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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.
  • 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.

Toyota: Testing can make up for Spa

May 3rd, 2012

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Toyota: Testing can make up for Spa

The Toyota team will be well drilled for the race debut of its TS030 hybrid prototype at next month’s Le Mans 24 Hours despite missing this weekend’s Spa event, according to the project’s technical director Pascal Vasselon. The team was forced to withdraw from the Spa six-hour race following a testing accident which destroyed the first chassis during testing at Paul Ricard in April. Toyota has now built a second car up from a new monocoque, complete with the latest aero package which was briefly displayed at Spa before being packed off for further testing at Magny Cours, and Vasselon said that while not racing at Spa was a setback, the team would still complete the required running before Le Mans.

Lotterer keeps Audi e-tron on top

May 3rd, 2012

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Andre Lotterer set the fastest lap of the weekend so far during a shortened second practice session for the World Endurance Championship six-hour race at Spa Francorchamps as Audi once again dominated the top spots.

Audi hybrid leads first Spa practice

May 3rd, 2012

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Audi dominated the first free practice session for the World Endurance Championship six hour race at Spa Francorchamps with Benoit Treluyer setting the pace in one of the R18 e-tron quattro hybrid cars. The French driver’s time of 2m04.434s was not quite matched by compatriot Romain Dumas in the conventional R18 Ultra – which was 0.044 seconds slower

Status signs Sims and Buurmann for Spa

May 2nd, 2012

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Status signs Sims and Buurmann for Spa

Alexander Sims and Yelmer Buurman will head up the Status GP team’s driver line-up for its debut in the FIA World Endurance Championship at Spa this weekend. European Le Mans Series participant Status has gained a late entry for its Lola-Judd/BMW B12/80 in the Spa 6 Hours after the withdrawal of the new Pescarolo-Judd 03. It has signed Sims, Buurman and four-time Le Mans 24 Hours starter Romain Iannetta for the event

Vickers to contest Le Mans 24 Hours

May 1st, 2012

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Vickers to contest Le Mans 24 Hours

Two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup race winner Brian Vickers will contest the Le Mans 24 Hours this year. The Michael Waltrip Racing driver will compete in a Ferrari 458 Italia for its sportscar sister team, AF Waltrip Racing

Toyota ready to return to action

April 30th, 2012

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Toyota ready to return to action

Toyota will return to the track with its TS030 HYBRID this week after a hiatus in its testing programme following a crash.

Jarvis: Spa will be a learning race

April 27th, 2012

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Jarvis: Spa will be a learning race

Oliver Jarvis says he is treating his debut in Audi’s factory sportscar squad at Spa next weekend as a learning experience ahead of the Le Mans 24 Hours. The Briton is racing as part of the German’s squad’s works LMP1 line-up for the first time this year, starting with the Spa 6 Hours

Motoyama joins DeltaWing line-up

April 26th, 2012

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Motoyama joins DeltaWing line-up

Three-time Super GT champion Satoshi Motoyama is to return to the Le Mans 24 Hours after an absence of 12 years at the wheel of the Nissan DeltaWing. Nissan-contracted Motoyama will share the lightweight DeltaWing prototype with Michael Krumm, with whom he is racing in Super GT this year, and Marino Franchitti at Le Mans on June 16/17

Pescarolo delays debut of LMP1 car

April 23rd, 2012

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Pescarolo delays debut of LMP1 car

Sportscar legend Henri Pescarolo has delayed the debut of his new LMP1 contender until the Le Mans 24 Hours. His team had planned to race its new Pescarolo-Judd 03, which is based around the monocoque and suspension from last year’s Aston Martin AMR-One, at the Spa 6 Hours on May 5. As predicted by AUTOSPORT, it will now not be ready in time for the second round of the FIA World Endurance Championship, which means Pescarolo Team will be forced to give the car its race debut in the 24 Hours in June

Van der Zande joins Lotus for WEC

April 19th, 2012

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Van der Zande joins Lotus for WEC

Renger van der Zande is set to make his prototype sportscar racing debut this year with the Lotus LMP2 squad in the World Endurance Championship. The Dutchman, who raced for Mercedes in the DTM last year, expects to compete in six WEC events with the team, alongside a campaign in the Formula 1-supporting Porsche Supercup which kicks off in Bahrain this weekend. “I’m actually quite proud that two months after my sudden departure from the DTM, I already have an interesting year lined up,” said van der Zande, who only found out in February that he was not being retained by Mercedes.

