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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.

Wilks: No extra pressure in Scotland

October 6th, 2011

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Wilks: No extra pressure in Scotland

Guy Wilks has denied there is any more pressure on him ahead of this weekend’s Rally of Scotland as he gears up for his final Peugeot UK outing of the season. The Briton has suffered a season fraught with punctures and the odd mistake, and his failed to repeat his podium of the opening round in Monte Carlo

Neuville triumphs in Sanremo thriller

September 24th, 2011

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Thierry Neuville clinched the second Intercontinental Rally Challenge victory of his short career in an incredible last-stage showdown with Andreas Mikkelsen in Sanremo after Freddy Loix crashed out. BFO Skoda driver Loix’s accident while leading three stages from the end turned what had been a three-way fight into a head to head shoot-out between rising stars Neuville (Kronos Peugeot) and Mikkelsen (Skoda UK), the latter still hunting for his maiden win after crashing within sight of victory in Hungary two weeks ago. Mikkelsen had led the first half of the rally, but could not shake off Loix or Neuville

Loix heads extremely tight battle

September 24th, 2011

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Loix heads extremely tight battle

Freddy Loix holds a narrow lead in Sanremo with three stages to go, as the latest round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge brews into a three-way late showdown.

Loix grabs lead on night stage

September 23rd, 2011

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Freddy Loix moved into the Rally Sanremo lead by setting the fastest time on the 44-kilometre Ronde night stage that closed leg one. BFO Skoda driver Loix had gone onto the stage four seconds behind leader Andreas Mikkelsen (Skoda UK), but was quickest through by 7.2s, giving him a 2.7s advantage over his Norwegian rival going into day two

Mikkelsen still ahead in Sanremo

September 23rd, 2011

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Mikkelsen still ahead in Sanremo

Andreas Mikkelsen inched away from pursuers Freddy Loix and Thierry Neuville through the second loop of Rally Sanremo stages, though the top three are still covered by just five seconds. Skoda UK’s Mikkelsen was quickest on all three stages after service, but only by fractions of a second on SS4 and SS5, before Neuville (Kronos Peugeot) equalled him on the loop-closing Bignone stage. Neuville had earlier lost second to BFO Skoda driver Loix as the veteran continued his charge up the order.

Mikkelsen takes narrow early lead

September 23rd, 2011

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Mikkelsen takes narrow early lead

Andreas Mikkelsen holds a narrow early lead on Rally Sanremo following the opening loop of three stages.

Live TV for four Scotland stages

September 23rd, 2011

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Live TV for four Scotland stages

Eurosport has confirmed it will show live coverage of four stages of next month’s Rally of Scotland, the penultimate round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. Both runs through the Errochty test on Saturday (October 8) and High Corrie on Sunday (October 9) will be broadcast live on Eurosport . The station will provide thorough coverage with stage-side cameras filming the action along with on-board and helicopter footage.

Mikkelsen leads Sanremo shakedown

September 23rd, 2011

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Mikkelsen leads Sanremo shakedown

Andreas Mikkelsen was quickest in shakedown for Rallye Sanremo, round nine of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, which gets underway with the first of 13 stages this afternoon.

IRC confirm 39-car grid for Scotland

September 21st, 2011

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IRC confirm 39-car grid for Scotland

The entry list for next month’s Rally of Scotland has been revealed and, as predicted by Autosport , it’s one of the strongest of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge season to date. Monte Carlo Rally winner Bryan Bouffier is seeded at number one, with his fellow Peugeot factory runners Thierry Neuville and Guy Wilks at four and seven respectively.

Strong entry for Rally of Scotland

September 20th, 2011

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Strong entry for Rally of Scotland

Next month’s Rally of Scotland will feature its strongest ever entry with close to 20 Super 2000 cars starting the penultimate round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge. Clerk of the course Iain Campbell admitted he is delighted with the response to a slightly altered route for this year’s event, which features a Stirling Castle start and two runs at the all new Carron Valley stage in the dark on Friday October 7

Hanninen to miss Sanremo

September 19th, 2011

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Hanninen to miss Sanremo

Juho Hanninen’s chances of retaining his Intercontinental Rally Challenge title now look remote after Skoda opted not to enter him for this weekend’s Sanremo Rally. Although Skoda announced at the start of the year that Hanninen would not defend his IRC title and would instead focus on the World Rally Championship’s S2000 class, he has still been entered for five IRC events so far and won the Canarias, Yalta and Azores rallies

Atkinson returns to Proton IRC squad

September 16th, 2011

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Atkinson returns to Proton IRC squad

Chris Atkinson will return to the Intercontinental Rally Challenge with the Proton team on next week’s Sanremo Rally, replacing P-G Andersson for the Malaysian manufacturer. Atkinson will drive the sister Satria Neo S2000 to Proton’s IRC regular Giandomenico Basso on the final asphalt round of the season. With his programme biased towards the FIA Asia-Pacific Rally Championship, Atkinson has not competed for Proton since winning the Rally of Whangarei two months ago and the team was keen to get him back in the car.

