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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.

Michael Mallock Interview

by Chris Hall on April 23rd, 2011

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Michael Mallock Interview

This year sees Michael Mallock make a welcome return to the Avon Tyres British GT Championship, and although the 2010 European FIA GT4 pilot made cameo appearances in the KTM X-Bow last season, it’s his first serious attack on the series in eight years.  Joining forces once again with Athanasios Ladas and the ABG Motorsports team, Mallock will contest the G4 class as he continues to carve out a name for himself in the motor-sport archives of the future. With the ink on his British GT Championship deal barely dry, we caught up with the Englishman to discuss his past, present and future in racing. Q:     With the various 2011 race seasons about to get under-way, what are you doing at the moment? A:     Well, I’ve just put pen to [...]

West Racing Hires Pastorelli, Schwager

January 17th, 2011

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West Racing Hires Pastorelli, Schwager

West Racing has hired Nicky Pastorelli and Dominik Schwager to drive a new Lamborghini in the GT division of the American Le Mans Series this season.

Trackspeed Score a Double at Rockingham

by Chris Hall on July 20th, 2010

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Trackspeed Score a Double at Rockingham

Taking their first win of the 2010 British GT Championship, Trackspeed’s David Ashburn and Glynn Geddie capitalised on a black flag, waved for the Rollcentre Mosler after a pit-stop infringement, to sail home to the chequered flag at Rockingham Motorspeedway. Starting the weekend’s first race under the stewardship of David Ashburn, the 997 GT3RSR had little to offer the Mosler of Gregor Fiskin, who streaked away into an early lead in the one hour race. By the time the pit stop window had opened, the Rollcentre MT900 had established a gap of over four seconds on Ashburn and looked set to cruise to a comfortable victory. However, after completing a swift driver change, race officials called the Mosler in for a stop-go penalty for failing to wait in their box [...]

Matech adds Jani to GT1 line-up

July 16th, 2010

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Matech adds Jani to GT1 line-up

Neel Jani is to add a GT1 World Championship programme with Matech Ford alongside his Le Mans Series commitments.

Vitaphone Maserati stays on top at Paul Ricard FIA GT

July 4th, 2010

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Vitaphone Racing dominated the full-points race at the Paul Ricard FIA GT1 World Championship event. The #1 Vitaphone Maserati MC12 driven by Andrea Bertolini and Michael Bartels followed up on its win in Saturday’s qualification race in the championship round

Bertolini puts Maserati on pole

July 3rd, 2010

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Bertolini puts Maserati on pole

Vitaphone Maserati driver Andrea Bertolini claimed a second consecutive FIA GT1 World Championship pole position at Paul Ricard. The Italian, who shares his Maserati MC12 with team boss Michael Bartels, followed up on his Brno pole with a stunning lap that put him more than half a second clear of his nearest rival in final qualifying

Q and A: Enge on the GT1 fight

June 11th, 2010

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In recent years GT1 has been a battleground between Chevrolet Corvettes and Aston Martin’s Prodrive-run DBR9s. The departure of the factory Corvette team to the GT2 class has made the increasingly marginalized GT1 category the domain of private teams, albeit ones with varying degrees of manufacturer support.

Drivers welcomes single GT class at Le Mans

June 11th, 2010

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Drivers welcomes single GT class at Le Mans

Works Chevrolet and Aston Martin drivers Oliver Gavin and Tomas Enge have welcomed the move by Le Mans organisers to abandon the new-era GT1 cars from next year.

GT1 cars to be dropped from Le Mans next year

June 10th, 2010

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GT1 cars will be dropped from next year’s Le Mans 24 Hours under new plans by event organiser, the ACO.

Matech Ford back on top at Brno

May 23rd, 2010

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Matech Ford GT drivers Romain Grosjean and Thomas Mutsch took their second GT1 World Championship win of the season in a chaotic race at Brno this afternoon. Grosjean started sixth and fell further down the field at the start. He fought back and was fourth when the pit window opened during the second safety car period of the race

Vitaphone wins Brno qualification race

May 22nd, 2010

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Vitaphone Maserati drivers Michael Bartels and Andrea Bertolini won the GT1 World Championship qualification race at Brno this afternoon. Bartels led from pole and pulled out a lead of over 10 seconds before the pitstops began.

