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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.

Stoner praises Honda effort

October 16th, 2011

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Stoner praises Honda effort

Casey Stoner praised his Honda team for “an amazing season,” after his Australian Grand Prix victory made him MotoGP world champion for the second time. Stoner, whose win was his fifth in successive years at Phillip Island, knew that a top six finish would give him the title, following rival Jorge Lorenzo’s withdrawal from the race through injury.

Stoner takes title with home win

October 16th, 2011

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Stoner takes title with home win

Casey Stoner wrapped up his second MotoGP World Championship title by winning the Australian Grand Prix for a fifth successive year. With his only title rival Jorge Lorenzo unable to start following the injuries he sustained in his warm-up crash, Stoner knew he only had to finish sixth to put the championship beyond the Spaniard’s reach.

De Angelis beats Bradl in Australia

October 16th, 2011

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De Angelis beats Bradl in Australia

Alex de Angelis passed Stefan Bradl on the last lap and then survived a punt up the rear from the German to take his first Moto2 victory of the year at the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island. Bradl’s second place, however, allowed him to retake the championship lead from Marc Marquez, who nevertheless took an amazing third place from the back of the 38-bike grid

Cortese wins shortened race

October 16th, 2011

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Cortese wins shortened race

Sandro Cortese took his second 125cc World Championship victory with a dominant ride in a rain-shortened Australian Grand Prix. Rain on the Phillip Island grid forced a delayed start, but when things did get underway, Cortese asserted himself ahead of the other slick-shod runners while Adrian Martin – on wets – disappeared off into an eight-second lead after only two laps

Lorenzo to miss Australian GP

October 16th, 2011

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Lorenzo to miss Australian GP

Jorge Lorenzo will miss the Australian Grand Prix after sustaining an injury to his left hand as a result of a crash in warm-up. The world champion high-sided off his Yamaha exiting Turn 12 at the end of the session, and appeared to emerge unscathed after walking away from the accident. However, after visiting the medical centre for checks, he was deemed unfit to race by medical officials due to an injury to one of his fingers.

Cudlin in doubt for Australian GP

October 15th, 2011

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Cudlin in doubt for Australian GP

Damian Cudlin’s participation in the Australian Grand Prix is in doubt after his crash on Saturday. The Aspar rider, standing in for the injured Hector Barbera, was thrown out of the seat of his Ducati during final practice, landing heavily on his left hip and suffering an abrasion all the way around his left side from his buttock to his stomach. The Australian completed a handful of laps in qualifying but finished over six seconds of the pace.

Aoyama quits Gresini for WSB Honda

October 15th, 2011

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Aoyama quits Gresini for WSB Honda

Hiroshi Aoyama will quit Gresini’s MotoGP squad at the end of 2011 to join Honda’s factory World Superbike team alongside Jonathan Rea. The 29-year-old Japanese rider won the final 250cc world championship with Scot Racing in 2009, before graduating to the premier class with the Interwetten Honda team, but his 2010 season was marred by a back-breaking shunt at Silverstone.

Hayden: Sixth nothing to celebrate

October 15th, 2011

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Hayden: Sixth nothing to celebrate

Nicky Hayden secured his best grid position of the season in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island, but admitted afterwards that sixth position was no reason to celebrate for the former world champion. Ducati has struggled for pace through the weekend at a circuit it generally excels on. Hayden has been the faster of its riders with Valentino Rossi lost in set-up woes, but the American remains realistic about converting his first second row grid slot of the year

Suzuki: fourth spot ‘almost funny’

October 15th, 2011

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Suzuki: fourth spot ‘almost funny’

Suzuki team manager Paul Denning described Alvaro Bautista’s fourth place on the Australian Grand Prix grid as “almost funny”. The Japanese manufacturer has traditionally struggled at Phillip Island, and was expected to do likewise at this weekend’s event. However, Bautista, who has performed strongly during the second half of the season, found a tow from Andrea Dovizioso’s Honda, which was enough to drag him to fourth place on the grid; a career-best for the former 125cc world champion

Stoner: Bike now comfortable

October 15th, 2011

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Stoner: Bike now comfortable

Casey Stoner said his blistering Australian Grand Prix pole position was only possible because he now feels far more comfortable on his Honda than after Friday practice. As has been the case on numerous occasions in 2011, championship leader Stoner claimed he was far from happy with the grip afforded by his RCV212 after the first two practice sessions – despite going fastest in each. However, he was much happier with the situation after also topping Saturday practice and then taking pole by half a second from his championship rival Jorge Lorenzo

