay at the top,” said Capirossi, who already holds the record for the most starts of any rider in the history of motorcycle racing.

Aoyama hits out at MotoGP testing restrictions

March 31st, 2010

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Aoyama hits out at MotoGP testing restrictions

250cc champion Hiroshi Aoyama says the testing limits now in place in MotoGP are unfair on rookie riders, and that he will not have a chance to shine in the opening races. Pre-season testing has been reduced to just six days for the race riders this year, with rookies allowed an extra three days.

West secures place on Moto2 grid

March 17th, 2010

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West secures place on Moto2 grid

Former works Kawasaki rider Anthony West has become the latest ex MotoGP racer to secure a place in the Moto2 field. The 28-year-old Australian had signed for the MZ team earlier this year, but the squad was only on the reserve list for the new championship, which supersedes the 250cc series. However with the Kino team hitting financial problems, MZ and West have now been awarded the final spot on the grid

Suzuki unveils revised livery for 2010

March 12th, 2010

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Suzuki unveils revised livery for 2010

Suzuki has unveiled the new livery that its GSV-R will carry in the 2010 MotoGP championship. The team has retained its traditional Rizla backing, but has altered the colour scheme to a new design inspired by revered motorsport helmet and racing clothing designer Troy Lee’s studio.

Simoncelli confident he will improve

March 5th, 2010

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Simoncelli confident he will improve

Marco Simoncelli has admitted that he has been disappointed with his MotoGP testing form so far, but remains confident that he can get up to speed when the season starts. The 2008 250cc champion has graduated to MotoGP with Gresini Honda this year

Rossi continues to dominate testing

February 26th, 2010

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Rossi continues to dominate testing

Valentino Rossi remained unstoppable at the end of the second pre-season MotoGP test at Sepang, beating his 2009 pole time at the Malaysian Grand Prix venue. The world champion has now been fastest on all four winter test days to date – all of which have taken place at Sepang – and his 2m00.271s lap today was 0.8s quicker than he had managed yesterday. With Rossi’s team-mate Jorge Lorenzo sidelined by a hand injury at present, Casey Stoner was unsurprisingly his main rival.

‘No pressure’ on Spies in 2010

February 4th, 2010

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‘No pressure’ on Spies in 2010

Yamaha will not put any pressure on its World Superbike champion Ben Spies to immediately win in MotoGP, according to the firm’s racing boss Lin Jarvis. Spies moves to MotoGP with Yamaha’s satellite squad Tech 3 this year after taking the World Superbike crown at the first attempt in 2009. He has already made several wildcard appearances in MotoGP, and finished seventh in last year’s season finale at Valencia on his maiden appearance on a Yamaha in the series

Moto2 attracts big entry for debut

January 27th, 2010

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Moto2 attracts big entry for debut

The inaugural Moto2 championship will see a full field of 39 bikes, with another two entries waiting in the wings as reserves. The new series, in which chassis choice is free but all competitors run identical Honda engines, was over-subscribed when entries were first opened last year, and has remained at capacity despite Aprilia’s last-minute decision to pull the plug on its chassis project. Moto2′s predecessor 250cc averaged 25 entries in its final season.

Simoncelli continues 250cc feud

January 13th, 2010

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Simoncelli continues 250cc feud

Marco Simoncelli says he has no intention of speaking to fellow MotoGP rookies Alvaro Bautista and Hector Barbera following their feuds in the 250cc class.

Simoncelli keeps ambitions in check

January 2nd, 2010

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Simoncelli keeps ambitions in check

MotoGP rookie Marco Simoncelli is ready to bide his time getting up to speed at Gresini this year – but is confident it will not take long for him to make big progress. The former 250cc world champion will race alongside Marco Melandri in 2010, and says he is keeping his ambitions in check prior to the start of the season. He hopes that his form in the top category will mirror what happened in 250cc – where he hit top form after an early learning process

De Angelis gets Scot Moto2 ride

December 16th, 2009

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De Angelis gets Scot Moto2 ride

Alex de Angelis will switch to Moto2 next season with the Scot Racing team in a deal backed by their San Marino homeland. Scot had hoped to run de Angelis in MotoGP with San Marino funding, but Honda decided not to supply the team with a bike for 2010

Aprilia will not compete in Moto2

November 24th, 2009

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Aprilia will not compete in Moto2

Aprilia has announced it will not be competing in the Moto2 championship next year, as it believes it would be detrimental to its image. The Piaggio Group marque also said it will not supply bikes to privateer teams either. Moto2, where bikes will use 600cc engines, replaces the 250cc category.

Barbera wins as Aoyama takes title

November 8th, 2009

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Hector Barbera delighted his home crowd at Valencia by winning the last ever 250cc race, as Hiroshi Aoyama took the title. In a fairly exciting final race of the class, before the new Moto2 series takes over next year, Marco Simoncelli threw away all chances to snatch the title from Aoyama when he crashed from the lead late in the race. The Japanese, who only needed an 11th place in case the Italian won, fought hard for the leading positions in the early laps before running his Scot Honda wide into the gravel on lap ten and rejoining right down in 11th place.

Debon takes final 250cc pole

November 7th, 2009

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Alex Debon will start tomorrow’s last ever world championship 250cc race in pole position, before the series gives way next year to the new Moto2 class.

Aoyama closes on 250 title with win

October 25th, 2009

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Hiroshi Aoyama brought himself to the brink of the 250cc world championship by defeating title rival Marco Simoncelli in an epic Sepang race. With Simoncelli pushed down to third behind Hector Barbera in a frantic last lap, Aoyama’s championship lead is back up to 17 points, with just 25 available at the Valencia finale. The title fight is now a two-way contest, with second not sufficient to keep Barbera in contention, and fellow long-shot Alvaro Bautista crashing for the third straight race when running fourth early on.

Aoyama takes vital Sepang 250 pole

October 24th, 2009

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Hiroshi Aoyama boosted his 250cc title hopes by taking pole position at Sepang – seven places ahead of championship rival Marco Simoncelli.