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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.

Pic takes Monza GP2 pole

September 9th, 2011

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Pic takes Monza GP2 pole

Addax driver Charles Pic beat Coloni’s Luca Filippi to GP2 pole position at Monza, while the two drivers leading the fight for second in the championship could only make the 10th row of the grid. The front row men took up those positions early in the session, and then remained at the top of the pile as very few drivers improved on their second sets of tyres

Filippi sets early pace at Monza

September 9th, 2011

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Luca Filippi took the early initiative in the battle for runner-up in GP2 by topping free practice at Monza.

Parente returns to Carlin for Monza

September 7th, 2011

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Parente returns to Carlin for Monza

Alvaro Parente will return to GP2 this weekend at Monza, where he will be back at the Carlin team replacing Mikhail Aleshin once more. The Portuguese driver had missed the last two rounds of the championship, having last raced for the team in Germany in place of Russian Aleshin

Richelmi to deputise for Coletti

September 3rd, 2011

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Richelmi to deputise for Coletti

Stephane Richelmi will make his GP2 Series debut at Monza next weekend having been drafted in by Trident to replace the injured Stefano Coletti. The 21-year-old Monagasque, who is currently sixth in the Formula Renault 3.5 standings with Draco, will be slotted in alongside Rodolfo Gonzalez after Coletti suffered back injuries in a crash at Spa a week ago.

Filippi charges to Spa race two win

August 28th, 2011

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Luca Filippi won a thrilling second GP2 race of the weekend at Spa. The Italian worked his way from fifth to second in the opening six laps, picking off Dani Clos, Fairuz Fauzy and the fast-starting (11th to second) Johnny Cecotto Jr with moves at Les Combes. He was making inroads into Josef Kral’s lead when the safety car came out, after Fabio Leimer (Rapax) had a nasty looking crash at Eau Rouge

Coletti to miss rest of season

August 27th, 2011

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Coletti to miss rest of season

Stefano Coletti will miss the rest of the GP2 season after it was confirmed he sustained two compression fractures in his back in a crash during race one at Spa. The Trident driver ran over the back of Mikhail Aleshin’s Carlin car as the Russian slowed when his engine went into safe mode due to running at reduced speed as the safety car had just been deployed

Fauzy loses Spa sprint race pole

August 27th, 2011

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Fauzy loses Spa sprint race pole

Fairuz Fauzy and Josef Kral have had their finishing positions from Sautrday’s GP2 race swapped, giving the latter pole position for the second race of the weekend at Spa.

Grosjean pays tribute to DAMS

August 27th, 2011

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Grosjean pays tribute to DAMS

Romain Grosjean says he has taken huge satisfaction from helping DAMS win its first GP2 Series title this year. The Frenchman sealed the crown at Spa with three races to go, mainly thanks to a dominant middle stretch of the season

Coletti hospitalised after Spa crash

August 27th, 2011

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Coletti hospitalised after Spa crash

Stefano Coletti has been taken to hospital with back injuries following his crash in the first GP2 race of the weekend at Spa.

Grosjean takes title as Vietoris wins

August 27th, 2011

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Christian Vietoris won the first GP2 race of the Spa weekend, while Romain Grosjean sealed the championship with third place.

Pic demoted to back of GP2 grid

August 27th, 2011

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Pic demoted to back of GP2 grid

Charles Pic has been put to the back of the grid for the first GP2 race of the weekend at Spa. The Frenchman qualified third in Friday’s session, where he broke down out on track in the closing stages. Following post-qualifying scrutineering, it was found that the Addax car did not have enough fuel left in it to give the sample required by the stewards

Vietoris keeps Spa GP2 pole

August 26th, 2011

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Vietoris keeps Spa GP2 pole

Christian Vietoris has kept his GP2 pole position at Spa despite setting a personal best sector time under yellow flags on his fastest lap. Vietoris took pole by 1.4 seconds in Friday afternoon’s rain-hit session.

Vietoris takes dominant Spa pole

August 26th, 2011

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Christian Vietoris claimed pole position by a massive 1.4 seconds in a wet GP2 qualifying session at Spa on Friday. The Racing Engineering driver was the early pacesetter in the session, and he remained in the thick of the fight for pole throughout. In the final minute of qualifying he knocked Luca Filippi (Coloni) off the top spot, but his pole position could be in doubt as yellow flags were waving at Blanchimont when he set his fastest lap.

Grosjean tops Spa GP2 practice

August 26th, 2011

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Romain Grosjean made the perfect start to the weekend where he can seal the GP2 championship by topping free practice at Spa on Friday. The DAMS driver moved to the top of the times 12 minutes into the session, when the track was predominantly dry

Hartley returns to GP2 with Ocean

August 25th, 2011

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Hartley returns to GP2 with Ocean

Brendon Hartley will return to the GP2 Series at Spa this weekend with the Ocean Racing Team.

Filippi gets another race with Coloni

August 19th, 2011

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Filippi gets another race with Coloni

Luca Filippi will stay on with Coloni for the next GP2 event at Spa after his recent success with the Italian squad. Filippi made what was initially planned as a one-off move from former team Super Nova for the Nurburgring, and ended up winning the feature race

Grosjean: No rush to seal title at Spa

August 2nd, 2011

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Grosjean: No rush to seal title at Spa

GP2 championship leader Romain Grosjean claims he is not thinking about sealing the title when the series resumes at Spa later this month. The DAMS driver heads into the summer break with a commanding 25-point lead over Giedo van der Garde with just two race weekends remaining in the season

Coletti wins incredible wet/dry race

July 31st, 2011

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Stefano Coletti charged from 21st on the grid to win a thrilling GP2 race in changeable conditions at the Hungaroring. The Trident driver was one of the few in the field to start the race on slicks, and he was up to 12th once the majority of the field switched from wet tyres. Just as everyone came in for tyres the safety car was deployed as Max Chilton crashed exiting Turn 2.

Grosjean wins at Hungaroring

July 30th, 2011

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Grosjean wins at Hungaroring

Romain Grosjean took his fifth GP2 win of the season at the Hungaroring after race-long leader Marcus Ericsson was given a drive-through penalty in the closing stages. Ericsson had led the race from the first lap after jumping front row starters Luiz Razia and Luca Filippi in the race to Turn 1. From there the iSport driver controlled the race while AirAsia driver Razia kept third-placed Grosjean at bay in the opening stint.

Razia takes GP2 pole in Hungary

July 29th, 2011

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Razia takes GP2 pole in Hungary

Luiz Razia edged Luca Filippi to take pole position for the first GP2 race of the weekend at the Hungaroring – a first for both Razia and his AirAsia team. The Brazilian was in contention for the lead places throughout the session, and he finally moved into top spot with three minutes remaining. Filippi (Coloni), who held top spot for more than 10 minutes before that, appeared on course to respond when he set the best time in the first sector on his final flying lap.