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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.

Corvette shuffles ALMS line-up

January 21st, 2012

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Corvette shuffles ALMS line-up

Corvette has announced a reshuffled driver line-up for its 2012 American Le Mans Series GT campaign. Jan Magnussen and Oliver Gavin – who finished second in last year’s championship sharing the #4 car – are split up for the new season. Tommy Milner moves across from the #3 to join Gavin in the #4, with Magnussen moving in the opposite direction.

ALMS adds Virginia Raceway for 2012

January 17th, 2012

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ALMS adds Virginia Raceway for 2012

The American Le Mans Series will make its debut at Virginia International Raceway in 2012, having announced an additional round on 15 September.

Hand stays in ALMS alongside DTM

January 13th, 2012

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Hand stays in ALMS alongside DTM

Joey Hand will continue to race for BMW in the American Le Mans Series in 2012 alongside his move to the firm’s new DTM programme.

Beretta parts company with Corvette

January 4th, 2012

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Beretta parts company with Corvette

Olivier Beretta has parted company with Corvette Racing after an very successful eight-year stint with the team. Ex-Formula 1 driver Beretta, 42, confirmed the departure on the announcement of his participation in this month’s 24 Hours of Daytona with the Risi Competizione Ferrari team. The Monegasque driver was one of six drivers announced for Risi’s two Ferrari 458 Italias entered in the US enduro on January 28/29.

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

BMW to defend GT titles with RLL

November 26th, 2011

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BMW to defend GT titles with RLL

BMW will defend its American Le Mans Series GT titles in 2012 after announcing that Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing will continue to field a works team in the championship. RLL ran BMW’s factory assault in the series this year, winning the teams’ and manufacturers’ titles, while Joey Hand and Dirk Muller took the drivers’ championship in one of its M3 GTs. No drivers have been announced for the programme.

ALMS aims for 2013 Detroit return

October 12th, 2011

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ALMS aims for 2013 Detroit return

The American Le Mans Series hopes to return to Detroit in 2013, as a scheduling conflict will prevent it being part of the revived IndyCar event on the Belle Isle street circuit next season. IndyCar and the ALMS had shared the bill in Detroit when the course was last used in 2007 and ’08

Peugeot wins Petit Le Mans

October 2nd, 2011

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Peugeot wins Petit Le Mans

Peugeot claimed a third consecutive victory in the Petit Le Mans enduro at Road Atlanta. The 908 turbodiesel LMP1 driven by Franck Montagny, Stephane Sarrazin and Alex Wurz claimed victory in the 1000-mile event by five laps after both Audi R18 TDIs retired. The German manufacturer’s challenge disappeared early in the eighth hour when Romain Dumas tangled with a Porsche GTC class car as he was mounting a push for the lead.

Peugeot in charge after Audi crashes

October 1st, 2011

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Peugeot in charge after Audi crashes

The #8 Peugeot will take a comfortable lead into the final quarter of the Petit Le Mans after the #1 Audi crashed in traffic during a huge battle between them.

Peugeot in front at halfway point

October 1st, 2011

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Peugeot in front at halfway point

The remaining factory Peugeot led the Petit Le Mans 1000-mile enduro at Road Atlanta at half-distance.

ORECA leads at quarter distance

October 1st, 2011

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ORECA leads at quarter distance

The ORECA Peugeot leads the Petit Le Mans a quarter of the way through the race, amid issues for all four works diesel cars in the opening two and a half hours. Both works Peugeots were given one-minute stop-go penalties just after the one-hour mark for missing the red light at the pit exit

ORECA holds early Petit lead

October 1st, 2011

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ORECA holds early Petit lead

The ORECA Peugeot leads the Petit Le Mans in Nicolas Lapierre’s hands after the race’s first hour, having gone out of sequence to the other diesel cars on pitstops.

Davidson takes Petit Le Mans pole

September 30th, 2011

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Davidson takes Petit Le Mans pole

Peugeot driver Anthony Davidson claimed his second straight pole for the Petit Le Mans enduro at Road Atlanta. The Briton secured the top spot in qualifying on his first flying lap aboard the Peugeot 908 turbodiesel he shares with Sebastien Bourdais and Simon Pagenaud. His time of 1m07.428s put him just over a tenth clear of Audi driver Timo Bernhard.

Kristensen tops interrupted practice

September 30th, 2011

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Kristensen tops interrupted practice

Audi’s Tom Kristensen was quickest between red flags in a truncated final practice session before qualifying for the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.

Pagenaud quickest in night session

September 30th, 2011

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Simon Pagenaud put Peugeot on top right at the end of another extremely tight practice session for the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. The Frenchman lapped in 1m09.027s with his final lap of the two-hour night session, allowing him to beat Audi’s Romain Dumas by just 0.080 seconds.

McNish tops ultra-close practice

September 29th, 2011

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McNish tops ultra-close practice

The #2 Audi emerged fastest in an extraordinarily close second official practice session for this weekend’s Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. Just 0.116 seconds covered the four cars from the factory Audi and Peugeot teams at the end of the hour. Allan McNish’s late 1m09.768s lap secured the spot for Audi, but the margins among the leaders were tiny

Peugeot 1-2 in Petit first practice

September 29th, 2011

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Peugeot got its 2011 Petit Le Mans campaign off to a perfect start by sealing a 1-2 finish in a truncated first practice at Road Atlanta. Audi had set the pace for much of the session, which had to be extended by 30 minutes after lengthy repairs to the wall and fencing were needed following a clash between the No.11 JDX Porsche and the No.24 Oak Pescarolo-Judd – which reported a brake failure – at Turn 5. When the session finally resumed Tom Kristensen kept Audi ahead until Peugeot made their move with 20 minutes remaining

Peugeot leads early Petit testing

September 26th, 2011

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Peugeot had the early edge as testing for the 2011 Petit Le Mans began at Road Atlanta on Sunday. The four factory cars from leading contenders Peugeot and Audi were among the 23 crews that attended the first seven-hour test day, with #7 Peugeot drivers Sebastien Bourdais, Simon Pagenaud and Anthony Davidson setting the pace with a 1m08.291s.

Matos joins Risi for Petit

September 23rd, 2011

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Matos joins Risi for Petit

Raphael Matos will return to sportscar racing with the Risi Ferrari team for next weekend’s Petit Le Mans.

Aston wins as Dyson takes title

September 18th, 2011

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Aston wins as Dyson takes title

Stefan Mucke, Adrian Fernandez and Harold Primat gave Aston Martin Racing a boost in what has been a miserable season by winning the American Le Mans Series’ six-hour race at Laguna Seca. Dyson Racing’s Chris Dyson and Guy Smith clinched the LMP1 title with second place, despite some late dramas for their co-driver Jay Cochran looking like they might delay the championship celebration.