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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.

Kimber-Smith stays with Greaves

December 15th, 2011

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Kimber-Smith stays with Greaves

Tom Kimber-Smith will remain with Greaves Motorsport for next year’s Le Mans Series. The 27-year-old Briton enjoyed a successful 2011 season, taking LMP2 honours at the Le Mans 24 Hours and the class title in the LMS as well, and will partner Alex Brundle in the team’s Zytek-Nissan in 2012.

Donington on 2012 LMS calendar

November 28th, 2011

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Donington on 2012 LMS calendar

Donington Park will host Britain’s round of the Le Mans Series next year, taking over Silverstone’s spot as the championship’s British round. Silverstone’s AUTOSPORT 6 Hours has been a permanent fixture on the LMS calendar since 2007, but is moving to form part of FIA World Endurance Championship next year instead.

New GT class for 2012 LMS

November 4th, 2011

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New GT class for 2012 LMS

The Le Mans Series will introduce a new class to cater for less highly-modified GT cars next year. The GTC category, which will feature cars of a lesser technical specification than GTE models, will run along similar lines to the class of the same name already in place in the ALMS

Loeb launches sportscar team

October 30th, 2011

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Loeb launches sportscar team

Seven-time World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb is launching his own sportscar team, with entries in the Le Mans Series and France’s Porsche Cup planned for 2012, and says the project will be his post-rallying future. The rallying legend has long hinted that he would consider a career in circuit racing when he retires from the WRC, having already twice raced in the Le Mans 24 Hours and other smaller events.

Pescarolo duo claim title with win

September 25th, 2011

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Julien Jousse and Emmanuel Collard claimed the Le Mans Series LMP1 drivers’ title for sportscar legend Henri Pescarolo’s team in a thrilling six-hour race at Estoril. The French pair came out on top in a battle with championship rivals Andrea Belicchi and Jean-Christophe Boullion that lasted nearly the whole distance. The two cars were rarely separated by more than a handful of seconds until the very final stages

Jani puts Rebellion on Estoril pole

September 24th, 2011

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Rebellion driver Neel Jani took pole position for tomorrow’s Le Mans Series decider at Estoril. The Swiss left his run late and jumped straight to the top of the times aboard Rebellion’s lead Lola-Toyota coupe. His 1m30.118s lap around the former home of the Portuguese Grand Prix put him two tenths clear of Julien Jousse’s Pescarolo-Judd

Audi left to rue cost of incidents

September 11th, 2011

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Audi left to rue cost of incidents

Audi was left to rue the cost of two individual incidents which deprived both the #1 and #2 R18s the chance to fight for victory. Early aggression had seen Allan McNish take the lead in a thrilling sequence with Peugeot’s Sebastien Bourdais, but the Scot’s hopes of victory in the #2 Audi were undone when he collided with the #66 JMW Ferrari at Becketts. The damage required two pit stops, the latter a serious overhaul of the front, which put him and Tom Kristenen five laps down and out of the running.

Bourdais hails ‘intense’ Peugeot win

September 11th, 2011

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Bourdais hails ‘intense’ Peugeot win

Sebastien Bourdais said the intensity of the Peugeot/Audi battle made victory in the AUTOSPORT 6 Hours of Silverstone all the sweeter. The tone of the race was set early as Bourdais and Allan McNish in the #2 Audi went head to head even as they encountered traffic, often diving either side of cars and at one point running four abreast with backmarkers down the Hangar straight

Peugeot wins the AUTOSPORT 6 Hours

September 11th, 2011

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Peugeot wins the AUTOSPORT 6 Hours

Simon Pagenaud and Sebastien Bourdais delivered Peugeot the 2011 AUTOSPORT 6 Hours of Silverstone crown after a race-long fight with the #1 Audi. The polesitting 908 was in contention for victory throughout the race, as accidents, traffic and damage proved decisive in another engrossing instalment of the Peugeot/Audi battle. The race swung several times in a breathtaking first hour, as the #2 Audi snatched an early lead ahead of the #7 and #8 Peugeots and sister #1 R18 – around four seconds covering the quartet

Priaulx eyes win on illness return

September 11th, 2011

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Priaulx eyes win on illness return

Andy Priaulx says victory in the AUTOSPORT 6 Hours of Silverstone would be the perfect way to mark his comeback from illness, having missed the last few months to have a tumour removed from his thyroid. The three-time WTCC champion said the break had only re-enforced his passion, motivation and appreciation for racing, and says he returned more determined than ever this weekend. That showed in qualifying, where despite having not sat in the BMW M3 since Le Mans in June he put the #56 second in class.

