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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.

Molina heads Brands Hatch practice

September 2nd, 2011

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Molina heads Brands Hatch practice

Miguel Molina was a surprise pace-setter in the opening free practice session for this weekend’s DTM round at Brands Hatch. The Spaniard took his old-spec Abt Audi to the head of the timesheets with 12 minutes of the session remaining, his time of 44.776 seconds around the Indy circuit knocking Ralf Schumacher off the top spot.

Paffett: Qualifying key at Brands

September 2nd, 2011

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Paffett: Qualifying key at Brands

Gary Paffett believes that qualifying will be more important at Brands Hatch this weekend than at any other circuit on the DTM calendar.

Spengler plays down title talk

August 8th, 2011

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Spengler plays down title talk

Bruno Spengler has played down his chances of winning the DTM title this year, despite increasing his championship advantage with a runner-up spot at the Nurburgring last weekend.

Coulthard, Schumacher penalised

August 7th, 2011

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Coulthard, Schumacher penalised

David Coulthard and Ralf Schumacher have both been given suspended grid penalties after colliding during the Nurburgring DTM race. HWA Mercedes driver Schumacher pushed Coulthard off the track at Turn 1 on the second lap, and the pair then collided at the following corner as Coulthard attempted to retake the position

Ekstrom dominates at Nurburgring

August 7th, 2011

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Ekstrom dominates at Nurburgring

Mattias Ekstrom converted pole position into his first DTM victory of the year with a dominant performance at the Nurburgring. The Swede got away well when the red lights went out at the start and was never seriously challenged during the 49-lap race, which was horrendously short on action and overtaking

Ekstrom heads warm-up

August 7th, 2011

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Ekstrom heads warm-up

Mattias Ekstrom confirmed that his qualifying pace was no fluke as he went quickest in DTM warm-up at the Nurburgring. The Swede’s pace-setting 1m25.503s lap came midway through the session and was enough to put the Abt Audi driver on top by 0.155s from the old-spec Team Rosberg A4 of Filipe Albuquerque.

Ekstrom on Nurburgring pole

August 6th, 2011

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Ekstrom on Nurburgring pole

Mattias Ekstrom took his first DTM pole position for a year as he maximised the weather conditions in Nurburgring qualifying to beat Jamie Green to the top spot by over three seconds. The Abt Audi driver had been quickest in Q3 and was therefore the last man to attempt a lap time in the Q4 single lap shoot-out. While this would have been a slight advantage in dry conditions, it turned into a huge one at the Nurburgring as light rain abated in time for the Swede’s attempt

Ekstrom leads second practice

August 6th, 2011

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Ekstrom leads second practice

Mattias Ekstrom continued the Abt Audi squad’s strong start to the Nurburgring DTM weekend by setting the pace in the second free practice session at the German circuit. The two-time DTM champion’s table-topping time of 1m24.538s came with 10 minutes of the session to go and knocked his team-mate Mike Rockenfeller off the top spot by just over 0.1s

Rockenfeller sets practice pace

August 5th, 2011

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Rockenfeller sets practice pace

Mike Rockenfeller set the pace in the opening free practice session for this weekend’s DTM race at the Nurburgring.

Paffett wants Nurburgring podium

August 4th, 2011

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Paffett wants Nurburgring podium

Gary Paffett has targeted a podium finish at the very least at the Nurburgring this weekend to get his DTM season back on track. The HWA Mercedes driver began 2012 as one of the favourites to win the title after only missing out on last year’s crown by four points to his team-mate Paul di Resta. But a disappointing year, which began with a Hockenheim practice crash that caused him to start from the back of the grid, and featured a fourth place at Lausitz as his best result, have left the 30-year-old Briton down in ninth place in the points

Spengler wins Munich day two

July 17th, 2011

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Spengler wins Munich day two

Bruno Spengler triumphed on the second and final day of the DTM Show Event at Munich’s Olympic Stadium after his rival Edoardo Mortara crashed out. Mortara had beaten Spengler by 0.3s in Saturday’s final after the pair emerged as the top drivers from the Audi and Mercedes individual events. But on Sunday, it was Spengler who came out on top

Mortara takes Munich win

July 16th, 2011

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Mortara takes Munich win

Edoardo Mortara took a surprise victory on the opening day of the DTM’s Show Event in Munich’s Olympic Stadium. The Italian, who is competing in his rookie season in the championship, was superb in the day’s Superfinal – which was run over a pair of five-lap races, each including a mandatory pitstop. After losing the first race to Bruno Spengler by a hundredth of a second, Mortara took his old-spec Team Rosberg Audi to victory next time round and beat the Mercedes man by 0.3s overall

Audi releases 2012 car images

July 16th, 2011

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Audi releases 2012 car images

Audi has released drawings of the car it will base its DTM campaign around next year. The A5 DTM will be built to the championship’s new low-cost rules package and follows the trend set by series returnee BMW in using a coupe body rather than a saloon. “In 2012 new technical regulations will come into effect in the DTM,” said Head of Audi Sport Dr Wolfgang Ullrich

Priaulx confident of DTM success

July 15th, 2011

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Priaulx confident of DTM success

Andy Priaulx is confident that he can achieve success in the DTM, after being named as one of BMW’s drivers for its comeback year in 2012. The Brit has been a BMW factory driver since 2003 and had won three World Touring Car Championships and a European crown for the German manufacturer in that time. But Priaulx, whose efforts in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup this year has taken BMW into second place in the manufacturers’ standings in the GTE class, is not underestimating the effort that it will take to turn the new M3 DTM into a race-winning car

BMW launches new DTM car

July 15th, 2011

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BMW launches new DTM car

BMW has unveiled its M3 DTM concept car in Munich and named Andy Priaulx and Augusto Farfus as its first two drivers for its 2012 programme. The car, which is built to the championship’s all-new, low-cost technical regulations, will mark the German manufacturer’s return to the series after a 20-year absence.

Coulthard hoping for Munich advantage

July 15th, 2011

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Coulthard hoping for Munich advantage

David Coulthard believes that his Race of Champions experience will be an asset when he competes in the DTM’s first stadium event in Munich this weekend.

Munich DTM format unveiled

July 8th, 2011

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Munich DTM format unveiled

The DTM has unveiled the format of next weekend’s non-championship event at Munich’s Olympic Stadium. The Race of Champions-style event, which is being held in a bid to bring the DTM closer to the fans, will run over two days and feature a different competition each day

New BMW boss promises no changes

July 5th, 2011

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New BMW boss promises no changes

New BMW motorsport boss Jens Marquardt has promised not to make any big changes to the way his predecessor Mario Theissen ran the manufacturer’s racing programmes. Marquardt officially took full control of BMW’s motorsport division last week, when Theissen retired from his role at the company following a handover period in the first half of this year.

Rankings: Spengler rockets up

July 4th, 2011

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Rankings: Spengler rockets up

The weather may not exactly have fitted the occasion, but Bruno Spengler made light of a rain-shortened DTM race at the Norisring to take the race victory, championship lead and his best Rankings spot to date in one fell swoop. Rain was the big challenge at the famous German circuit, but Spengler led the whole race aside from his pitstops, denying his Mercedes team-mate Jamie Green a fourth consecutive victory at the track

New BMW completes roll-out

July 4th, 2011

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New BMW completes roll-out

BMW’s 2012 DTM racer hit the track for the first time at the German manufacturer’s Aschheim test circuit on Monday morning. The M3 DTM was given a brief roll-out in front of BMW motorsport director Jens Marquardt and a number of high-level company executives, 10 days before its public launch in Munich.