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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.

Chilton tops Silverstone practice

October 15th, 2011

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Tom Chilton topped the 29-car British Touring Car field at Silverstone as Ford dominated the first free practice session this morning. Mat Jackson set the pace for much of the session in his Motorbase Focus

Q and A with Alan Gow

October 12th, 2011

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Q and A with Alan Gow

Provided by the BTCC press office Q: Coming into the final round of the season, five drivers in four different makes of car racing for four different teams can all win the championship. The top three are covered by just five points

Gow: Parity measures correct

October 12th, 2011

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Gow: Parity measures correct

British Touring Car Championship chief Alan Gow believes that his TOCA organisation has got it right with the measures used to ensure parity between the different types of cars in the series this year. There has been discontent from many teams and drivers in the paddock this year over the performance balancing measures used to ensure equality between Super 2000 cars using both normally-aspirated and turbocharged engines, and the new-for-2011 NGTC machines.

Peugeot wants consistency from Wilks

October 12th, 2011

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Peugeot wants consistency from Wilks

Peugeot Sport competitions manager Frederic Bertrand has called for more consistency from Guy Wilks if the Englishman is to continue as a 207 S2000 driver in next year’s Intercontinental Rally Challenge. Wilks has only managed one podium this season and crashed out of last weekend’s Rally of Scotland, having led the event for the first three stages. Peugeot UK is currently in negotiations with Peugeot France to discuss the potential for continuing in the IRC, and a decision is expected soon

Thompson returns with Motorbase

October 12th, 2011

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Thompson returns with Motorbase

James Thompson will make a surprise return to the British Touring Car Championship at Silverstone this weekend with the Motorbase Ford team. The two-time series champion will drive the team’s third turbocharged Focus – as raced by Michael Caine at the past two rounds – in a bid to boost Mat Jackson’s hopes of winning both the overall and independent drivers’ championships

De Ferran replaces di Grassi at Surfers

October 11th, 2011

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De Ferran replaces di Grassi at Surfers

Gil de Ferran will replace Lucas di Grassi at the Armor All Gold Coast 600 V8 Supercars race, organisers announced on Tuesday.

Thorney unveils NGTC Insignia

October 10th, 2011

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Thorney unveils NGTC Insignia

Thorney Motorsport has unveiled the NGTC-spec Vauxhall Insignia it will run in the British Touring Car Championship finale. The car, which will be driven by team owner John Thorne at Silverstone this weekend will be powered by the TOCA turbocharged engine initially

Mikkelsen claims breakthrough win

October 9th, 2011

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Mikkelsen claims breakthrough win

Andreas Mikkelsen finally clinched his first Intercontinental Rally Challenge win in Scotland, having protected his lead through the final stages at Scone Palace. The Norwegian had narrowly missed out on wins in the prevous two IRC rounds – crashing with victory in sight in Hungary, then being pipped by Thierry Neuville in a final stage showdown in Sanremo. But in Scotland he drove flawlessly, battling with Guy Wilks early on, before emerging with a commanding lead when the Peugeot driver went off on Saturday morning

Mikkelsen on brink of maiden win

October 9th, 2011

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Mikkelsen on brink of maiden win

Andreas Mikkelsen is on course for his maiden Intercontinental Rally Challenge victory with just two short stages to go, despite a scare when he picked up another puncture on High Corrie. The Skoda UK driver’s lead had been reduced to 28 seconds over Juho Hanninen when a puncture cost him time on the earlier run through High Corrie

Wilks discovers suspension issue

October 9th, 2011

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Wilks discovers suspension issue

The Kronos-run Peugeot UK team has discovered that a suspension issue was a contributory factor in Guy Wilks’ crash while fighting for the Rally of Scotland lead yesterday. The 2009 event winner was trying to regain the lead he had recently lost to Andreas Mikkelsen when he went off on Errochty and lost six minutes.

