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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.

Grosjean tops first GP2 practice

July 29th, 2011

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Grosjean tops first GP2 practice

Romain Grosjean kicked off the GP2 action at the Hungaroring by topping free practice. The championship leader set his session-topping time surprisingly early

Aleshin back at Carlin in Hungary

July 28th, 2011

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Aleshin back at Carlin in Hungary

Mikhail Aleshin will return to GP2 with Carlin at the Hungaroring this weekend. The 24-year-old Russian has missed the last four rounds of the championship, but will now return to partner team regular Max Chilton at the British squad

Filippi to continue with Coloni

July 27th, 2011

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Filippi to continue with Coloni

Luca Filippi will continue with the Coloni squad for this weekend’s GP2 round at the Hungaroring. The Italian made the switch from Super Nova to Coloni on a one-off basis for the last round at the Nurburgring and took an impressive victory in the feature race to lift himself from 16th to eighth in the championship.

Bianchi says sorry for mistake

July 25th, 2011

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Bianchi says sorry for mistake

Jules Bianchi has apologised to his ART GP2 team for the mistake which cost him victory at the Nurburgring on Sunday. The Ferrari junior driver led from lap two until the end of the penultimate lap, when he put a wheel on a white line under braking for the chicane and got out of shape. That allowed Romain Grosjean to pass him into the final corner, and Bianchi had to settle for second.

Grosjean capitalises on Bianchi error

July 24th, 2011

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Romain Grosjean capitalised on a Jules Bianchi error with just over a lap remaining to steal victory in the second GP2 race at the Nurburgring.

Filippi celebrates century with a win

July 23rd, 2011

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Filippi celebrates century with a win

Luca Filippi celebrated his 100th start in the GP2 Series by winning at the Nurburgring on Saturday. The category veteran, who switched to Coloni this weekend after being replaced at Super Nova by Adam Carroll, jumped early race leader Charles Pic during the pitstops and never looked back from there

Grosjean: Vietoris cost me pole chance

July 23rd, 2011

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Grosjean: Vietoris cost me pole chance

Romain Grosjean has hit out at Christian Vietoris for costing him pole position for the first GP2 race of the weekend at the Nurburgring.

Pic beats Filippi to GP2 pole

July 22nd, 2011

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Pic beats Filippi to GP2 pole

Charles Pic came out on top of a three-way fight to take pole position for the first GP2 race of the weekend at the Nurburgring.

Grosjean leads Nurburgring practice

July 22nd, 2011

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Romain Grosjean laid down a marker for the weekend by dominating the GP2 free practice session at the Nurburgring. The championship leader set the pace for the majority of the session, and the smallest his gap over the field ever got down to was the 0.7-second advantage he enjoyed over Dani Clos (Racing Engineering) when the Spaniard went second in the closing stages. The DAMS driver had established a one-second gap back to his pursuers heading towards the middle of the 30-minute session, as he and ART’s Jules Bianchi set the pace.

Carroll joins Super Nova

July 20th, 2011

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Carroll joins Super Nova

Adam Carroll will make his first GP2 start for three years at the Nurburgring this weekend after joining Super Nova Racing. He replaces Luca Filippi, who has switched to the rival Coloni squad for the German Grand Prix support round.

Filippi switches to Coloni

July 20th, 2011

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Filippi switches to Coloni

Luca Filippi has switched from Super Nova to Coloni in time for this weekend’s GP2 round at the Nurburgring. The series veteran, who will make his 100th GP2 start in Germany, replaces Kevin Ceccon, who wants to focus on his Auto GP commitments instead. “I’m happy that a car that should have been driven by Davide Rigon, and that after his injury passed on to Kevin Ceccon, will be driven again by an Italian driver,” said team boss Paolo Coloni.

GP3 graduates to get GP2 Final prize

July 15th, 2011

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GP3 graduates to get GP2 Final prize

Pirelli will give an additional prize payout to the highest-placed GP3 graduates finishing in the points in the one-off GP2 Final event in Abu Dhabi in November. GP2 announced earlier this week that it would merge its Asia series into the main championship, with a single standalone final event alongside the Formula 1 season finale this season. With many GP3 graduates likely to step up to the senior championship for the meeting, Pirelli will offer 15,000 euros to the 2011 GP3 driver with the best finish in the event and 10,000 euros to the second-best – provided both finish within the points-scoring positions (top eight in race one, top six in race two).

GP2 confirms Asia Series merger

July 12th, 2011

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GP2 confirms Asia Series merger

The GP2 Series and GP2 Asia Series will be merged from 2012 onwards, as predicted by AUTOSPORT in May. Series CEO Bruno Michel announced that the two series would be combined, creating a longer championship which will include non-European rounds.

Grosjean charges to sprint race win

July 10th, 2011

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Grosjean charges to sprint race win

Romain Grosjean cemented his place at the top of the GP2 standings with a dominant victory in race two at Silverstone.

Bianchi wins Silverstone thriller

July 9th, 2011

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Bianchi wins Silverstone thriller

Jules Bianchi came out on top in a thrilling scrap with Christian Vietoris to take his first GP2 win of the season at Silverstone. ART driver Bianchi cruised into a comfortable lead once the race got underway in wet conditions after three laps behind the safety car. His lead was over seven seconds when the pitstops got underway, with drivers coming in to change onto slick tyres as the track dried rapidly.

Bianchi takes wet Silverstone pole

July 8th, 2011

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Bianchi takes wet Silverstone pole

Jules Bianchi took pole position for the first GP2 race of the weekend in a rain-hit qualifying at Silverstone. The only meaningful laps came in the first part of the session, as heavy rain soaked the track just nine minutes in. ART driver Bianchi had poached top spot from championship leader Romain Grosjean (DAMS) just two minutes earlier, and shortly before the rain Carlin’s Alvaro Parente had taken the second front row slot

Bird quickest in GP2 practice

July 8th, 2011

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Sam Bird topped the GP2 free practice session at Silverstone on Friday morning, edging championship leader Romain Grosjean.

Grosjean gets penalty for crash

June 27th, 2011

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Grosjean gets penalty for crash

GP2 championship leader Romain Grosjean has been handed a 10-place grid penalty for the next round of the series at Silverstone. The Frenchman has been given the penalty for clashing with Sam Bird and Davide Valsecchi in the braking zone for Turn 2 a the start of Sunday’s sprint race in Valencia. The race one winner had started eighth, and he ran into the back of Bird and hit the right hand side of Valsecchi’s car as he tried to go between them into the first braking zone

Gutierrez takes first GP2 win

June 26th, 2011

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Gutierrez takes first GP2 win

Esteban Gutierrez took his maiden GP2 victory in dominant fashion in the sprint race on the streets of Valencia. The ART driver and Sauber Formula 1 reserve pounced on a mistake by polesitter Josef Kral (Arden) under braking for Turn 2 at a restart to take the lead

Bianchi among feature race penalties

June 25th, 2011

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Bianchi among feature race penalties

Jules Bianchi’s nightmare GP2 season has taken another hit after the Frenchman was one of four drivers given 10-place grid penalties for the sprint race in Valencia. ART driver Bianchi retired from the race at the start following a high-speed collision with Marcus Ericsson. Race officials deemed that the incident was Bianchi’s fault after he swerved across from the outside of the track into the path of Ericsson in the sweeping first corner