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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.

Spies frustrated by practice crash

November 4th, 2011

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Spies frustrated by practice crash

Ben Spies said his crash in afternoon practice at Valencia was frustrating, but did not make too much difference to his physical condition.

Hayes enjoys ‘scary’ MotoGP debut

November 4th, 2011

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American Superbike champion Josh Hayes admitted that making his MotoGP debut in wet conditions in Valencia practice was a “scary” experience. The 36-year-old is standing in for the injured Colin Edwards at Tech 3 Yamaha this weekend, and impressed by taking 10th place in the afternoon session

Suzuki: Fastest time underlines gains

November 4th, 2011

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Suzuki: Fastest time underlines gains

Suzuki said Alvaro Bautista’s timesheet-topping performance at Valencia showed that the team was making genuine progress, even though it was a wet session. Bautista led the way in the rain this afternoon, and despite the rain having shaken up the order, team boss Paul Denning pointed out that for much of the year wet and cold conditions had actually been Suzuki’s weak spot. “Cold and low grip conditions were always the situation that caused us the most problems and as we saw at Phillip Island a few weeks back – and again today – the steps that Suzuki has taken with the GSV-R have again proven to be very effective,” said Denning.

Bautista puts Suzuki on top in rain

November 4th, 2011

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Bautista puts Suzuki on top in rain

Alvaro Bautista was fastest for Suzuki as the rain intensified in Friday’s second practice session for the Valencia Grand Prix. Although conditions eventually improved, and a hint of sunshine even appeared at the very end, much of the session saw a significantly wetter track than morning practice

Bradl champion as Marquez pulls out

November 4th, 2011

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Bradl champion as Marquez pulls out

Stefan Bradl has become the 2011 Moto2 world champion after title rival Marc Marquez decided he would definitely have to withdraw from the Valencia season finale. Marquez sustained an injury to his optic nerve when he crashed at the start of free practice at Sepang a fortnight ago. He attempted to continue with the Malaysian Grand Prix weekend before ultimately pulling out after qualifying.

Stoner fastest at damp Valencia

November 4th, 2011

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Stoner fastest at damp Valencia

World champion Casey Stoner and Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa prevented any giant-killing in a damp opening free practice session at Valencia. After a topsy-turvy session full of position swapping, Stoner resumed the usual order by putting in a 1m45.513s lap with five minutes to go, with Pedrosa joining him at the front a few minutes later, the Spaniard lapping 0.2 seconds slower. Until the late Honda surge, a variety of unusual names took advantage of the slippery conditions and appeared at or near the top of the times.

FTR reveals Moto3 design

November 4th, 2011

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FTR reveals Moto3 design

FTR has launched the M311 chassis that it will field in next year’s new Moto3 category. The constructor is entering the 125cc world championship’s replacement series in addition to its Moto2 programme, which has so far delivered one victory with Karel Abraham in last year’s season finale at Valencia. FTR’s Steve Bones expects to see at least half a dozen of the bikes on the grid next year

Capirossi: Retiring is the right choice

November 4th, 2011

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Capirossi: Retiring is the right choice

Loris Capirossi says he is confident he has made the right decision in retiring at the end of the year, as he prepares for his final MotoGP start at Valencia this weekend.

Simoncelli crash a ‘freak accident’

November 4th, 2011

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Simoncelli crash a ‘freak accident’

MotoGP world champions Casey Stoner and Valentino Rossi do not think anything could have been done to prevent Marco Simoncelli’s fatal accident in the Malaysian Grand Prix. Simoncelli died from injuries suffered when he veered into the path of Rossi and Colin Edwards during a crash on lap two at Sepang. Amid suggestions that a quirk of the Bridgestone tyres’ characteristics caught Simoncelli out and caused his bike’s unusual trajectory in the crash, Stoner insisted that the incident was just an unfortunate one-off and not tyre-related.

Spies says injuries healing well

November 4th, 2011

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Spies says injuries healing well

Ben Spies says he is in much better physical condition going into the Valencia Grand Prix, but admitted that the mental challenge of racing on in the wake of Marco Simoncelli’s death would be as hard as any injury. Yamaha rider Spies suffered concussion and rib injuries in a heavy crash at Phillip Island, forcing him to sit out the Australian Grand Prix.

