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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.

No action over Menard incident

September 17th, 2011

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No action over Menard incident

Paul Menard and his Richard Childress Racing team look set to escape punishment after NASCAR reviewed evidence from Menard’s spin in the closing laps of last week’s race at Richmond. NASCAR president Mike Helton told reporters at Chicagoland Speedway on Friday that officials would have a second look at the incident amid rivals’ suspicions that Menard had spun intentionally to cause a caution a few laps from the end, as his RCR team-mate Kevin Harvick was struggling to beat Jeff Gordon to victory. Gordon had taken the lead from Harvick right before the caution waved 15 laps from the finish at Richmond, when the RCR driver struggling with worn rear tyres

Kenseth starts Chase from pole

September 17th, 2011

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Kenseth starts Chase from pole

Matt Kenseth claimed his second pole position of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season in qualifying for Sunday’s opening Chase round at Chicagoland Speedway. The Roush Fenway Racing driver confirmed the recent upturn in his qualifying form by posting a fastest lap of 29.469 seconds at an average speed of 183.243 mph, which bumped his team-mate Greg Biffle from pole and then held up as the benchmark for the rest of the session. Kenseth, who starts the Chase from fourth place as the top ranked Ford driver, has now qualified among the top 10 nine times this season but most encouragingly, his last six top-10 starts have resulted in equally solid finishes

Bowyer in talks with Waltrip’s team

September 17th, 2011

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Bowyer in talks with Waltrip’s team

Michael Waltrip says his team has held ‘productive talks’ with Clint Bowyer as the Richard Childress Racing driver works to secure a race seat for 2012. Bowyer looks set for a future elsewhere as negotiations with RCR seem to have hit a stumbling block. Waltrip has now revealed publicly that his team has held conversations with the driver and a sponsor for next season

NASCAR to investigate Menard, RCR

September 16th, 2011

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NASCAR to investigate Menard, RCR

Paul Menard and his Richard Childress Racing team are under investigation from NASCAR amid allegations that they deliberately caused a caution last week at Richmond in an attempt to help Menard’s team-mate Kevin Harvick win the race. Suspicions have arisen from the radio communication between Menard and his team during the closing laps of last Saturday’s race, where the RCR driver was continuously informed about the battle for lead between his team-mate Harvick and rival Jeff Gordon, while Menard was running several laps down after an incident involving Matt Kenseth caused damage to his car

Busch vows to put Johnson row behind

September 15th, 2011

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Busch vows to put Johnson row behind

Kurt Busch hopes to keep his cool in this year’s Chase and put his feud with Jimmie Johnson to rest as he vows to make the most of his chance of winning a second Sprint Cup title this year. Last weekend at Richmond, Busch and the reigning champion clashed on the track twice, igniting once again a feud that has been on for a couple of years already. Earlier this season they had a heated discussion following a race at Pocono, after they made contact on the track while battling for position in the closing laps.

Harvick wins as Chase field set

September 11th, 2011

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Harvick wins as Chase field set

Kevin Harvick fended off Carl Edwards to claim his fourth NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win of the season while Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr and Denny Hamlin claimed the final Chase spots in an incident-filled race at Richmond. Harvick had made the headlines earlier this week after announcing he is set to shut down the shop where his Truck and Nationwide Series team have operated for the past few seasons but on Saturday night he hit a high by winning the final race of the regular season, placing him tied in the Chase lead with Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch. Richard Childress Racing driver Harvick was strong from the early running, leading 122 of the first 200 laps, but then seemed to have lost his momentum into the second half of the race as Roush Fenway’s Carl Edwards suddenly became the benchmark

Earnhardt relaxed about Chase

September 10th, 2011

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Earnhardt relaxed about Chase

Dale Earnhardt Jr says he is not putting himself under pressure to return to the Chase this year but believes his team to be good enough to make it into the play-off when the field is set at Richmond tonight. The Hendrick Motorsports driver arrives at the final race of the regular season needing a 20th place finish or better to secure a place in the championship battle, regardless of his rivals’ results. Earnhardt has missed the play-off for the past two seasons, but despite not winning thus far in 2011 he has been able to remain in the top 10 in the standings for most of the season and is on the verge of entering the Chase by virtue of his consistency

Hamlin confident of Chase spot

September 10th, 2011

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Hamlin confident of Chase spot

Denny Hamlin says he feels in control of his chances of making this year’s Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup title as he provisionally holds the final wildcard entry into the play-off heading into the deciding race. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver enters Saturday night’s event at Richmond with a win to his name and 12th in the points standings, 11 points ahead of his closest rival, Richard Petty’s AJ Allmendinger – who does not have a victory this year and thus is not eligible for a wildcard.

Bowyer worried about RCR future

September 10th, 2011

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Bowyer worried about RCR future

Clint Bowyer might not return to Richard Childress Racing in 2012, and admits it would be “heartbreaking” to leave the team at the end of the season. Bowyer, a Chase contender in three out of his five full seasons in the Sprint Cup Series, has yet to secure a deal for next year despite indicating a few weeks ago that a new multi-year agreement with his team was close to being set in stone. However, talks over the specifics of the deal have not progressed as expected and the continuity of their relationship looks now uncertain.

