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February 2012

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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.

Hayden injured in training accident

December 29th, 2011

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Hayden injured in training accident

Nicky Hayden’s participation in the first MotoGP test of 2012 is in doubt after the American was injured while training in Kentucky.

Rapax: Young driver line-up cost us

December 29th, 2011

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Rapax: Young driver line-up cost us

Former GP2 championship-winning team Rapax believes that its decision to take an inexperienced line-up in 2011 led to its fall down the grid. The Italian team won the championship in 2010 with Pastor Maldonado, who then graduated to Formula 1 with Williams.

MotoGP keen to extend Jerez deal

December 28th, 2011

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MotoGP keen to extend Jerez deal

MotoGP is keen to keep its Spanish Grand Prix at Jerez until at least 2016 after completing a deal to secure the 2012 race at the venue.

Neal impressed with NGTC Honda

December 25th, 2011

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Neal impressed with NGTC Honda

Matt Neal believes Honda’s new NGTC Civic will enable to him to defend his British Touring Car crown as the first car nears completion.

Palmer switches to iSport for 2012

December 23rd, 2011

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Palmer switches to iSport for 2012

Jolyon Palmer will switch to iSport International for his second year of GP2 competition in 2012.

Kronos to scale back IRC programme

December 22nd, 2011

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Kronos to scale back IRC programme

Kronos Racing will scale back its involvement in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge next year and instead focus on developing a new car for the 2013 season. The Belgian squad won the 2008 and ’09 drivers’ titles with Nicolas Vouilloz and Kris Meeke in Peugeot 207 S2000s and also guided Sebastien Loeb to the ’06 World Rally Championship crown in a Citroen Xsara WRC.

British F3 drivers for Brazil race

December 22nd, 2011

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British F3 drivers for Brazil race

British Formula 3 Championship racers Lucas Foresti and Yann Cunha have signed up to contest next year’s F3 Brazil Open at Interlagos. Foresti, 19, who won twice on his way to seventh spot in the British F3 standings this year, is the defending champion of the event, having won all three heats plus the final in 2011. Former Sud-Am champion Cunha, meanwhile, raced for T-Sport in Britain and was also a race-winner in the European F3 Open with Hache Team this year.

DAMS signs Pic for 2012 FR3.5 season

December 21st, 2011

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DAMS signs Pic for 2012 FR3.5 season

Arthur Pic will join DAMS to compete in the 2012 Formula Renault 3.5 series, the team announced on Wednesday. Pic, the younger brother of Marussia F1 driver Charles, raced in the championship with Tech 1 Racing during the 2011 season. He finished in 23rd position with 12 points scored.

Leal joins Trident for 2012 GP2 season

December 20th, 2011

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Leal joins Trident for 2012 GP2 season

Julian Leal will compete with the Trident Racing team in the 2012 GP2 series, the outfit has announced. The Colombian will join Stephane Richelmi to form the driver line-up for the Italian squad in the 2012 championship. Leal, 21, raced with the team in the final GP2 event of the year in Abu Dhabi last month

Conquest seals OAK LMP2 deal

December 19th, 2011

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Conquest seals OAK LMP2 deal

IndyCar team Conquest Racing will expand into sportscars in 2012, having secured a deal to become the American importer for OAK-Pescarolo, and to run one of the LMP2 cars in the American Le Mans Series. OAK has also unveiled the first images of its ’12 design, and announced that its constructor department will now be known as Onroak Automotive. Eric Bachelart’s Conquest team, which has already tested one of OAK’s cars, has formed a new Conquest Endurance arm to handle its LMP2 project and its status as OAK importer

Audi recruits Gass in new role

December 19th, 2011

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Audi recruits Gass in new role

Former Formula 1 man Dieter Gass has joined Audi Sport as head of racing commitments as the firm reorganises its motorsport department for 2012. Gass was an Audi engineer before moving to F1 with Toyota in 2001. After the Japanese company withdrew from the world championship, he moved to Lotus, where he was sporting director until recently.

Pecom announces WEC programme

December 19th, 2011

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Pecom announces WEC programme

AF Corse’s Pecom Racing arm will enter the new World Endurance Championship next year with an LMP2 ORECA-Nissan.

Coronel to go into space

December 19th, 2011

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Coronel to go into space

World Touring Car Championship driver Tom Coronel will travel into space in 2014 after signing up to a new Dutch-backed programme.

Audi starts public tests of 2012 LMP1

December 17th, 2011

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Audi starts public tests of 2012 LMP1

Audi has begun the first public tests of its 2012 LMP1 car ahead of the new World Endurance Championship. The team did not reveal any details of the machine, the differences to 2011′s R18 or the car’s designation at this stage. After conducting initial tests in private, Audi is in action at Sebring, venue for the 2012 WEC opener in March, this weekend.

Skoda retains Hanninen, Kopecky

December 16th, 2011

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Skoda retains Hanninen, Kopecky

Skoda will retain Juho Hanninen and Jan Kopecky in its factory team for the 2012 Intercontinental Rally Challenge. Both have driven for the team since it came into the IRC in 2009, with Hanninen taking the ’10 championship and Kopecky finishing second in the standings for all three years. Skoda will also continue to provide factory-specification equipment for reigning champion Andreas Mikkelsen, who drives under the Skoda UK banner.

GP3 working on 2012 Monaco date

December 16th, 2011

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GP3 working on 2012 Monaco date

GP3 organisers have confirmed they are working on adding the series to the Monaco Grand Prix support bill for the first time next year. The series revealed its 2012 calendar on Friday afternoon, including support events at seven of the European grands prix.

Nine CRT entries for MotoGP 2012

December 16th, 2011

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Nine CRT entries for MotoGP 2012

The 2012 MotoGP field is set to reach 21 bikes, with governing body the FIM announcing that nine CRT entries have been accepted for next season. MotoGP organiser Dorna sees the lower-cost CRT regulations, which allow elements of modified production machinery, as the future of the championship.

Bautista has pins removed from leg

December 16th, 2011

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Bautista has pins removed from leg

Alvaro Bautista has undergone successful surgery to remove the pins that were placed in his left leg after his accident in Qatar at the start of the year. The Spaniard broke his leg in a practice crash, and though he only missed one other race before returning at Estoril, the after-effects of the injury troubled him for much of the year. On Wednesday Dr Angel Villamor removed the pins from Bautista’s femur in an operation at Madrid’s USP San Jose

Stoner impresses in V8 Supercar test

December 16th, 2011

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Stoner impresses in V8 Supercar test

MotoGP world champion Casey Stoner tested Craig Lowndes’ Triple Eight Holden V8 Supercar at the Driving Centre in Norwell, Queensland, yesterday – and convinced the team he could be very competitive should he ever switch to four-wheeled motorsport. The Australian drove the car that Lowndes had taken to victory in the season finale in Sydney a fortnight ago, and quickly acclimatised.

GP2 announces expanded calendar

December 16th, 2011

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GP2 announces expanded calendar

GP2 will make its debut on the Singapore street circuit as part of its expanded 2012 calendar. With the championship dropping its winter Asia series in favour of adding more non-European rounds to the main schedule, the 2012 GP2 calendar will feature a record 24 races across 12 events. The season kicks off as part of the Malaysian Grand Prix bill – the first time that the main GP2 series has raced at former GP2 Asia venue Sepang – before back to back events at Sakhir, the first supporting the Bahrain GP, the second a standalone meeting one week later