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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.

Bourdais clinches Le Mans pole for Peugeot

June 10th, 2010

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Bourdais clinches Le Mans pole for Peugeot

Peugeot hammered home its advantage over Audi in final qualifying for this weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours by cementing its sweep of the first two rows of the grid in final qualifying. Le Mans born Sebastien Bourdais was the man to clinch pole position, with his 3m19.711s effort on Wednesday proving good enough to grasp the top spot.

Zhuhai added to Intercontinental Cup

June 10th, 2010

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Le Mans organiser the ACO has revealed its calendar for 2011, with Zhuhai added as the season finale.

Brabham happy with Le Mans start

June 10th, 2010

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Brabham happy with Le Mans start

David Brabham declared himself happy with Highcroft Racing’s start to the Le Mans 24 Hours week after the HPD LMP2 car provisionally qualified second in class on Wednesday evening. Although the Highcroft car was more than a second behind the Strakka Racing HPD, last year’s 24 Hours winner is confident that the gap will close when Highcroft starts pushing for qualifying times. “We ran pretty heavy on fuel all night and never really went for a qualifying time,” Brabham said

Bruni hails Ferrari qualifying at Le Mans

June 10th, 2010

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Gianmaria Bruni has declared himself pleased with the #82 Risi Competizionen Ferrari’s performance after setting the quickest qualifying time in the GT2 class. Bruni’s time of 3m59.233s, set at the beginning of the two-hour period, stood until the end – even though a transmission problem sidelined the car for the balance of the session.

Aston eyes customers for new LMP1

June 4th, 2010

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Aston eyes customers for new LMP1

Aston Martin Racing intends to build six of its proposed new Le Mans 24 Hours contenders over the next two years, this week’s AUTOSPORT magazine reveals. The funding plan to which company chairman David Richards alluded involves AMR selling the first bespoke Aston Martin prototypes since 1989 to collectors and customer teams. AUTOSPORT has learned that AMR intends to build four of the new LMP1s for 2011, two to be entered by the Prodrive-run factory team and two by privateers, and then produce another two for customers in 2012

Fisichella to race in ALMS at Miller

May 29th, 2010

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Fisichella to race in ALMS at Miller

Giancarlo Fisichella will make his American Le Mans Series debut in the next round of the championship at Miller Motorsports Park on 11 July.

Magnussen wins on F3 Euro Series debut

May 23rd, 2010

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Kevin Magnussen finished his first weekend in the Formula 3 Euro Series with victory in race two at Valencia on Sunday. The McLaren-backed 17-year-old son of ex-grand prix driver Jan Magnussen took a comfortable victory, after grabbing the lead from reversed grid pole-sitter Nicolas Marroc at the start

Highcroft comes from last to victory at Laguna Seca

May 23rd, 2010

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Highcroft Racing came from the back of the 35-car grid to take victory by seven laps in an incident-packed six-hour American Le Mans Series race at Laguna Seca.

Smith gives Dyson Laguna Seca pole

May 21st, 2010

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A superb lap from Guy Smith gave Dyson Racing’s Lola-Mazda its first outright pole in American Le Mans Series qualifying at Laguna Seca.

BRDC drivers raise £80k in London Marathon

April 26th, 2010

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BRDC drivers raise £80k in London Marathon

Drivers from the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC) raised £80,000 for charity in Sunday’s London marathon.

Peugeot commits to new Le Mans Cup

April 24th, 2010

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Peugeot commits to new Le Mans Cup

Peugeot will continue its rivalry with Audi in the ACO’s new Intercontinental Le Mans Cup this autumn. The new series is the first step towards creating a fully-fledged global contest linking the Le Mans Series, the American Le Mans Series and the planned Asian Le Mans Series

Pagenaud wins thriller for Highcroft

April 18th, 2010

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Pagenaud wins thriller for Highcroft

Simon Pagenaud scored a brilliant victory for Patron Highcroft Acura by taking the lead in dramatic fashion from Adrian Fernandez’s factory AMR Lola coupe on the last lap of a 100-minute thriller at Long Beach. In a perfect advert for the American Le Mans Series’ new regulations to equalise LMP1 and LMP2 and create one category, the Aston and the Acura crews put on a race-long battle that was only settled in the last 45 seconds of the race when Fernandez made a mistake and allowed the more nimble but less powerful HPD ARX-01c through to win.