Q and A: Pagenaud on Silverstone pole

September 10th, 2011

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Q and A: Pagenaud on Silverstone pole

Simon Pagenaud only received a late call-up to compete at the AUTOSPORT 6 Hours of Silverstone after Anthony Davidson failed to recover from the injuries caused in his bike accident. The Frenchman had also never been to Silverstone, and was faced with tricky weather conditions as rain fell infrequently during qualifying. Despite such disadvantages Pagenaud was in scintillating form as he secured pole position for Peugeot, his 1m43.924s effort almost 1s clear of the rest of the field.

Pagenaud wary of Audi threat

September 10th, 2011

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Simon Pagenaud says Audi remain a threat to Peugeot’s hopes of winning the AUTOSPORT 6 Hours of Silverstone despite his impressive margin in qualifying.

Strakka to compete in LMP1 next year

September 10th, 2011

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Strakka Racing will step up to LMP1 next year, after making the decision to enter the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship. The decision comes on the back of a hugely successful two seasons in LMP2 for the British privateer team, including a fifth place finish at the 2010 Le Mans 24 Hours – the highest ever for a P2 entry.

Peugeot on AUTOSPORT 6 Hours pole

September 10th, 2011

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Peugeot on AUTOSPORT 6 Hours pole

Simon Pagenaud earned Peugeot pole position for the AUTOSPORT 6 Hours of Silverstone in tricky qualifying conditions.

Sarrazin sets new Silverstone benchmark

September 10th, 2011

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Peugeot completed a clean sweep of AUTOSPORT 6 Hours practice at Stephane Sarrazin set a new benchmark in a truncated final session at Silverstone.

Pagenaud keeps Peugeot on top

September 9th, 2011

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Simon Pagenaud kept Peugeot on top in Silverstone practice with a phenomenal effort that left him more than 1.5s clear of the field. The Frenchman, deputising for the injured Anthony Davidson, traded fastest laps with Audi’s Allan McNish in the early stages of practice, but at the half-way mark found more than three seconds as he blazed to a 1m44.945s. Given that times had been centred in the low 1m47s it seemed that benchmark would remain unbeaten and so it proved.

Sarrazin puts Peugeot top in FP1

September 9th, 2011

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Stephane Sarrazin denied Audi a 1-2 finish with a late flying effort in the opening practice session of the AUTOSPORT 6 Hours of Silverstone. The No.8 Peugeot 908 Sarrazin shares with Franck Montagny had languished a little during the session, dropping as low as seventh before Sarrazin jumped into the lead ten minutes from the end.

Davidson to miss Silverstone race

September 7th, 2011

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Davidson to miss Silverstone race

Anthony Davidson will be forced to miss this weekend’s AUTOSPORT 6 Hours at Silverstone after his bicycle accident.

Quifel ASM withdraws from LMS

August 10th, 2011

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Quifel ASM withdraws from LMS

The Quifel ASM team has withdrawn from the remainder of this year’s Le Mans Series due to its poor performances earlier in the year. The Portuguese squad, which won the LMP2 title in the 2009 LMS, stepped up to the top LMP1 class this year with a Zytek, but has suffered from numerous reliability problems and did not compete at the most recent round at Imola as it attempted to rectify those issues

Quifel ASM pulls out of Imola

June 20th, 2011

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Quifel ASM pulls out of Imola

The Quifel ASM team has withdrawn from the next round of the Le Mans Series and Intercontinental Le Mans Cup at Imola in a fortnight. A statement from the squad, which runs an LMP1 Zytek for Olivier Pla and Miguel Amaral, said poor engine reliability so far this season had prompted its decision