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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
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    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.

WTCC welcomes Honda entry

February 6th, 2012

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WTCC welcomes Honda entry

World Touring Car Championship promoter Marcello Lotti believes that Honda’s decision to enter the series means it has achieved its ‘ultimate goal’. Honda announced last week that it would take part in selected rounds at the tail end of this season ahead of a full entry in the 2013 championship with Italian team JAS Motorsport running a pair of new Civics.

Slovakia added to WTCC calendar

February 6th, 2012

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Slovakia added to WTCC calendar

The World Touring Car Championship will visit Slovakia for the first time this year after confirming a date at the Slovakia Ring on April 29. The event replaces the Argentinian round, scheduled for July 8 at Cordoba, that was cancelled last week. “We have been forced to make this change because of the delays in defining the details of the agreement with the local Government,” said WTCC promoter Marcello Lotti

Honda to enter WTCC

February 3rd, 2012

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Honda to enter WTCC

Honda will enter the World Touring Car Championship later this year with a works programme based around its Civic model. The Japanese manufacturer plans to take in “a string of events” later in the season before committing to a full, two-car campaign in 2013

Thompson makes WTCC comeback

February 2nd, 2012

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Thompson makes WTCC comeback

James Thompson will return to the World Touring Car Championship with Lada this year, this week’s AUTOSPORT magazine can reveal.

Argentina off WTCC calendar

January 31st, 2012

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Argentina off WTCC calendar

The World Touring Car Championship has amended its 2012 calendar, dropping Argentina’s provisional round, scheduled for July 8, and replacing it with an event in Europe on April 29.

Bamboo to run works-spec Cruzes

January 30th, 2012

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Bamboo to run works-spec Cruzes

Bamboo Engineering has revealed that it will run two Chevrolet Cruzes in identical specification to the works cars fielded by RML in the World Touring Car Championship this year. The British team has run Chevrolets in some form since running an old Lacetti in the British Touring Car Championship in 2009

Bennani stays with Proteam for 2012

January 23rd, 2012

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Bennani stays with Proteam for 2012

Mehdi Bennani will stay with the Proteam BMW squad for 2012. The 28-year-old Moroccan joined Proteam last year, finishing seventh in the Yokohama Trophy. His best result came in Macau, when he finished sixth in the season finale

Chevrolet gets weight increase

January 23rd, 2012

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Chevrolet gets weight increase

Chevrolet has had the weight of its Cruze model increased by 30kg for this year’s World Touring Car Championship, following its domination of the 2011 series.

Tarquini sticks with SEAT for 2012

January 18th, 2012

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Tarquini sticks with SEAT for 2012

Former World Touring Car champion Gabriele Tarquini will drive a SEAT under the Lukoil Racing banner again in 2012. The 49-year-old Italian will again be partnered with Russian driver Alexey Dudukalo, who Tarquini is mentoring as part of the Lukoil programme.

Coronel staying with ROAL

January 13th, 2012

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Coronel staying with ROAL

Tom Coronel will remain with the ROAL BMW squad for this year’s World Touring Car Championship as the Italian team expands to two cars. The veteran Dutchman, who took a win at Suzuka on his way to fourth in last year’s championship, will be partnered by Alberto Cerqui, who won the Italian Superstars title with the team in 2011 and tested a BMW 320 TC before Christmas

Aon shakedown WTCC Focus

January 4th, 2012

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Aon shakedown WTCC Focus

Team Aon’s new Ford Focus World Touring Car enjoyed a successful first shakedown at Ford’s technical centre at Dunton, Essex, just before the Christmas break. The car, based on the Global Ford Focus which won twice in the BTCC in 2011, conforms to WTCC regulations including a 1.6 engine and spec Yokahama rubber.

LADA to make 2012 WTCC return

December 30th, 2011

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LADA to make 2012 WTCC return

LADA will return to the FIA World Touring Car Championship in 2012 after parent company AVTOVAZ confirmed plans to contest two rounds with the LADA Granta Sport car. The LADA Sport Team will kick off their participation in the fourth round of the 2012 WTCC calendar, at Budapest’s Hungaroring. LADA will then miss the fifth round at the Salzburgring in Austria, but return for the following round at Estoril at the start of June.

Coronel to go into space

December 19th, 2011

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Coronel to go into space

World Touring Car Championship driver Tom Coronel will travel into space in 2014 after signing up to a new Dutch-backed programme.

UK round dropped from 2012 WTCC

December 7th, 2011

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UK round dropped from 2012 WTCC

The World Touring Car Championship will not have a round in the UK in 2012, after the FIA confirmed next season’s calendar. Donington Park, which hosted the 13th and 14th rounds of the championship last year, has been dropped from the calendar, which included new rounds in Argentina, Austria and the USA

Special Tuning eyes WTCC expansion

November 24th, 2011

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Special Tuning eyes WTCC expansion

British Touring Car squad Special Tuning Racing is planning to expand into the World Touring Car Championship next season.

Rankings: Huff moves to all-time high

November 21st, 2011

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Rankings: Huff moves to all-time high

Rob Huff moved to an all-time high in the Castrol EDGE Rankings despite losing out to Chevrolet team-mate Yvan Muller in the fight for the 2011 WTCC title. Huff, who led the championship for the opening 16 races, trailed Muller by 20 points heading into Macau, where he had won three times in the past three years

Muller was ‘stressed’ by grid system

November 21st, 2011

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Muller was ‘stressed’ by grid system

World Touring Car champion Yvan Muller said he allowed himself to become spooked by the series’ new qualifying format in early 2011, and that this impaired his form at the start of his title defence. Muller did not win a race until round eight in Hungary, as Chevrolet team-mate Rob Huff built up an initial points advantage

Muller: Grid system key in slow start

November 21st, 2011

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Muller: Grid system key in slow start

World Touring Car champion Yvan Muller said he allowed himself to become spooked by the series’ new qualifying format in early 2011, and that this impaired his form at the start of his title defence. Muller did not win a race until round eight in Hungary, as Chevrolet team-mate Rob Huff built up an initial points advantage. But the 2010 champion fought back with eight wins in the remaining events and managed to retain his crown.

Huff: I did all I could to win title

November 21st, 2011

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Huff: I did all I could to win title

Rob Huff believes he did all he could to prevent Yvan Muller winning the World Touring Car Championship, despite coming up short against his Chevrolet team-mate at the Macau season finale. Huff, 31, won both races at the demanding Asian street circuit, but finished the season just three points behind Muller, who won his third WTCC title in four years. The British driver, who led the points race during the opening half of the season and won eight races in total, does not think he could have done any more at Macau in his quest to become champion.

Huff says 2011 his finest year

November 20th, 2011

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Rob Huff said he had every reason to be proud of his achievements in the World Touring Car Championship this season, despite missing out on the title by just three points. The Briton did all he could to overhaul Chevrolet team-mate Yvan Muller in Macau, and duly won both races, but it was not enough to prevent his rival walking away with a third title