Kopecky wins in thrilling finish

September 11th, 2011

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Kopecky wins in thrilling finish

Jan Kopecky took his second Intercontinental Rally Challenge win in succession in thrilling style – as he fended off Thierry Neuville in the series’ closest ever finish after Andreas Mikkelsen crashed out of the lead two stages from the end in Hungary. Skoda UK driver Mikkelsen had looked assured of victory on the IRC’s inaugural Mecsek Rally as he pulled clear of Kopecky’s works Skoda this morning. But Mikkelsen drove too cautiously on the first stage of the final loop, and then crashed when caught out by a patch of gravel on the penultimate test

Mikkelsen stretches Mecsek lead

September 11th, 2011

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Mikkelsen stretches Mecsek lead

Andreas Mikkelsen is pulling away from Jan Kopecky again on the Mecsek Rally halfway through the final day of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge’s debut in Hungary. Kopecky’s domination of the second half of leg one brought Mikkelsen’s lead down to eight seconds, but the Skoda UK driver fought back against his factory rival this morning. Mikkelsen kicked off by winning the Zobak stage, with Kopecky only third and 6.9s slower

Mikkelsen holds on as Kopecky gains

September 10th, 2011

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Mikkelsen holds on as Kopecky gains

Andreas Mikkelsen’s Mecsek Rally lead is down to just eight seconds over Jan Kopecky after the Czech driver launched a determined attack through Saturday’s final three stages. The second run through Alsomocsolad – which should have happened later tonight – was cancelled due to the spectator issues seen there in the morning, meaning the leg concluded with SS7. Works Skoda driver Kopecky was quickest on all three stages that did take place, allowing him to reduce Mikkelsen’s lead from 14 seconds at the midday service to 8.7s overnight

Mikkelsen in front in Hungary

September 10th, 2011

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Mikkelsen in front in Hungary

Andreas Mikkelsen has opened up an early lead on the Mecsek Rally, the Intercontinental Rally Challenge’s first visit to Hungary. Three fastest times from the opening four stages have given Skoda UK’s Mikkelsen a 14-second lead over the field, with the Norwegian declaring himself thrilled with his car’s performance. “The engineers and the mechanics of the team are doing an amazing job,” said Mikkelsen

Kopecky hangs on to win in Zlin

August 28th, 2011

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Jan Kopecky hung on to take his first victory of the 2011 Intercontinental Rally Challenge season in his home event, Rally Zlin, by just 1.2 seconds over Freddy Loix. Last year’s winner Loix had mounted a spectacular charge over the second half of the event to bring himself into victory contention after a low-key start.

Kopecky clings on to lead in Zlin

August 28th, 2011

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Kopecky clings on to lead in Zlin

Jan Kopecky’s Rally Zlin lead has been slashed to just a second over Freddy Loix with three stages to go after the works Skoda man lost time with power steering problems this morning. Kopecky had to carry out a makeshift repair after today’s first stage and was at least able to maintain enough pace to cling on ahead of last year’s Zlin winner Loix’s BFO Skoda. Juho Hanninen has also gained on his rally-leading team-mate, though he is 10.2s adrift in third

Kopecky edges clear in Zlin

August 27th, 2011

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Kopecky edges clear in Zlin

Jan Kopecky’s lead in Rally Zlin is up to 19.7 seconds after problems for several of his closest rivals on Saturday afternoon. Skoda UK’s Andreas Mikkelsen had been chasing works Skoda driver Kopecky this morning, but suffered a puncture on SS9, Semetin, and fell to sixth place. Erstwhile third-place runner Guy Wilks (Peugeot UK) also had a puncture on the same stage and took longer to change the wheel, causing him to plunge to 12th

Kopecky in front on Rally Zlin

August 27th, 2011

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Kopecky in front on Rally Zlin

Skoda’s Jan Kopecky is in the lead midway through the first full day of his and his team’s home round of the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, the Rally Zlin. Andreas Mikkelsen had briefly led for Skoda UK early on Saturday morning before Kopecky moved in front. After five stages, the Czech driver holds a 5.8-second lead over Mikkelsen.