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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.

Kenseth takes pole at Phoenix

November 12th, 2011

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Kenseth takes pole at Phoenix

Matt Kenseth claimed pole position for the penultimate round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Phoenix.

Edwards: Title fight will go to wire

November 12th, 2011

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Edwards: Title fight will go to wire

Carl Edwards expects the battle for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title to go down to the final lap at Homestead next week. The Roush Fenway driver currently leads the Chase by a slim three points over Tony Stewart, who has won four out of eight play-off races, including back-to-back wins in the last two events.

Busch’s Gibbs drive not in jeopardy

November 11th, 2011

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Busch’s Gibbs drive not in jeopardy

Kyle Busch admits he feared he would lose his drive with Joe Gibbs Racing following his actions during last week’s NASCAR Truck Series race at Texas, but team boss Joe Gibbs says he will continue to race for his outfit next year. On Friday morning Gibbs confirmed that the 26-year-old will remain a JGR driver for the reminder of the season and into 2012, amid speculation that #18 car’s main sponsor Mars, through its brand M&M’s, did not want to carry on its backing of the team if Busch remained behind the wheel.

A Tale of Two Stories at Texas

by Michael Conti on November 11th, 2011

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The mid-week release of the new build caught some drivers off guard . . .

Before I begin talking about this great series, I’d like to thank everyone at inRacingNews for giving me this opportunity to put a spotlight on the NASCAR iRacing Class B Series and the drivers that take part in it. I feel that finally, these sim racers  will receive the notoriety and the credit that they deserve. — MC This past week, the NiCBS hit the track at Texas Motor Speedway to kick-off Season 4 of 2011. The bumpy, fast, 1.5 mile speedway seems to always pose a challenge to the drivers in this series, and for that matter any other online racing series that tackles this venue. Because of a delay in the new build, drivers knew the week would be pretty crazy as updates would be coming right smack [...]

M and M’s suspends Busch backing

November 11th, 2011

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M and M’s suspends Busch backing

Kyle Busch has lost the backing of one of his main sponsors for the remainder of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season following his suspension from racing at Texas last weekend.

Back to Business, Class A Style

by Jameson Spies on November 10th, 2011

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Sheehan was one of the veterans to come to the fore at TMS, taking two wins in four starts.

After a fun-filled Week 13 on iRacing.com, it was back to business for competitors in the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series. There was no getting up to speed at a slow track, as sim racers were thrown to the wolves and attempted to conquer the lightening quick Texas Motor Speedway for Week One of the new season. Experience is key as speeds top the 200mph mark into the 24 degree banked Turn One, and while veteran sim racers topped the charts, a few new names made themselves known. Speaking of veterans, Kenny Humpe led all the qualifiers with a blistering lap of 27.107s edging another name familiar to iRN readers — Kevin King — by .032s, with Daniel Pope II (27.194s) the only other driver to break the 27.2s barrier.  [...]

King Dominates Wild Race at PIR

by Jason Lofing on November 9th, 2011

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King (29) didn't lead from flag-to-flag, but he always had an answer for the likes of Davidowitz (25) and Lindsey (50).

Nearly everyone in sim racing knows how much Kevin King likes Phoenix International Raceway . . . and it was not hard to see why on Tuesday night. King completely dominated Round Two of the NASCAR iRacing Pro Series (NiPS) at PIR, leading 120 of the 156 laps and never coming under any pressure to speak of, even on several late-race restarts. Dominant as King was he did not sit on the pole, as the advantage of starting in the number one spot went to Nick Ottinger.  However, Ottinger’s time at the front was short-lived.  The first lap saw him get together with Richie Davidowitz on the back straightaway, sending the pole-sitter  around and losing several positions in the process.  Ottinger would never regain the lost ground. Cautions came early [...]

Live TV for all three NASCAR series

November 8th, 2011

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Live TV for all three NASCAR series

All three NASCAR series will have their Homestead season finale broadcast live on Premier Sports over the 19-20 November. It will be the first time the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series have been broadcast live in a single year in the UK

Kyle Busch further penalised

November 8th, 2011

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Kyle Busch further penalised

Kyle Busch has been fined and placed on probation by NASCAR adding to his suspension from racing last weekend at Texas. Busch has been fined US $50,000 and placed on probation until the end of the year following his incident with Truck Series contender Ron Hornaday in the early laps of Friday’s race at Texas Motor Speedway

Stewart beats Edwards to Texas win

November 7th, 2011

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Stewart beats Edwards to Texas win

Tony Stewart claimed back-to-back wins for the second time in this year’s Chase, winning his fourth race of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season on Sunday at Texas. The Stewart Haas driver continued to close on the series points lead after beating Chase leader Carl Edwards with a categoric win, taking home a perfect score that now places him only three points behind his Roush Fenway rival. Edwards tried putting the pressure on Stewart in the final laps as both spent most of the race at the sharp end of the field but in the end he did not have anything for him despite Roush Fenway cars looking like the class of the field for most of the event