Aston beats Highcroft to pole

April 17th, 2010

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Aston beats Highcroft to pole

Adrian Fernandez put Aston Martin on pole position for round two of the American Le Mans Series in Long Beach – but only after a very tight battle with Highcroft HPD’s Simon Pagenaud. In the first event for the new combined and performance-balanced single LMP class, the LMP1 Aston and LMP2 HPD proved evenly-matched. Fernandez set the early pace, but was then pipped by Pagenaud just before a mid-session stoppage to clear debris.

Mowlem to race in new ALMS class

April 2nd, 2010

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Mowlem to race in new ALMS class

Johnny Mowlem is to join the American Le Mans Series’ new LMP Challenge class for the next two rounds with debutant team PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports. Former Atlantic squad PR1 is a new addition to the ALMS’ single-make division for the ORECA-built machines originally used in Formula Le Mans in Europe, and will join the series in Long Beach two weeks from now. Mowlem will line-up with Tom Papadopoulos in the car

Delorean Bringing Fusion Power to ALMS

by ALMS PR on April 1st, 2010

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Delorean Bringing Fusion Power to ALMS

Promises to be ‘Back in Time’ for debut later this season The American Le Mans Series presented by Tequila Patrón added another world-renowned manufacturer – and yet another energy source! – to its grid Thursday. Delorean and its DMC-12 model have been given special waivers to compete in the world’s leading sports car championship. To no one’s great surprise, the rear-engined beast will be powered by the revolutionary Mr. Fusion system which the yet-to-be-named team will feed with non-recyclable materials collected from the pressrooms throughout the weekend. Popular items include cheeseburgers, leftover gummy bears, sunblock, crayons and corrupted compact flash cards; the latter will be donated by angry photographers! Among other components, Mr. Fusion will power the Delorean’s Flux Capacitor. The device is the first (and perhaps still best) example [...]

Werner seals Highcroft Le Mans deal

March 25th, 2010

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Werner seals Highcroft Le Mans deal

Highcroft has confirmed that it has signed three-time Le Mans winner Marco Werner to complete its squad for its first attempt at the 24-hour classic. The American Le Mans Series champion squad is entering Le Mans for the first time this year, and will run its HPD chassis in the LMP2 class. With regular driver Simon Pagenaud contracted to Peugeot for Le Mans, Highcroft is bringing in former Audi man Werner to join David Brabham and Marino Franchitti.

Peugeot Ready To Wage War With Audi

March 22nd, 2010

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Peugeot Ready To Wage War With Audi

SEBRING, Fla. — Although Peugeot dominated this weekend’s Sebring 12-Hour enduro, the real action will take place this week, as both the French manufacturer and its rival Audi conduct a full-length test on the rough central Florida circuit in preparation for June’s Le Mans 24-hour.

Peugeots Flawless In Sebring Sweep

March 21st, 2010

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Peugeots Flawless In Sebring Sweep

SEBRING, Fla. — Without the Sebring-conquering Audi powerhouse in this year’s edition of the Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring, the two-car Team Peugeot Total outfit asserted itself as the new kings of the road in Saturday’s American Le Mans Series season opener at Sebring Int’l Raceway. After sweeping the front row during qualifying on Friday, Alexander Wurz, Marc Gene and Anthony Davidson powered their No.

Peugeot clinches easy Sebring 1-2

March 21st, 2010

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Peugeot clinches easy Sebring 1-2

Peugeot claimed a straightforward one-two finish in the Sebring 12 Hours, having taken command of the event from the start of unofficial testing. The #07 car of Alex Wurz, Anthony Davidson and Marc Gene took victory, just ahead of their team-mates Pedro Lamy, Sebastien Bourdais and Nicolas Minassian.