DeltaWing gets first wet weather run

April 18th, 2012

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DeltaWing gets first wet weather run

The radical Nissan DeltaWing sportscar project undertook its first wet weather running yesterday at Snetterton. Marino Franchitti and long-term Nissan driver Michael Krumm shared control of the car at the Norfolk circuit, which also marked the project’s first European test. Franchitti, who ran in the morning when conditions were at their worst, said the first wet run had provided the team with important data and given them a clear direction for future development

Gene joins Audi as Le Mans reserve

April 17th, 2012

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Gene joins Audi as Le Mans reserve

Audi has signed Peugeot refugee Marc Gene as a reserve driver for the Le Mans 24 Hours. The 38-year-old Spaniard had been part of Peugeot’s Le Mans effort from its inception in 2007 to its abrupt cancellation at the end of 2011, taking victory at Le Mans along the way. In addition to being Audi’s standby for Le Mans, Gene will also race one of the team’s new R18 ultras in the Spa round of the World Endurance Championship in May, substituting for the Timo Bernhard, who is still not fully recovered from his Sebring testing crash

Loeb to join Le Mans test day

April 17th, 2012

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Loeb to join Le Mans test day

Sebastien Loeb will try his new team’s ORECA-Nissan LMP2 car in the Le Mans test day on 3 June.

Mowlem lands Dyson ALMS drive

April 16th, 2012

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Mowlem lands Dyson ALMS drive

British sportscar regular Johnny Mowlem will return to the prototype ranks with Dyson Racing in this year’s American Le Mans Series.

Dyson withdraws cars from Le Mans

April 16th, 2012

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Dyson withdraws cars from Le Mans

The US Dyson Racing team has withdrawn from the Le Mans 24 Hours. Dyson, which won last year’s American Le Mans Series, had planned to contest the race for the first time with a pair of Lola-Mazda B12/60 LMP1 coupes.

Graf/Luhr claim Long Beach victory

April 15th, 2012

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Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr took an emphatic win in Saturday’s American Le Mans Series round on the Long Beach street circuit. The Muscle Milk/Pickett Racing HPD duo, who started from second on the grid, took the lead for the final time with around 30 minutes left to run and quickly opened a gap over polesitter Chris Dyson, who was sharing his Dyson Racing Lola-Mazda with Guy Smith

Qualifying abandoned, Dyson on pole

April 14th, 2012

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Qualifying abandoned, Dyson on pole

Bad weather forced the American Le Mans Series to abandon its qualifying session at Long Beach on Friday evening, meaning that Dyson Racing duo Chris Dyson and Guy Smith will take pole position based on championship points. The weather had initially cleared enough for the GT and GTC cars to go out, but the track never dried enough for anyone to set a representative time and was red-flagged before the prototypes had a chance to run.

Rossiter gets Lotus LMP2 WEC seat

April 13th, 2012

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Rossiter gets Lotus LMP2 WEC seat

James Rossiter will make his World Endurance Championship debut with Lotus at the Spa Six Hours in May as the Kodewa-run team expands to a pair of cars. Rossiter, who raced a GTE-class Evora at Le Mans last year, will be one of two drivers in the second Lotus-engined Lola B12/80 LMP2 machine. His co-driver will be American amateur Kevin Weeda

Toyota delays race debut after crash

April 11th, 2012

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Toyota delays race debut after crash

Toyota has been forced to delay the racing debut of its new LMP1 car following a crash during testing at Paul Ricard. The Japanese manufacturer was scheduled to compete with its new TS030 HYBRID in the Six Hours of Spa on 5 May, but a crash at Paul Ricard last week has made Toyota change its plans

Conquest to run Nissan engine in ALMS

April 10th, 2012

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Conquest to run Nissan engine in ALMS

Conquest has announced that it will run a Nissan engine in its LMP2 car for the remainder of the ALMS season.