Misano to be renamed after Simoncelli

November 3rd, 2011

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Misano to be renamed after Simoncelli

The Misano circuit in Italy is to be renamed in honour of the late Marco Simoncelli. Luca Colaiacovo, president of the circuit’s board of directors, said that the renaming of the track, currently know as Misano World Circuit, was a fitting tribute to Simoncelli, who grew up and lived in nearby Coriano.

Lorenzo to miss MotoGP finale

November 2nd, 2011

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Lorenzo to miss MotoGP finale

Jorge Lorenzo will not race in the MotoGP finale at the Valencia circuit, his Yamaha team said on Wednesday. The Spanish rider was forced to miss the Australian and Malaysian Grands Prix after injuring a finger of his left hand in a crash at Phillip Island. Yamaha said Lorenzo continues to make good progress in his recovery following plastic surgery to repair the damage, but confirmed the Spaniard will be absent from the final race of the year

Honda riders out to honour Simoncelli

November 1st, 2011

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Honda riders out to honour Simoncelli

Casey Stoner, Andrea Dovizioso and Dani Pedrosa say they will race at MotoGP’s Valencia finale in honour of Marco Simoncelli, who died in a crash on lap two of the Malaysian Grand Prix. Stoner, who clinched the 2011 championship at his home race of Australia, said the prospect of returning to racing was difficult to handle but that he and the team were determined to put on a good show in memory of Simoncelli. “It will be difficult to return to racing this weekend after Marco’s terrible accident in Sepang,” Stoner said, “but I think it is the best thing we can do to honour him

Gresini to race at Valencia

October 31st, 2011

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Gresini to race at Valencia

Gresini Racing has announced that it will compete in the Valencia Grand Prix as a tribute to its late rider Marco Simoncelli. Fausto Gresini had initially indicated that his team would withdraw from the season finale in the wake of Simoncelli’s death in a crash on lap two of the Malaysian GP.

‘Minute’s noise’ mooted for Simoncelli

October 31st, 2011

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‘Minute’s noise’ mooted for Simoncelli

Marco Simoncelli’s father Paolo has requested that a ‘minute of noise’ is held during this weekend’s Valencia Grand Prix in memory of his son, rather than the traditional minute’s silence. Simoncelli died when he crashed on lap two of the Malaysian Grand Prix and was struck by the following bikes of Colin Edwards and Valentino Rossi. His funeral took place in Coriano last Thursday.

Hayes to stand in for Edwards

October 31st, 2011

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Hayes to stand in for Edwards

American Superbike champion Josh Hayes will stand in for the injured Colin Edwards at Tech 3 Yamaha in this weekend’s Valencia Grand Prix.

Edwards to miss Valencia race

October 28th, 2011

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Edwards to miss Valencia race

Colin Edwards will miss the final MotoGP race of the season at Valencia as he requires surgery on injuries sustained in the Sepang crash in which Marco Simoncelli lost his life. Tech 3 Yamaha rider Edwards was diagnosed with multiple fractures to his left arm in an examination in hospital in Houston this week

Simoncelli’s father pays tribute

October 25th, 2011

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Simoncelli’s father pays tribute

Paolo Simoncelli has paid his respects to a ‘special, honest and pure son’ and expressed his gratitude at the outpouring of grief following Marco Simoncelli’s fatal accident in the Malaysian Grand Prix. Speaking to Italian media, Paolo Simoncelli said the support shown in the wake of the accident had provided comfort, and insisted there was no blame to be apportioned. “Marco was a very special person, and perhaps people have understood what he was like.

Gresini to appear at Valencia

October 25th, 2011

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Gresini to appear at Valencia

Gresini Racing will attend the season-ending Valencia Grand Prix after all, but has yet to decide whether it will compete in the event.

Sepang defends decision to cancel race

October 25th, 2011

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Sepang defends decision to cancel race

The Sepang International Circuit has defended the decision to cancel the Malaysian Grand Prix following the accident that took Marco Simoncelli’s life. The decision to cancel the race after just two laps did not go down well with some of the fans in the grandstands, who were unhappy about the call by the race organisers. The circuit boss, however, said the decision was taken considering the severity of the crash and in conjunction with MotoGP rights holder Dorna.