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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.

Rockenfeller tops morning practice

August 7th, 2010

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Mike Rockenfeller led an Audi lockout of the top five places in the final DTM free practice session at the Nurburgring. The Team Phoenix driver moved to the top of the times with eight minutes remaining in the session, and his time was good enough to hold off last year’s winner Martin Tomczyk to the end

Spengler beats Audis in practice

August 6th, 2010

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DTM championship leader Bruno Spengler topped the first free practice session of the weekend for Mercedes, ahead of last year’s winner Martin Tomczyk. Audi is expected to have the upper hand this weekend, and it started well by getting four cars in the top five. However, Spengler trumped them all with his final lap of the session

BMW set to cut WTCC or GT for DTM

August 5th, 2010

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BMW set to cut WTCC or GT for DTM

BMW will withdraw from either sportscar racing or the World Touring Car Championship if it presses ahead with its proposed DTM entry in 2012, reveals this week’s AUTOSPORT magazine. The manufacturer’s motorsport boss Mario Theissen admitted to AUTOSPORT that it could not sustain three works programmes and it will have to decide its priorities. BMW still has not committed to the WTCC as a factory entry beyond the end of this season, while its GT project is so far confirmed to the end of 2011.

Adria added to DTM schedule

July 15th, 2010

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Adria added to DTM schedule

The DTM has added an October race at Adria to its 2010 calendar, raising the number of events this year to 11. Following the addition of a street race in Shanghai at the end of November, there would have been a six-week gap between the penultimate and final rounds. Adria has been pushing for a return to the DTM since its last race in 2004, and this year’s race will be the first in Italy since Mugello in ’08

Ralf Schumacher apologises to team

July 8th, 2010

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Ralf Schumacher apologises to team

Ralf Schumacher has apologised to his HWA-Mercedes team for his jump start from pole position at the Norisring on Sunday. The six-time grand prix winner took his maiden pole position at the weekend, and led the early laps comfortably from eventual winner Jamie Green. However, he was forced to serve a drive-through penalty after just seven laps for moving before the red lights went out.

Green takes another Norisring DTM win

July 4th, 2010

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Green takes another Norisring DTM win

Jamie Green took his third consecutive DTM victory at the Norisring after sustaining pressure from Mattias Ekstrom throughout the second half of the race. The Persson Mercedes driver inherited the lead in the early stages when pole-sitter Ralf Schumacher was penalised for a jump start.

Schumacher surprised by DTM pole

July 3rd, 2010

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Schumacher surprised by DTM pole

DTM pole-sitter Ralf Schumacher has admitted that he was only targeting a top 10 grid position heading into this afternoon’s qualifying session at the Norisring.

Ralf Schumacher takes first DTM pole at Norisring

July 3rd, 2010

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Ralf Schumacher takes first DTM pole at Norisring

Ralf Schumacher took his maiden DTM pole position in qualifying for this weekend’s race at the Norisring. The ex-grand prix driver shone throughout the session.

DTM to add stadium event in 2011

July 3rd, 2010

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DTM to add stadium event in 2011

The DTM will hold a Race of Champions-style knockout event in Munich’s Olympic Stadium next July, it was announced today. Series promoter the ITR revealed that a two-lane track will be laid out in the stadium, and a two-day exhibition knockout event will take place with the entire DTM grid taking part. The race format will include pitstops – with cars completing three laps of the track, then pitting, then racing for another three laps

Premat fastest in Norisring practice

July 3rd, 2010

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Alexandre Premat set the pace in the second DTM practice session of the weekend at the Norisring on Saturday morning. The Audi driver spent most of the session towards the top of the times, and he grabbed top spot from Mercedes’ Bruno Spengler with just 30 seconds to go. Spengler improved his time at the end but could not get back ahead of the Frenchman, while behind them Maro Engel’s Mercedes made it two older-spec cars in the top three

DTM upbeat about series future

July 2nd, 2010

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DTM upbeat about series future

DTM supremo Hans Werner Aufrecht is upbeat about the future of the series following several key meetings that took place at the Norisring today. The likelihood of BMW maintaining its intention to enter the series from 2012 took a step forward, as its motorsport director Mario Theissen took part in a meeting of the board of series promoter ITR for the first time.

