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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.
Ray Bryden
Technical contributorRay 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.
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Contributing WriterPatrick 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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
24 Winners in iRacing.com Indy 12,000
by David Phillips on May 30th, 2010
Two dozen iRacers shared the glory of winning Saturday’s inaugural iRacing.com Indy 500, aka Round Six of the World Tour of iRacing. The 24 sim racers completed 4800 virtual laps of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway’s venerable 2.5 mile oval, for a total of 12,000 virtual miles.
More than 750 iRacers competed in the event, which was segmented into one online race for Oval Rookie and D License holders and another for C Licenses and higher. The Oval Rookie/D races attracted 246 iRacers, producing eight splits, while 513 iRacers entered the C and higher races, resulting in 16 splits of 32 and 33 sim racers.
More than 750 iRacers took a shot at winning the virtual Indy 500
Oval Rookie/D winners included Peter Burke (Midwest), Kyle Carlson (Illinois), Frank Herfjord (Scandinavia), Dan Gradinaru (International), James Becker (Illinois), Brian Spotts (Florida), Mark Truxal (Indiana) and Dave Pugh (West). Rob Kodey (Virginias), Kevin Debusk (Mid-South), James Hunter (Massachusetts), Bryan Goddard (California), Daniel Engstrom (Scandinavia), Frank Dupuy (France), Dmitiry Guller (New Jersey) and Joe Duncan (Australia) finished second Third place finishers were Daniel Franzke2 (DE-AT-CH), Alex Koster (Benelux), Michael Moose (New York), Duane Ockenfels (Midwest), Matt Blager (Illinois), Laurent Gouviez (France), Tim Robson (Australia) and Brent Huffman (Indiana).
Pugh led the most laps of any competitor (151) while Franzke2 set the fastest lap of the Oval Rookie/D racers at 40.161s. Gradinaru edged Goddard for the closest margin of victory (1.373s) while Carlson won by 67 laps (!) over Debusk.
Not everyone completed the full Indy 500.
Justin Dalsant (Florida), Eugene Mozgunov (International), Jason Hurst (Midwest), Matteo Bortolotti (Italy), Henrik Muller (DE-AT-CH), Ray Zercut (West), Don Parrish (Florida), Peter Chamberlain (England), Steve Wright (Carolina), Brad Eisenberg (California), Gord Jeannotte (Eastern Canada), Bertram Redmeijer (Benelux), Ryan Cowley (West), David Mutton (Australia), Michael Beiswenger (Mid-South) and Sergey Zakharov (International) emerged victories from the 16 C and higher splits. Second places went to Tim Doyle (Atlantic), Patrick Veillette (Eastern Canada), Corey Harrelson (Carolina), Mike Kelley (Plains), Terence Riddle (Michigan), Craig Vitter (Virginias), Juergen Voss (DE-AT-CH), Tim Hamilton (New Jersey), Charles Buscher (California), Janez Cimerman (International), Christopher Bull (England), Stephen Berry (Plains), Roger Espinosa (Florida), Michael Nylen (Australia), Joe Stalans (Mid-South) and Maurice Smith (New York).
Ray Alfalla (Florida) and Martin Blais (Eastern Canada) took home third place finishes from their splits, as did Riccardo Casiragh (Italy), Rene Venderbosch (Benelux), Adam Miles (England), Chris McGowen (Northwest), Mrs. S P Ledger (England), Ryan Terpstra (Michigan), Scott Bennett (Indiana), Matthew Myers (Ohio), Robert Childress II (Northwest), Vic Greenwood (Eastern Canada), Charles Sanchez (Texas), Takeshi Shibuki (International), Gary Holbrook (New England), Chris Hofmann (Carolina).
Justin Dalsant won his split and set the fastest lap of the day.
Hurst led the most laps of any competitor (137) while Dalsant set the fastest lap at 39.631s. Parrish pipped Voss by just .038s for the smallest margin of victory. In contrast, Jeannotte came home 14 laps (!) clear of Bull.
The next round of the World Tour of iRacing.com is set for June 19 with the iRacing.com Road America 200 featuring Chevy Impala SS Bs.
Peter Chamberlain
May 30th, 2010 at 11:31 pmErrm….i’m not from Massachusetts, i’m from England.
Bill LaChappelle
May 30th, 2010 at 11:39 pmCongratulations to all the winners and podium finishers. Does anybody know how many racers were running at the end of the 24 splits? 759 started, but how many stuck with it through the finish?
Charles Sanchez
May 31st, 2010 at 12:55 amImpala SS Class B’s at Road America… I don’t get it?
wayne
May 31st, 2010 at 4:10 amhi guys
is there a reply of the indy race, i missed it.
notjustbrakes@gmail.com
Don Parrish
May 31st, 2010 at 11:04 amOn the Members page you have my name as Dave Parrish, please correct this.
Tony Rickard
May 31st, 2010 at 11:08 am> Impala SS Class B’s at Road America… I don’t get it?
NASCAR NATIONWIDE SERIES TO RACE ROAD AMERICA IN 2010
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Dec. 21, 2009) – NASCAR announced today that it will continue its 17-year streak of racing on a national-series level in Wisconsin with the addition of the historic Road America course to its 2010 NASCAR Nationwide Series schedule.
Henrik Müller
May 31st, 2010 at 11:59 amCan’t wait to get back into the car. Looking forward to the next year and to defend the title.
Great race! Thanks to everybody who drove in this event.
Dave M
May 31st, 2010 at 2:14 pmi cant believe i came from a lap down and dead last on lap 10 from a restart black flag to win this thing and a0inc , im over the moon
Thanks IRacing, great event! cant wait for more of the world tour events!
Evgeny Garanin
May 31st, 2010 at 4:32 pmhey Gratz Dave Pugh
I finished 4th in that race =)
Dennis Dalla
June 1st, 2010 at 1:27 amWe had 10 drivers finish on the lead lap with 2 green flag pit stops.
Michal Saidl
June 1st, 2010 at 1:28 pmHi, saw Don is asking to change his name on the members page… so I have the same problem, I have Erkan KIRCA there, but I’m Michal Saidl. Sent a mail already on Thursday last week.
Tyler King
June 3rd, 2010 at 3:53 pmMan, i would have won my race at half way i was leading and my steering wheel comes unpluged and i wreck out >.< Congrats to Steve Wright on the win in that and thanks to all that entered this amazing event
Tyler King
June 3rd, 2010 at 3:54 pmMan i shoulda won my race but at halfway i was leading and my wheel comes unpluged >.< Congrats to Steve Wright on the win in that race and thank you for everyone who entered the event.