Busch apologises for Texas clash

November 6th, 2011

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Busch apologises for Texas clash

Kyle Busch has publicly apologised following his incident in Friday’s NASCAR Truck Series race, which caused him to be suspended from competing at Texas. Busch was parked by NASCAR officials after intentionally crashing into the back of Truck series title contender Ron Hornaday under caution, spinning him against the barrier and putting him out of Friday night’s race. His actions came as retaliation for previous contact while fighting for second place early in the race

Edwards plays down Stewart threat

November 5th, 2011

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Edwards plays down Stewart threat

Chase leader Carl Edwards claims Tony Stewart is not his main threat for the championship as the battle for the NASCAR Sprint Cup title enters its defining stages. After seven out of 10 play-off events, the Roush Fenway driver leads the standing by nine points over Stewart, who has won three out of the seven Chase races, and recently took victory at Martinsville.

Busch suspended over Truck clash

November 5th, 2011

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Busch suspended over Truck clash

Kyle Busch has been suspended from the NASCAR Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series events at Texas Motor Speedway following an on-track incident in the early laps of Friday’s Truck race.

Roush dominates Texas qualifying

November 4th, 2011

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Roush dominates Texas qualifying

Greg Biffle beat team-mate David Ragan by a thousandth of a second to claim his third NASCAR Sprint Cup pole position of the season as Roush Fenway Racing dominated Friday’s session at Texas Motor Speedway. Biffle had edged Chase leader Carl Edwards earlier in practice and was able to later up his speed with a faster lap in qualifying, setting a time of 27.873 seconds at an average speed of 193.736 mph, which stands as the fastest pole position of the 2011 season. His team-mate Ragan had been on provisional pole until getting beaten by the slightest margin by Biffle, while Matt Kenseth – the most recent winner at the track – completed a top-three sweep by the team

Patrick picks Daytona for Cup debut

November 4th, 2011

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Patrick picks Daytona for Cup debut

Danica Patrick will enter the 2012 Daytona 500 as part of a 10-race NASCAR Sprint Cup schedule, Stewart Haas Racing announced on Friday. The former IndyCar star, who is switching full time to NASCAR, will drive the #10 Chevrolet for Stewart Haas Racing in next year’s season-opening event, attempting to make the field for what would be her first Cup outing

Martin to join MWR for part-seasons

November 4th, 2011

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Martin to join MWR for part-seasons

Mark Martin will drive partial NASCAR Sprint Cup seasons for Michael Waltrip Racing for the next two years. The 52-year-old veteran has signed a deal to drive the team’s #00 Toyota in 25 races each year in 2012 and ’13, replacing David Reutimann – who had been at the wheel of the car since 2007, winning the team’s only two races thus far

Reutimann and Waltrip part ways

November 3rd, 2011

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Reutimann and Waltrip part ways

David Reutimann will not return to Michael Waltrip Racing in 2012, amid reports linking Mark Martin with a seat at the team. Reutimann, 41, who has been with the team since its debut season in the NASCAR Sprint Cup in 2007, will leave the squad after driving the #00 Toyota in the last three races of the year.

Meyn, Talman Top Thompson; Salvatore Takes Title

by Tim Terry on November 1st, 2011

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While Brandon Salvatore virtually wrapped-up the 2011 Season 3 NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modified Series (NiTMS) championship weeks ago, the cars and stars of the series rolled into Thompson International Speedway for Week Twelve to officially crown the champion and complete their season with one final round. When all the online racing was complete in the finale, it was Taylor Meyn who stood tall with the overall victory of the week, besting 62 other sim racers on the high banks of Thompson. Meyn wasn’t the only one with an impressive performance though as Troy Talman took away four wins in four starts in Round Twelve. One of those included a massive, 3862 Strength of Field (sof) race on the final day of the NiTMS week on Wednesday. Talman was in need [...]

Rick Hendrick survives plane crash

November 1st, 2011

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Rick Hendrick survives plane crash

NASCAR team owner Rick Hendrick and his wife Linda escaped serious injury after a technical failure caused the jet they were flying in to run off the runway when landing at Key West, Florida. According to a report from the local Sheriff, a Gulfstream 150 jet crash landed at the Key West airport Monday evening at 7:45 p.m. with the pilot and co-pilot radioing there were no brakes upon landing

Stewart snatches win from Johnson

October 31st, 2011

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Stewart snatches win from Johnson

Tony Stewart claimed his third NASCAR Sprint Cup win of the season at Martinsville by passing Jimmie Johnson on the penultimate lap, and jumped back up to second in the Chase standings. The two-time champion rebounded from fighting to remain on the lead lap early on and then from an unscheduled pitstop for a suspected puncture to be in position to contend for victory following a two-tyre pitstop during a late caution