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February 2012

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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.

Stanaway makes ART move

August 22nd, 2011

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Stanaway makes ART move

Richie Stanaway will make his GP3 Series debut at Spa this weekend after signing a two-race deal with reigning champion team ART Grand Prix. The 19-year-old New Zealander won last year’s ADAC Formel Masters title and currently leads the German F3 championship after winning nine times already in his maiden season in the category. “Just found out I will be driving in the last two race weekends of the GP3 Series with ART Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps & Monza,” Stanaway wrote on his Twitter feed.

Raikkonen to test Peugeot’s LMP1

August 22nd, 2011

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Raikkonen to test Peugeot’s LMP1

Kimi Raikkonen will test the Peugeot 908 Le Mans car at Spanish circuit Motorland Aragon on Wednesday. It is understood that it could lead to a possible outing in next year’s Le Mans 24 Hours, with Peugeot keen to evaluate Raikkonen’s speed in the car. Raikkonen has admitted that he is keen on competing at Le Mans, but if he was to do so, he would want an expanded programme of races for the marque

Graf and Luhr take narrow Elkhart win

August 21st, 2011

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Muscle Milk Lola-Aston Martin duo Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr inched closer to Dyson’s Guy Smith and Chris Dyson in the American Le Mans Series title race by taking their fourth win of the year in the Road America round. Though the Lola-Aston had looked comfortable in the lead in the middle section of the four-hour event, the Dyson Lola-Mazda had a second wind in Smith’s hands in the last half hour and put Graf under huge pressure through the final laps.

Graf gives Muscle Milk Elkhart pole

August 19th, 2011

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Klaus Graf put the Muscle Milk Lola-Aston Martin on pole for the second time this year in American Le Mans Series qualifying at Road America.

Lola reveals cost-capped LMP2 coupe

August 16th, 2011

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Lola reveals cost-capped LMP2 coupe

Lola has announced it will introduce a cost-capped LMP2 coupe for 2012. The B12/80 is a response to the latest low-budget LMP2 ethos and will be the first coupe for the class’s new era.

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

Luhr and Graf win in Mid-Ohio deluge

August 6th, 2011

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Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf gave the Muscle Milk Lola-Aston squad its second straight ALMS victory as a late deluge caused the race to be halted 15 minutes from the finish. Luhr assumed control of the race with just over an hour to run, jumping the pole-sitting Dyson Lola-Mazda of Guy Smith and Simon Dyson – which had led for much of the race – at a restart before easing away at the head of the field. Luhr then handed over to Graf, who had to survive a huge rainstorm and a spate of safety cars in the final 30 minutes.

Smith gives Dyson Mid Ohio pole

August 5th, 2011

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Guy Smith took his third pole position of the season for Saturday’s American Le Mans Series race at Mid Ohio, having delivered on his promise from first practice. For five laps or so Klaus Graf – fastest in second practice – was the only man on track with the Muscle Milk Lola Aston Martin. The German set a best time of 1m12.892s, but once the Dyson Mazda Lolas went on track, that all changed

Haryanto takes last-gasp GP3 win

July 31st, 2011

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Rio Haryanto capitalised on a late race safety car to steal victory from Nigel Melker in the second GP3 race of the weekend at the Hungaroring. Manor driver Haryanto had charged from ninth on the grid to second by lap eight in the wet conditions, by which time pole-sitter Melker was a long way down the road. The RSC Mucke man had his lead up to 7.9 seconds when the safety car came out on lap 12, after Thomas Hylkema crashed coming out of Turn 2

Sims excluded, Bottas leads series

July 30th, 2011

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Sims excluded, Bottas leads series

Alexander Sims has been excluded from the first GP3 race at the Hungaroring, handing the championship lead to race winner Valtteri Bottas. Bottas initially moved up to second in the points with his victory, while Sims retained the lead in the standings by coming home fourth. However, the Briton’s Status Grand Prix car was excluded from the race following scrutineering on Saturday evening, where it failed the rear floor height check.

