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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.

Coletti quickest on return to Spa

April 30th, 2010

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Coletti quickest on return to Spa

Stefano Coletti showed he was completely unfazed by his huge GP2 crash at Spa-Francorchamps last August by setting the fastest time in Formula Renault 3.5 practice on his return to the Belgian venue. The Monegasque former Formula 3 Euro Series race winner eclipsed Fortec driver Sten Pentus by 0.054 seconds at the top the timesheets, just eight months after sustaining compressed vertebrae and heavy bruising when his Durango car failed to negotiate Spa’s Eau Rouge corner

Spanish Grand Prix preview quotes: Williams

April 30th, 2010

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Rubens Barrichello: Most of the drivers know Barcelona inside out. It’s a great track, particularly for qualifying and that can really be the determining factor of the weekend. The circuit has a combination of high and low speed sectors but the priority is to achieve good speed going into the corners, rather than focusing on the long straight, so you have to have a strong aerodynamic set-up.

Razia to make British F3 debut

April 29th, 2010

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Razia to make British F3 debut

Virgin Racing F1 test driver Luiz Razia will make his British F3 debut at Silverstone this weekend. The 21-year-old Brazilian, a former South American F3 champion and race winner in GP2, will pilot a Team West-Tec Dallara Mugen-Honda in the national class. Team West-Tec’s John Miller said: “It’s purely a one-off race outing at the moment, although Luiz has a continuing test programme with us.

Filippi wins first Auto GP race at Brno

April 25th, 2010

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GP2 veteran Luca Filippi scored the first ever Auto GP win in commanding style at Brno. The Euronova driver made his mandatory pitstop early on, and strung together a series of fast laps on a clear track. When long-time leader Fabio Onidi (Lazarus) finally made his stop, Filippi was left with a clear lead he held to the flag

Reid takes inaugural Auto GP pole

April 25th, 2010

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Reid takes inaugural Auto GP pole

Jonny Reid will start from pole position for the inaugural Auto GP event at Brno in the Czech Republic today. The former A1GP frontrunner has returned to single-seater racing in the new championship for the first time since competing in Indy Lights in 2008, having most recently raced Porsches. Reid made the best of the warm qualifying conditions – very different to the wind that had affected testing and practice – to put his Super Nova car on pole ahead of Lazarus driver Fabio Onidi, who had been a title contender in Auto GP’s forerunner Euroseries 3000

Nakajima tops test on Arena circuit

April 21st, 2010

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Daisuke Nakajima set the fastest time of Wednesday’s British Formula 3 test on Silverstone’s new Arena GP layout. The Raikkonen Robertson driver’s best effort of the day was a tenth of a second quicker than championship leader Jean-Eric Vergne. Vergne’s Carlin team-mate James Calado was third quickest, and was impressed by the new section of track

Zaugg signs up for Auto GP

April 21st, 2010

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Adrian Zaugg has become the latest driver to sign up for the fledgling Auto GP championship. The 23-year-old Singapore-born South African will partner Julian Leal in the Trident Racing team for the season opener at Brno this weekend. Zaugg has previously raced for the team in the 2009/10 GP2 Asia series, scoring a point in the first race of the Bahrain round in February.

Filippi joins Auto GP field

April 19th, 2010

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Filippi joins Auto GP field

Luca Filippi is the latest GP2 driver to sign up for this season’s Auto GP championship. The 25-year-old Italian raced in the series from 2006-’09, winning two races with a best result of fourth in the ’07 standings, and was also a test driver for the Honda F1 team in ’08. He will race in Auto GP for the Italian-based Euronova team, managed by former F1 driver Vincenzo Sospiri, who he raced for in Formula Renault back in 2003-’04

Yamamoto gets Hispania test deal

April 17th, 2010

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Yamamoto gets Hispania test deal

Former Super Aguri and Spyker driver Sakon Yamamoto has taken on a test and reserve role with the new Hispania team for the 2010 season. The deal will see Yamamoto taking part in Friday practice sessions at grands prix weekends.

