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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.

Lanigan joins forces with Rahal

December 18th, 2010

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Lanigan joins forces with Rahal

Former Conquest and Newman/Haas co-owner Mike Lanigan has become in partner in Bobby Rahal’s team, which will be renamed Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. Lanigan was a sponsor of Rahal’s son Graham in the Atlantic series in 2006, and then moved from his partnership with Conquest Racing to Newman/Haas when it signed the younger Rahal for the 2007 Champ Car season.

O’Connell leaves Corvette

December 15th, 2010

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O’Connell leaves Corvette

Long-time factory Corvette driver Johnny O’Connell is leaving his role with the squad’s American Le Mans Series and Le Mans 24 Hours programme, but will remain with the General Motors family to drive a Cadillac in the SCCA World Challenge GT series.

Level 5 to run Lola-Hondas in LMP2

December 11th, 2010

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Level 5 to run Lola-Hondas in LMP2

American Le Mans Series LMPC champion team Level 5 Motorsports will move up to the LMP2 class next season with a pair of Lola-Hondas. Owner/driver Scott Tucker won the new one-make LMPC division this year, and will retain his regular team-mate Christophe Bouchut for the step up to LMP2. Bouchut is a former winner of both the Daytona and Le Mans 24 Hours, and a multiple champion in GT racing

Audi Unveils New R18 Race Car

December 10th, 2010

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INGOLSTADT, Germany — Audi debuted its new R18 LMP1 sports car Friday evening as the company announced its pursuit of a 10th 24 Hours of Le Mans victory. For the first time since 1999, Audi will contest Le Mans with a closed coupe again. “In the future, aerodynamic efficiency will be even more important at Le Mans than it was in the past,” says Head of Audi Motorsport Dr

BMW, Rahal To Continue Partnership

December 7th, 2010

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WOODCLIFF LAKE, N.J. — BMW will again team with Rahal Letterman Racing in 2011 as the two groups focus on capturing the GT championship in the American Le Mans Series.

CORE Autosport Moving Up To LMPC

November 17th, 2010

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CORE Autosport Moving Up To LMPC

CORE Autosport will move up to the American Le Mans Series LMP Challenge class next year. (ALMS Photo) ROCK HILL, S.C.

Two Cars For Flying Lizard In 2011

November 16th, 2010

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Two Cars For Flying Lizard In 2011

Flying Lizard Motorsports will field two Porsches in the GT division of the American Le Mans Series in 2011. (ALMS Photo) SONOMA, Calif

TRG, Black Swan, GMG Team Up For Rolex 24

November 11th, 2010

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TRG, Black Swan, GMG Team Up For Rolex 24

TRG will team with GMG Racing and Black Swan Racing to field a 2011 Porsche during the Rolex 24 at Daytona Int'l Speedway in January.

Star Mazda Schedule Announced

November 9th, 2010

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Star Mazda Schedule Announced

Conor Daly (22) leads the Star Mazda Championship field at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Clermont, Ind., in May. (Kory L. Hales Photo) PACOIMA, Calif

Bobby Rahal Not Done With 2010

November 3rd, 2010

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Bobby Rahal Not Done With 2010

Bobby Rahal (ALMS Photo) SEBRING, Fla. — For many in the American Le Mans Series, thoughts have turned to next season

SCCA Amends Runoffs Process

October 29th, 2010

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SCCA Amends Runoffs Process

The field for September's SCCA Formula Vee National Championship Runoffs event heads into the first turn at Wisconsin's Road America road course. (Mark Weber/SCCA photo)

Panoz Car Returning To Sebring

October 20th, 2010

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Panoz Car Returning To Sebring

The Panoz Abruzzi Spirit of Le Mans will compete during the Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring at Sebring (Fla.) Int'l Raceway next season. (ALMS Photo) HOSCHTON, Ga. — Five years after last visiting victory lane at Sebring Int’l Raceway, Panoz will return to the American Le Mans Series Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring with its new Abruzzi Spirit of Le Mans

ALMS Notes: Riley To Build ALMS Prototype Chassis

October 5th, 2010

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BRASELTON, Ga. — There will be a new entry in 2011 in the American Le Mans prototype arena with the announcement that longtime Grand Am chassis supplier Bill Riley will produce a new design for the ALMS

Audi rues bizarre balaclava problem

October 3rd, 2010

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Audi rues bizarre balaclava problem

Audi team-mates Dindo Capello and Allan McNish were left in a state of disbelief by the bizarre helmet issue that cost them any hope of victory in this weekend’s Petit Le Mans. Capello was leading the race when the lining of his helmet worked loose, dropping his balaclava in front of his eyes, making it impossible to see where he was going. This issue forced the team to make an unscheduled pitstop, which ended a great race-long dice for the lead with the two Peugeots

Sarrazin hails ‘perfect’ win

October 3rd, 2010

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Sarrazin hails ‘perfect’ win

Petit Le Mans victor Stephane Sarrazin described his and the team’s performance as “perfect” following their one-lap win at Road Atlanta.

Petit Le Mans All Peugeot

October 3rd, 2010

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Petit Le Mans All Peugeot

The trio of Franck Montagny, Stephane Sarrazin and Pedro Lamy led a one-two Peugeot finish in Saturday's Petit Le Mans, the season finale for the American Le Mans Series at Road Atlanta.

Peugeot takes Petit Le Mans one-two

October 3rd, 2010

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Peugeot takes Petit Le Mans one-two

Peugeot claimed an historic one-two in the 13th running of the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. Ultimately it was the quickest car in the race, the #08 Peugeot 908 of Stephane Sarrazin/Franck Montagny/Pedro Lamy that took the win, although it was only in the final two hours that the result was not in doubt. Up until then the Audi R15 of Allan McNish/Dindo Capello/Tom Kristensen had a very real chance of winning, while the second 908 of Anthony Davidson/Marc Gene/Alex Wurz was waiting in the wings on the lead lap

Peugeot leads into closing stages

October 2nd, 2010

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Peugeot leads into closing stages

Peugeot is in control of the Petit Le Mans as the endurance race enters its final quarter.

Kristensen Audi leads Petit at halfway

October 2nd, 2010

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Kristensen Audi leads Petit at halfway

The #7 Audi of Tom Kristensen holds a narrow lead as the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta enters its second half.