Johnson: Gordon is a title threat

September 10th, 2011

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Johnson: Gordon is a title threat

Jimmie Johnson believes his Hendrick Motorsports team-mate Jeff Gordon is a serious championship threat, following Gordon’s third win of the season in the last round at Atlanta. Four-time series champion Gordon has become a stronger contender in the last few weeks, scoring consistent finishes and securing a spot in the Chase two weeks ago by virtue of his tally of wins, which is second only to Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch thus far during the year. Johnson’s team has seen a reshuffle ahead of this season after long-time crew chief Steve Letarte was moved to work alongside team-mate Dale Earnhardt Jr, while Alan Gustafson, who previously worked with Mark Martin at Hendrick when he finished runner-up in the 2009 Chase, is now calling the shots on Gordon’s #24 team.

Reutimann on pole at Richmond

September 10th, 2011

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Reutimann on pole at Richmond

David Reutimann claimed his fourth NASCAR Sprint Cup career pole in qualifying for Saturday’s race at Richmond. The Michael Waltrip Racing driver knocked Earnhardt Ganassi’s Jamie McMurray from provisional pole with a best time of 21.196 seconds at an average speed of 127.383 mph. Reutimann had been among the top 10 in the first practice, then was not one of the top runners in the final session of the day, but despite that his benchmark went unbeaten through to the end of qualifying.

Gordon feeling in best shape ever

September 8th, 2011

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Gordon feeling in best shape ever

Jeff Gordon believes to be in the best shape ever ahead of the Chase for the championship, following his third win of the season at Atlanta. The four-time Sprint Cup series champion dominated for most of the running last Tuesday in the rain-delayed event but had to fend off a charging Jimmie Johnson in the closing laps, finally keeping him at bay to secure three more bonus points towards his Chase seeding

Gordon beats Johnson in epic finish

September 6th, 2011

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Gordon beats Johnson in epic finish

Jeff Gordon held off reigning champion Jimmie Johnson to claim his 85th Sprint Cup Series career victory in a rain-delayed event at Atlanta. The four-time champion is now in sole possession of third place in the all-time winners list, with only legends Richard Petty and David Pearson ahead of him, thanks to his third victory of the season.

Atlanta race postponed to Tuesday

September 5th, 2011

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Atlanta race postponed to Tuesday

Rain has forced NASCAR officials to postpone round 26 of the Sprint Cup Series at Atlanta until Tuesday morning. Following two days of dry weather at the venue, fears of Tropical Storm Lee bringing proceedings to a halt on race day materialised a few hours before the event.

Kahne secures Atlanta pole

September 3rd, 2011

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Kahne secures Atlanta pole

Kasey Kahne claimed his second pole position of the season in qualifying for Sunday night’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Atlanta, the penultimate round ahead of the Chase. The Red Bull Racing driver beat the previous benchmark of the session set by Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch at the wheel of his #4 Toyota with a lap of 29.775 seconds at an average speed of 186.196 mph. Richard Childress Racing’s Clint Bowyer, who needs a strong result on Sunday in order to remain in the hunt for a Chase spot, got closest to Kahne’s time, finishing less than half a tenth of a second adrift to lock out a front row spot.

Six drivers now safely in Chase

September 3rd, 2011

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Six drivers now safely in Chase

Six drivers are already set to be title contenders in NASCAR’s Chase for the Sprint Cup, with at least another two possibly securing a place in the play-off this weekend at Atlanta. Joe Gibbs Racing’s Kyle Busch, the current points leader, was the first to lock himself in the Chase with his fourth win of the season two weeks ago at Michigan, while reigning champion Jimmie Johnson, Roush Fenway’s Carl Edwards and Matt Kenseth also secured a spot in the title battle with strong finishes last weekend at Bristol.

Stewart not panicking over Chase

September 3rd, 2011

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Stewart not panicking over Chase

Tony Stewart hopes two solid weekends can keep him in Chase contention as he continues to look for his first NASCAR Sprint Cup win of the season and his position in the standings comes under growing threat. Entering this weekend’s race at Atlanta, the penultimate event before the play-off field is set, the two-time Cup champion ranks 10th in the standings, 21 points ahead of Penske’s Brad Keselowski, who is on a charge that has seen him move up from outside the top 20 to almost breaking inside the top 10 in points in a matter of four weeks

Earnhardt hopes to fulfil potential

September 3rd, 2011

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Earnhardt hopes to fulfil potential

Dale Earnhardt Jr has admitted his performance at Hendrick Motorsports so far has not been good enough, but hopes to fulfil his potential with the leading NASCAR Sprint Cup outfit after committing to it until 2017.

Earnhardt stays at Hendrick until ’17

September 1st, 2011

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Earnhardt stays at Hendrick until ’17

Dale Earnhardt Jr will remain at Hendrick Motorsports until 2017, having signed a five-year extension with the leading NASCAR Sprint Cup outfit. Although Earnhardt’s current contract expires at the end of next year, NASCAR’s most popular driver will continue his relationship with Hendrick Motorsports, which is in its fourth year already. Earnhardt left Dale Earnhardt Inc.

Boxing Week

by Jameson Spies on September 1st, 2011

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racing games

Competitors in the NASCAR iRacing Class A Series put their boxing gloves on and did battle Week Four at Bristol Motor Speedway. While some sim racers battled the tricky track more than their competition, others were able to score a knock-out and tally big points at the half-mile oval. With many NASCAR iRacing Series World Championship drivers focusing on their dance with Dover the following week, it was the time to shine for Class A drivers at Bristol. It showed, as twenty-two of the top twenty-five overall drivers on the week had a blue stripe on their iRacing license. Harrison Donovan was a pre-season favorite to lead the charge into the NASCAR iRacing Pro Series, but to this point has not done much to reinforce many peoples predictions. Donovan reminded [...]