Ekstrom leads Audi practice sweep at Norisring

July 2nd, 2010

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Mattias Ekstrom set the pace in DTM free practice at the Norisring, as Audi locked out the top four spots. The Ingolstadt-based manufacturer is attempting to win on the German street circuit for the first time since Laurent Aiello’s dramatic victory in 2002. It carried out an extensive simulation of the short track on a German airfield recently, as it did last year, and the signs so far suggest that it will give Mercedes a hard time as it did in 2009

Castrol Rankings: chance for di Resta

July 2nd, 2010

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Castrol Rankings: chance for di Resta

Paul di Resta could make a significant gain in the Castrol Rankings if he can break his winless streak in the DTM at the Norisring this weekend. The Force India F1 test driver currently lies 62nd, having made up nine places since the start of the season, and has high hopes of a victory at a track where his HWA Mercedes has not been defeated since 2002. A victory would probably promote the British driver to a position inside the top 50, and that could make him the DTM’s highest-ranked driver

Kolles Audi drivers hit by kit theft

June 12th, 2010

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Thieves struck the Kolles Audi motorhome overnight, taking clothing and equipment belonging to drivers Oliver Jarvis and Christian Bakkerud. Jarvis lost a crash helmet, two race suits, a HANS device, earplugs and two pairs of boots

Coulthard awarded an MBE

June 12th, 2010

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Coulthard awarded an MBE

David Coulthard has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. The Scot won 13 grands prix in a Formula 1 career that began when he was called up from the test driver role to take the late Ayrton Senna’s place at Williams in mid-1994. He switched to McLaren at the end of the following year, and became its longest-serving driver, as he stayed on board for the next nine seasons

Ekstrom gets NASCAR race chance

June 7th, 2010

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Ekstrom gets NASCAR race chance

Two-time DTM champion Mattias Ekstrom will race for the Red Bull team this month in the first road course event of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season at Sonoma. Following a successful test for the team at Virginia International Raceway on May 25, Red Bull confirmed on Monday that the Swede will drive the #83 car in the June 20 event.

Spengler denies di Resta at Lausitz DTM

June 6th, 2010

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Spengler denies di Resta at Lausitz DTM

Bruno Spengler took advantage of misfortune in the pits for Paul di Resta to take victory in the DTM race at Lausitz on Sunday.

Veteran drivers to assist DTM stewards

June 6th, 2010

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The DTM has announced that it will use veteran drivers as race consultants to the clerk of the course and stewards, starting with this weekend’s race at Lausitz. The move, which is similar to the system introduced by the FIA in Formula 1 this year, will be evaluated at the Lausitz and Norisring rounds. Ex-DTM driver Bernd Maylander will fulfill the role this weekend, and three-time grand prix winner Johnny Herbert – who has also worked as a Formula 1 steward this year – will do the same at the Norisring.

Interview with David Coulthard

June 5th, 2010

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Interview with David Coulthard

David Coulthard’s DTM switch got off to a low-key start in the opening rounds of the German-based touring car series, but at Lausitz on Saturday he became a top eight contender for the first time.

Schumacher (Ralf) puzzled by slow pace

June 5th, 2010

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Schumacher (Ralf) puzzled by slow pace

Ralf Schumacher says he was surprised by his struggles in DTM qualifying at Lausitz, and is not sure why he was so far off the pace. The six-time grand prix winner will start the third round of the season from 17th on the grid, leaving him on the back row while two of his HWA Mercedes team-mates (Paul di Resta and Bruno Spengler) share the front row of the grid. “The car behaved okay, I’m really surprised that I am that far back,” Schumacher told reporters on Saturday evening.