Bottas takes narrow victory

July 30th, 2011

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Bottas takes narrow victory

Valtteri Bottas sustained race-long pressure from Michael Christensen to take a lights-to-flag victory in the first GP3 race of the weekend at the Hungaroring.

Bottas leads all-ART GP3 front row

July 30th, 2011

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Valtteri Bottas took pole position for the first GP3 race of the weekend at the Hungaroring, as ART Grand Prix repeated its one-two performance from free practice. The Finn dominated the session, setting multiple laps good enough for first place in the early running.

Bottas tops second GP3 practice

July 29th, 2011

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Bottas tops second GP3 practice

Valtteri Bottas led an ART Grand Prix one-two in the second GP3 free practice session at the Hungaroring. The Finn edged his team-mate and this morning’s pacesetter James Calado by just 0.064 seconds, while the pair enjoyed a gap of 0.2s over their closest challenger. That role eventually went to Addax’s Tom Dillmann, who made a late improvement to jump Mitch Evans (MW Arden) for third place with just over a minute to go

Aston switches back to old car

July 29th, 2011

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Aston switches back to old car

Aston Martin Racing will revert to its old Lola-based car for the remaining rounds of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup plus the Laguna Seca American Le Mans Series event after the issues with its new AMR-One LMP1 so far. The team had hoped that its latest challenger would be able to take the fight to the Peugeot and Audi diesel LMP1s, but has struggled for both speed and reliability in its only two appearances so far at the Paul Ricard Le Mans Series race and the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Calado fastest as Bacheta crashes

July 29th, 2011

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James Calado grabbed top spot in final seconds of the first GP3 free practice session of the weekend at the Hungaroring. The Briton was one of the final cars across the line before the chequered flag, and that meant that his lap was the last of the significant runners. Lewis Williamson and Tom Dillmann had both enjoyed very brief spells at the top, but Calado then put a significant chunk of time between himself and the field with his final lap.

Muscle Milk dominates at Mosport

July 24th, 2011

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The Muscle Milk Lola-Aston Martin of Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf notched up its second American Le Mans Series race win of the year at Mosport Park. Luhr absolutely dominated the opening stages, stretching out a 54-second advantage over Chris Dyson’s Dyson Lola-Mazda in the first half hour.

Bottas takes maiden series win

July 24th, 2011

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Bottas takes maiden series win

Valtteri Bottas took his maiden GP3 victory in race two at the Nurburgring, leading throughout in wet conditions. The ART driver put in a storming first lap to go from sixth to the lead in just seven corners. From there, he built a lead of more than five seconds over pole-sitter Tamas Pal Kiss, who held onto second place until lap four when Alexander Sims got through.

Muscle Milk tops Mosport qualifying

July 23rd, 2011

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Klaus Graf and the Muscle Milk team rebounded from a practice crash to take LMP1 pole position for the American Le Mans Series’ Mosport Park round. Graf had spun into the barriers near the end of this morning’s first practice session, forcing repairs that sidelined the Lola-Aston Martin for much of practice two as well

Haryanto wins rain-hit GP3 thriller

July 23rd, 2011

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Rio Haryanto survived the chaos caused by a late-race downpour to take his first GP3 win of the season at the Nurburgring. The Indonesian took the lead from Lewis Williamson (MW Arden) as the rain that had been hovering around the track for most of the race started to get much heavier, and everyone tried to hang on to their cars on slick tyres

Evans on pole at Nurburgring

July 23rd, 2011

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Evans on pole at Nurburgring

Mitch Evans took pole position for the first GP3 race of the weekend at the Nurburgring, in a session where the top four cars were covered by less than one tenth of a second. The former championship leader snatched top spot in the final two minutes of a session which came alive once the leading runners got their second sets of tyres up to temperature with just over five minutes remaining. In the frantic activity that followed, early provisional pole-sitter Tom Dillmann initially extended his gap over the field to a comfortable half a second.