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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.
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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.
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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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Berry and Caudill Jr. Visit Victory Lane at Indianapolis
by Nicholas Morse on November 16th, 2009
The iRacing Oval Pro Series visited the historic Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the first time last Wednesday and two stellar drivers claimed the inaugural victories at the legendary race track. The always dangerous Josh Berry grabbed the victory in the first split of the night and part time driver Jim Caudill Jr. took the victory in the second split.
Berry started on pole and led 49 laps en route to victory at the Brickyard.
In the first of two splits, Berry started on the pole en-route to his eighth victory of the season. It was only Berry’s sixth pole this season but it proved to be a valuable one as he led 49 laps before crossing the finish line in first. Berry increased his iRating by 40 points and also increased his Safety Rating up by .08 points to a perfect rating of 4.99. Berry cut the fastest lap of the race, a 50.645 and earned 290 points for his victory. It was Berry’s 20th top-five in 24 starts and he currently sits fifth in the point standings.
Finishing second was road-racing specialist, and iRacing Road Pro Series points leader, Luke McLean. McLean led 28 laps on the way to his runner-up finish from the third starting position. McLean earned a strong 276 points for his second place finish and increased his iRating by 71 points. He also increased his Safety Rating by .31 points. It was McLean’s eighth top-five finish in only 17 starts and he currently has two wins on the season. McLean has one pole so far this season and currently sits 30th in the iRacing Oval Pro Series standings, having missed one week of racing.
Banerjee leads Brad Wright (#14) and Justin Kirby (#19) in the early going on Wednesday.
Third was the Georgia driver, Robert Hall. Hall started midpack in the 12th position but put together a consistent strategy to get up to the podium. Hall earned 262 points for his third place finish and increased his iRating by 82 points. He also increased his Safety Rating by .16 points to a strong 4.46 rating. This was Hall’s second top-five finish this season in 18 starts, having only run 13 of the 15 weeks so far this season. Hall currently sits 65th in the point standings but is sure to move up when the drop weeks come into play.
Coming in fourth was Daniel Pope II, who started second while Andrew Fayash III finished fifth ahead of Sandeep Banerjee.
In the second split, it was Jim Caudill Jr. grabbing his first victory of his iRacing Oval Pro Series career. Caudill Jr. started on the pole and led 35 laps en-route to his first victory in the series. Caudill Jr. earned a large 292 points for his victory and increased both his iRating (by 84 points) and his Safety Rating (by .16 points) to a strong 4.33 overall. This was his ninth top-five in only 16 starts and his fifth pole of the season. Caudill Jr. currently sits 39th in points but has only run 11 of the 15 weeks so far this season and so will move into the top-25 in the point standings once the drop weeks come into effect after week 19. Had Caudill Jr. run all the weeks so far this season, he would sit 11th in the point standings.
Finishing second was the New England driver, Josh Parker. Parker led 28 laps after starting fifth and earned 278 points for his runner up position. Parker increased his iRating by 54 points andhis Safety Rating by .31 points. It was Parker’s 24th top-5 this season in 30 starts and he currently sits second in the point standings with 10 wins, five poles and an average finish of sixth place.
Coming in third place was consistent driver, Bryan Blackford. Blackford started back in the 13th position but worked his way to the front during the 80 lap race. Blackford earned 264 points and increased his iRating by 94 points for his efforts. The third place was Blackford’s ninth top-five finish in 28 starts, giving him an average finish of 10th place. Blackford currently sits 11th in the point standings and has a strong average points per race average of 227.46.
There are three more scheduled races this week for the iRacing Oval Pro Series at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway before the series heads to Martinsville for the 16th week of the season.