Lorenzo: Stoner is unbeatable

October 15th, 2011

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Lorenzo: Stoner is unbeatable

Jorge Lorenzo does not believe he can beat Casey Stoner to victory in Sunday’s Australian Grand Prix, following his championship rival’s pole position at Phillip Island. The world champion, who is the only man that can now deny Stoner this year’s title, qualified second for the race, 0.473s behind the Honda rider. But, after beating Stoner only twice in the last six races, the Spaniard is not expecting to put up much of a fight against his rival – especially as the Australian has won his home race for the last four years.

Simoncelli targets Australian podium

October 15th, 2011

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Simoncelli targets Australian podium

Marco Simoncelli is still targeting a podium finish at the Australian Grand Prix after qualifying third for the Phillip Island race.

De Angelis snatches Australian pole

October 15th, 2011

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De Angelis snatches Australian pole

Alex de Angelis claimed his first Moto2 pole of the year in an all-action climax to qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix. Britain’s Scott Redding held the top spot once the field had completed its first flying lap, but when rain hit the circuit just four minutes into the session, it looked as though he would give the Marc VDS Suter team its first pole of 2011

Stoner takes Australian GP pole

October 15th, 2011

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Stoner takes Australian GP pole

Casey Stoner stormed to his 11th pole position of the year by obliterating his rivals in qualifying for the Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island. The championship leader did not show his hand during the first half of the session, and, after running on at the Honda corner, looked as though he may have to settle for fourth spot when Marco Simoncelli knocked him off the front row with 17 minutes to go. But that was merely the home hero’s cue to unleash his raw pace; the Honda rider doing so by going fastest in 1m30.042s and then improving twice more to finish the session with a pole time of 1m29.975

Zarco on pole, despite crash

October 15th, 2011

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Zarco on pole, despite crash

Johann Zarco claimed his fourth pole position of the year, despite a heavy crash in the final minute of qualifying for the 125cc Australian Grand Prix at Phillip Island.

Stoner still ahead in final practice

October 15th, 2011

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Stoner still ahead in final practice

Casey Stoner picked up where he left off on Friday afternoon by going fastest in the final practice session for the Australian Grand Prix by a huge margin. The Honda rider, who has an outside chance of wrapping up his second world title in front of his home crowd, hit the front with a little over half of the 45-minute session to go at Phillip Island in 1m31.279s and just kept getting faster. While that initial pace-setting time, and subsequent others, were set on hard tyres, a switch to a softer front Bridgestone allowed him to improve his speed considerably in a session that proved slower than the previous day’s due to high winds at the track

Simoncelli shrugs off crashes

October 14th, 2011

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Simoncelli shrugs off crashes

Marco Simoncelli says he understands why he crashed twice in Friday practice at Phillip Island and is hugely encouraged by his pace.

Marquez hit with grid penalty

October 14th, 2011

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Marquez hit with grid penalty

Moto2 championship leader Marc Marquez has been handed a one-minute penalty to be added to his qualifying time for an incident during practice for the Australian Grand Prix. Marquez crashed into the back of Ratthapark Wilairot once the chequered flag had been waved at the end of the morning practice session. After reviewing the collision, FIM has decided that the Spaniard had ridden in an irresponsible manner and has therefore given Marquez a one-minute penalty that will be added to his qualifying time.

Rossi troubled by set-up and injury

October 14th, 2011

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Rossi troubled by set-up and injury

Valentino Rossi was frustrated with both his Ducati’s handling and pain from his injured finger after practice at Phillip Island. The Italian, who suffered a hairline fracture to his left hand in a first-lap tangle in Japan a fortnight ago, was only 13th today. “Today wasn’t easy, especially since we had hoped to be better immediately, like at Motegi two weeks ago, as this track is normally good for the Ducati,” said Rossi

Honda riders criticise bumpy circuit

October 14th, 2011

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Honda riders criticise bumpy circuit

The Honda riders were frustrated by the Phillip Island circuit’s bumps during Australian Grand Prix free practice, with pacesetter Casey Stoner suggesting there was much more speed to come if the bike could handle the surface better. Championship leader Stoner was fastest in both Friday sessions at his home track, but said it had been a very difficult day. “I don’t feel totally comfortable with the bike today and I’m sure we can improve the bike a lot,” he said.