Vitaphone dominates Brno qualifying

May 22nd, 2010

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Vitaphone dominates Brno qualifying

Reigning FIA GT champions Andrea Bertolini and Michael Bartels took pole for the third round of the GT1 World Championship at Brno this weekend. The Vitaphone Maserati pairing dominated all three sessions of qualifying before Bertolini secured pole with a stunning 1m55.441s. “Brno is really good for our car, so it’s really important we score well this weekend,” said Bertolini

Aston Martin loses appeal against exclusion

May 20th, 2010

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Aston Martin loses appeal against exclusion

Aston Martin World GT1 team Young Driver AMR has lost its appeal against exclusion from the Silverstone round of the series earlier this month. Darren Turner and Tomas Enge won the race in their DBR9, but were disqualified when the car was found to have too much wear on the plank underneath. The team admitted that a section of the plank was worn away beyond the limit but appealed the exclusion despite the mistake, calling for leniancy from the FIA because the car had never run a plank before the start of this season

GT team boss Kessel passes away

May 16th, 2010

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GT racer and team boss Loris Kessel died yesterday at the age of 60. He had been suffering from leukemia

Sarrazin to race Hexis Aston

May 13th, 2010

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Peugeot LMP1 star Stephane Sarrazin is to join the Hexis Aston Martin team for the next two rounds of the FIA GT1 World Championship at Brno and Paul Ricard. The former Le Mans Series champion, will join Frederic Makowiecki in the Hexis squad. Sarrazin was part of the original Prodrive-run Aston GT1 programme in the mid-2000s

Turner calls for leniency from FIA GT stewards

May 9th, 2010

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Darren Turner has called for more understanding and dialogue between the teams, stewards and organisers of the FIA GT World Championship following his Young Driver Aston Martin team’s exclusion from winning the Tourist Trophy at Silverstone last weekend. The Briton revealed that the team has appealed against its exclusion for too much wear on the plank fitted to the underside of the car, but Turner feels that the punishment did not the crime as he and co-driver Tomas Enge were forced to hand victory over to Warren Hughes and Jamie Campbell-Walter in the Sumo Nissan. “It’s a big disappointment,” Turner told AUTOSPORT

Bourdais takes Spa pole for Peugeot

May 8th, 2010

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Bourdais takes Spa pole for Peugeot

Sebastien Bourdais gave Peugeot pole position for the Spa 1000km with a stunning lap of 1m57.884s to fend of a seemingly growing threat from Audi this weekend.

Nissan granted FIA GT win after Aston penalties

May 2nd, 2010

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Nissan granted FIA GT win after Aston penalties

The British Sumo Power Nissan team has been awarded victory in the Tourist Trophy at Silverstone, Britain’s round of the FIA GT1 World Championship. Warren Hughes and Jamie Campbell-Walter have been declared the winners after the two cars that finished ahead of them in the one-hour ‘championship’ race received penalties.

Grosjean determined to return to F1

May 2nd, 2010

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Grosjean determined to return to F1

Former Renault Formula 1 driver Romain Grosjean is still optimistic about his chances of getting back into grand prix racing even though he has switched to the new FIA GT1 World Championship this year. Grosjean had an unsuccessful half-season with Renault in F1 in 2009, stepping up from GP2 in the wake of Nelson Piquet’s dismissal, but struggling to make an impact with no testing, amid the team’s crisis following the Singapore scandal revelations, and with Renault focusing its development efforts on the 2010 car.

Turner/Enge win Tourist Trophy

May 2nd, 2010

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Turner/Enge win Tourist Trophy

Darren Turner and Tomas Enge claimed the historic Tourist Trophy for the Young Driver AMR Aston Martin team at Silverstone. Enge took over the lead of the second round of the FIA GT1 World Championship with five laps to go when the Hexis Aston Martin driven by Thomas Accary took a drive-through penalty for a pitstop infringement. Enge had looked odds on to take the lead straight after the pitstops and was shaping up to make a pass for the lead when he received news of the leader’s penalty