Mikkelsen confident of keeping lead

October 9th, 2011

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Mikkelsen confident of keeping lead

Andreas Mikkelsen remains relaxed about his chances of hanging on to the Rally of Scotland lead through the final four stages this afternoon. Juho Hanninen closed to within 28 seconds of Mikkelsen by winning SS11, where the Skoda UK driver had a puncture

Mikkelsen leads as Hanninen closes

October 9th, 2011

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Mikkelsen leads as Hanninen closes

Andreas Mikkelsen continues to lead the Rally of Scotland, but his advantage over Juho Hanninen is down to under half a minute. Skoda UK’s Mikkelsen had begun the day 50 seconds clear of the field. Reigning Intercontinental Rally Challenge champion Hanninen won today’s opening stage in his Skoda, but Mikkelsen was slightly quicker on SS10

IRC drivers back stage cancellation

October 9th, 2011

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The competitors on the Rally of Scotland have praised the organisers’ decision to cancel last night’s second run through the Drummond Hill stage. The final test of day one on the Perth-based event had been scheduled to run in the dark, but the conditions were deemed too difficult to go back in there for a second run

Hanninen: Mikkelsen is out of reach

October 9th, 2011

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Skoda factory driver Juho Hanninen says his chance of winning Rally of Scotland has gone and he will now focus on the battle for second place. Hanninen starts today’s final seven stages one second behind Peugeot driver Bryan Bouffier, having struggled to find a comfortable set-up with the Fabia yesterday. “The chance for me to win this rally is very small,” said Hanninen.

Mikkelsen to play it safe on final day

October 9th, 2011

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Rally of Scotland leader Andreas Mikkelsen has taken what he described as a safe set-up for his Skoda on the final day of the event. The Skoda UK Motorsport driver holds a 50-second lead over Peugeot’s Bryan Bouffier and with just 50 competitive miles today, the Norwegian is hoping to seal his first Intercontinental Rally Challenge success this afternoon.

Tander/Percat win Bathurst thriller

October 9th, 2011

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Tander/Percat win Bathurst thriller

Garth Tander and Nick Percat clinched victory for the Holden Racing Team by just 0.29 seconds over Triple Eight Holden’s Craig Lowndes in an outstanding finish to the Bathurst 1000. Lowndes, who shared his car with Mark Skaife, had gone into the closing stages only fourth, passing Brad Jones Racing’s Jason Bright with 16 laps of the 161 to go, then overtaking pole-winner Greg Murphy (Kelly Racing Holden) three laps later

Mikkelsen pulls clear in Scotland

October 8th, 2011

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Andreas Mikkelsen will take a 50.7-second lead into the final day of the Rally of Scotland, having maintained a superb pace at the front of the field to pull clear of his nearest rivals. Only two of this afternoon’s planned three stages were run as heavy rain meant conditions on the scheduled Drummond Hill closer were declared too bad for the stage to go ahead.

Struggling Hanninen gets radical

October 8th, 2011

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Last year’s Rally of Scotland winner Juho Hanninen is making radical changes to his Skoda Fabia S2000 in an attempt to find some pace from the car before this afternoon’s stages.

Bogie happy to be first on the road

October 8th, 2011

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Recently crown British and Scottish Rally champion David Bogie says running first on the road on the opening day of his home Intercontinental Rally Challenge round, the Rally of Scotland, is more of a pleasure than a hindrance. Bogie currently holds 10th overall in his Group N Mitsubishi – just six seconds behind former Pirelli Star Driver Jarkko Nikara, who leads the Production Cup standings in a similar car. “There’s great support out there this morning, everybody’s waving the flags and cheering – it’s been fantastic,” said Bogie

Proton thrilled with Andersson’s speed

October 8th, 2011

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Proton Motorsports team principal Chris Mellors is delighted with the pace P-G Andersson has shown through the morning Rally of Scotland stages. Andersson is fourth after five stages, just four seconds adrift of a podium place. Unfortunately for the British-based team, Alister McRae has been forced to retire the sister Satria Neo S2000 from ninth place after the sump was damaged on Errochty.