Pantano to race in Auto GP

April 12th, 2010

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Giorgio Pantano will return to sub-Formula 1 single-seater racing again in 2010, with Super Nova in Auto GP. The 31-year-old Italian raced for Jordan in F1 in 2004 but returned to GP2 the following season. He eventually won the GP2 title in ’08 but was still unable to break back into F1

Mortara wins Euro Series opener

April 10th, 2010

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Mortara wins Euro Series opener

Edoardo Mortara won the opening F3 Euro Series race of the season at Paul Ricard on Saturday, leading home Marco Wittmann for a Signature one-two. Series returnee Mortara leapt from fifth to second on the opening lap, and then chased rookie pole-sitter Daniel Juncadella in the early stages before drafting past the Spaniard on lap four. The ex-GP2 racer had opened out a two-second lead by the end of that lap, but that was as big as his advantage would be as Wittmann moved into second on lap five

D’Ambrosio tops Barcelona test

April 8th, 2010

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D’Ambrosio tops Barcelona test

Jerome D’Ambrosio set the fastest time of the GP2 Series test at Barcelona on Thursday.

Durango announces 2011 F1 bid

April 7th, 2010

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Durango announces 2011 F1 bid

Former GP2 team Durango has announced that it is applying for the 13th slot in the Formula 1 field next season. The FIA has invited applications to take the world championship entry left vacant by the collapse of US F1′s F1 bid, and will also announce a reserve team.

Maldonado tops another GP2 test

April 7th, 2010

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Pastor Maldonado continued his excellent pre-season form by topping a fourth straight GP2 test at Barcelona on day one of this week’s three days of running. The Venezualen, who has switched back to the Rapax team – which he drove for in 2008 when it still operated under the Piquet title – this season, grabbed first place by 0.016 seconds over ART’s Sam Bird 15 minutes from the end of the afternoon session, as the track dried following a brief shower. Christian Vietories took third for Racing Engineering, ahead of Arden’s Charles Pic and Super Nova’s Marcus Ericsson, while early pacesetter Jules Bianchi dropped back to sixth in the second ART car.

Hulkenberg shrugs off poor start

April 2nd, 2010

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Hulkenberg shrugs off poor start

Nico Hulkenberg says the frustrations of his first two Formula 1 outings have been tempered by the fact that fellow countryman Sebastian Vettel had an equally tough time during his first full campaign.

Fauzy hopes Friday F1 run leads to more

April 1st, 2010

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Fauzy hopes Friday F1 run leads to more

Fairuz Fauzy hopes his Friday practice appearance for Lotus at Sepang tomorrow will be the first of many such runs this season – and that it will be a chance for him to showcase his ability. The Lotus reserve driver believes his participation in the opening session will be just as valuable than still being able to test during the season would have been. “I know it’s a bit difficult as we can’t test, but if there’s a chance to drive on Fridays, it’s better than nothing,” Fauzy told AUTOSPORT

Parente to Superleague with Porto

March 27th, 2010

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Parente to Superleague with Porto

Alvaro Parente will return to the Superleague Formula with FC Porto this year, having taken a victory for the team in a one-off appearance in Portugal last year. The GP2 frontrunner won the second Estoril race in 2009, and now intends to contest a full campaign with the Reid Motorsport-run squad. “As a fan, it’s a great honour for me to be able to defend my club colours in this championship,” Parente said

Berthon leads first FR3.5 session

March 26th, 2010

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Frenchman Nathanael Berthon set the pace for reigning teams’ champion Draco at the Formula Renault 3.5 Series’ final pre-season collective test at Motorland Aragon this morning. Pons driver Federico Leo ended the three and half hour session just 0.166 seconds adrift in second, but the improving Italian felt that he had missed an opportunity to take the top spot. “We completed our programme,” said Leo, “but I can’t say that I am happy with my time as I had two yellow flags after fitting new tyres

Grosjean makes World GT1 move

March 26th, 2010

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Grosjean makes World GT1 move

Former Renault Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean will return to racing in the new GT1 World Championship this year. The 23-year-old French/Swiss racer has signed to race a Ford for the Matech team alongside Thomas Mutsch. Grosjean takes the spot originally earmarked for Enrique Bernoldi before the Brazilian parted company with the team during testing.