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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.
  • 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.

Portimao GP2 round called-off

May 8th, 2010

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GP2 organisers announced on Saturday that the Portimao round of this year’s championship has been cancelled. The Portuguese event was scheduled for the weekend of 19-20 June

Bianchi claims debut pole at Circuit de Catalunya

May 7th, 2010

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Jules Bianchi will start from pole for tomorrow’s GP2 Series season-opener in Barcelona after a strong performance in this afternoon’s qualifying session.

Rossi to race at Monaco in FR3.5

May 7th, 2010

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ART GP3 racer Alexander Rossi will make his Formula Renault 3.5 debut with Czech team ISR at Monaco next weekend. The American will take the seat vacated by the winner of the most recent event at Spa-Francorchamps, Esteban Guerrieri

Bird fastest in opening GP2 practice

May 7th, 2010

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GP2 Series rookies have taken the early bragging rights in the first official outing of the new season, with ART’s Sam Bird edging out Arden’s Charles Pic to top today’s practice session in Barcelona.

Briatore says F1 needs to be fixed

May 4th, 2010

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Briatore says F1 needs to be fixed

Formula 1 does not have a bright future if it continues as it is now, according to former Renault team boss Flavio Briatore. The Italian, who left Formula 1 following the 2008 Singapore GP scandal, says the sports needs fixing, especially to offer a better show and reduce costs for the teams. “F1 is very confused at the moment, there will surely be some changes.

Spanish Grand Prix preview quotes: Virgin Racing

May 3rd, 2010

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Timo Glock: The last few weeks haven’t exactly gone according to plan thanks to the Icelandic volcano, but what this has enabled us to do is draw a line under the disappointment of Shanghai and focus on better things ahead. We have taken a good hard look at the first four races and now have a very clear picture of where things have gone well for us and where we need to improve

Grosjean determined to return to F1

May 2nd, 2010

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Grosjean determined to return to F1

Former Renault Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean is still optimistic about his chances of getting back into grand prix racing even though he has switched to the new FIA GT1 World Championship this year. Grosjean had an unsuccessful half-season with Renault in F1 in 2009, stepping up from GP2 in the wake of Nelson Piquet’s dismissal, but struggling to make an impact with no testing, amid the team’s crisis following the Singapore scandal revelations, and with Renault focusing its development efforts on the 2010 car.

Aleshin takes lights to flag win at Spa

May 1st, 2010

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Mikhail Aleshin claimed his second Formula Renault 3.5 victory of the season with a convincing display from pole position at Spa-Francorchamps. The only man able to live with the Russian’s pace was Tech 1 Racing’s Brendon Hartley, but an enthralling battle for the lead ended when the Kiwi’s machine ground to a halt on lap 16.

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