- iRacing.com Announces iRacing 2.013,022
- iRacing.com to create virtual McLaren MP4-12C GT39,258
- Scanning What’s in Store for iRacing with Tony Gardner7,385
- Dave Kaemmer Comes Clean on Dirt7,371
- The iRacing.com Protest System – May, 20126,643
- Improving the Sound of iRacing5,620
- iRacing 2.0 Debuts in 2011 Season 34,927
- Preview Shots of HPD ARX-01C, Ford GT & Suzuka4,889
- Two New Cars and Two New Tracks Coming to iRacing Soon4,789
- iRacing.com to Build Digital Honda for New Super GT Series4,458
- iRacing.com Announces iRacing 2.0 41
- Dave Kaemmer Comes Clean on Dirt 32
- The iRacing.com Protest System - May, 2012 30
- iRacing's Corvette: Good Enough is Not Good Enough 23
- No Obstacles Here 18
- iRacing.com to Build Digital Honda for New Super GT Series 11
- BRDC International Trophy Silverstone 10
- An Interesting Year, Part I 8
- iRacing.com to create virtual McLaren MP4-12C GT3 8
- FPS is Still King 5
- iRacing.com2335
- NASCAR 1891
- Motorcycles 1843
- Formula Cars 1705
- WRC 1427
- IndyCar 1296
- Touring Cars 873
- Sports Cars 307
- Other Racing 355
David Phillips
Editor and ChiefDavid 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 WriterChris 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 Writer19 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 WriterJason 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 WriterTim 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 WriterNorth 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 WriterAllen 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.
Alonso: Ferrari wants ‘dominant’ car
December 19th, 2011
Fernando Alonso says Ferrari is going all out to produce a ‘dominant’ Formula 1 car for next year, after praising the determination that he has seen at its Maranello factory this week.
The Spaniard claims that his outfit is eager to enjoy the success that Red Bull Racing has experienced for the last two campaigns, which is why it has been willing to take more risks with the design of its 2012 challenger.
And after seeing the new car in the windtunnel this week, Alonso says he is convinced Ferrari is putting in the effort that will allow it to hit back in style at the start of next season.
“I’ve seen the car as I’ve been to Maranello for four days,” said Alonso during a Santander press conference in Madrid on Monday. “I’ve only seen the windtunnel version, but we have to wait.
“At this point of the season we all think we have the best car ahead of next year. We have to wait until February when he put in on the track, to see the results and to see how fast it can go.
“What’s clear is that everybody in the team is very, very motivated ahead of next year. There’s an urge to gain the ground lost and get the feeling that Red Bull has had for the past two years.
“Tasting wins and championships is something Ferrari is used to doing in the past decade and it’s something we want to do again. From the first mechanic to the last designer, I’ve seen an atmosphere of full focus and a huge desire to get a dominant car.
“So I’m relatively calm and I’m confident that things will go well, because Ferrari has the ability to build a winning car. It’s the best team and I think all the necessary details are being looked at so nothing fails.”
Alonso thinks that Red Bull Racing will not be able to eke out much more speed from the successor to its brilliant RB7, but feels his team will be able to make much bigger steps for next year.
“I think we are going to go up,” he explained. “Red Bull has a car that is very well developed, a very good car. Improving that car is possible, and they will improve it, but they don’t have such a big margin to improve, unlike us.
“We had aerodynamic problems when the windtunnel wasn’t working well. We had a different philosophy to adapt to the Pirellis, a different philosophy for the suspension and many other things. So we have a big margin to improve.
“So I think they will improve by X per cent, and we are going to improve by X by two, so it’s all going to be much closer.”
And although the team is pushing hard to give itself a big margin in the championship battle, Alonso thinks that the fight for victories on track in 2012 will be tremendously close.
“We know our rivals will be very strong and whoever wins next year’s championship will win it by a tenth or two in the car,” he said. “There aren’t going to be huge gaps.
“For the car we have taken some measures and used some innovations that probably wouldn’t have been used in previous years because of Ferrari’s more conservative approach. So all this makes us feel optimistic.”