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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.

Formula One

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Schumi’s Second Coming Headlines 2010 Opener

March 9th, 2010

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Michael Schumacher, one of the most successful drivers in the history of the sport, is making his return to Formula One this season after three years in retirement. If the 41-year-old Schumacher will be able to regain his former glory is just one of the many fascinating plots in the upcoming F-1 season that kicks off in Bahrain on March 14.

Schumacher, who quit Ferrari after a 14-year relationship to join Mercedes, will be going up against reigning world champion Jenson Button, who has joined 2008 title winner Lewis Hamilton at McLaren.

Joining the fray are Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa at Ferrari, Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber at Red Bull, Schumacher’s teammate Nico Rosberg and the rest of the lineup.

Meanwhile, the Lotus brand returns to F-1 for the first time since 1994. Joining Lotus as new entries on the grid will be Virgin and HRT.

On the rules front, the biggest change this season is that no refueling will be allowed during the race.

“There are a whole lot of new nuances that will come from no refueling and will make F-1 just as interesting as before,” says Mercedes team principal and F-1 technical guru Ross Brawn.

There has also been considerable movement on the team and driver fronts. Below is a thumbnail guide charting the changes between the last race in 2009 and the first grand prix of 2010.

Changes For The 2010 Formula One Season

Drivers
MOVES: Jenson Button from Brawn to Mercedes…Fernando Alonso from Renault to Ferrari…Rubens Barrichello from Brawn to Williams…Nico Rosberg from Williams to Mercedes…Jarno Trulli from Toyota to Lotus…Heikki Kovalainen from McLaren to Lotus…Timo Glock from Toyota to Virgin…Robert Kubica from BMW Sauber to Renault…Kamui Kobayashi from Toyota to BMW Sauber
OUT: Kimi Raikkonen, who went off rallying…Nick Heidfeld, who is now a reserve driver for Mercedes…Giancarlo Fisichella, who is now a reserve driver for Ferrari…Kazuki Nakajima, who is out of a ride after Williams did not renew his contract…Romain Grosjean, who struggled to shine as Nelson Piquet, Jr.’s replacement at Renault
IN: Michael Schumacher from retirement to race for Mercedes…Pedro de la Rosa from McLaren’s reserve driver to race for BMW Sauber…Nico Hulkenberg from Williams’ reserve driver to team race driver
ROOKIES: Lucas di Grassi (Virgin), Vitaly Petrov (Renault), Karun Chandhok (HRT) and Bruno Senna (HRT)

Teams
OUT: Toyota, BMW, Brawn and 75 percent of Renault
IN: Sauber, which took over the BMW team…Mercedes, which now owns Brawn…Genii Capital Investments, which now owns 75 percent of Renault
NEW TEAMS: Lotus, Virgin and HRT

Engines
OUT: Toyota and BMW
IN: Cosworth
CHANGES: Williams switched from Toyota to Cosworth while Sauber switched from BMW to Ferrari….all the new teams will use Cosworths

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