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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.
Patrick Atherton
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.
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.
Editor’s Welcome
by David Phillips on September 2nd, 2009
Welcome to inRacingNews, the first publication to bring you all the news from the world’s foremost race simulation service together with the latest developments from Formula One, NASCAR, IndyCar, ALMS, Grand-Am and other top professional racing series.
Race simulation has become increasingly sophisticated and popular in the past twenty years, evolving from primitive video games to an avocation enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of people who lack the time, money or opportunity to race cars in the physical world. In addition to being just plain fun, sim-racing develops many of the physical and mental skills required in real-world racing, be it sustained concentration, hand-eye coordination or the ability to dispassionately analyze the performance of a race car and make the mechanical changes necessary to enable it to go faster.
At the same time, with race sanctioning bodies imposing ever more draconian restrictions on testing and with racing budgets of even the largest automotive manufacturers under minute scrutiny, race simulation assumes an ever more critical role in the development of race cars, and the men and women who drive them. From the days when Jacques Villeneuve used video games to familiarize himself with Spa and Monza as an F1 rookie, to the point where multi-million dollar race simulation machines are a fixture in the shops of today’s leading professional teams . . . and an iRacer in Sydney can find himself running wheel-to-wheel with Dale Earnhardt, Jr. or Alex Gurney on a virtual Daytona International Speedway . . . sim-racing has become an integral element of the fabric of modern motorsport.
Sim-racer in Sydney or real-world racer at Daytona, the one thing they have in common is a passion for racing. inRacingNews is committed to fueling that passion, and to bringing you the important news in sim- and real-world racing in a single and engaging publication. If you have half the fun reading inRacingNews as we have putting it together, we will have accomplished our mission.
Enjoy.
David Phillips, Editor
inRacingNews
Lasse
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:22 pmThanks for all the hard work behind both this site, and in particular the whole iRacing service.
With that said; This site looks like it have got a big potential so combine, the need for motorsport news all over the world combined with the attraction to see whats up in our favorite simracing community.
Beside this; A little work on the speed on the site would be nice. I don’t know if its just the pressure of posting on the “press room” on iRacing.com, that makes this site run like a old fat cat on a monday morning.
Greets from Denmark
Michael Baley
September 2nd, 2009 at 9:24 pmThis is a brilliant idea. I am certain it will be done in a very professional manner. Thank you for yet another added bonus for our subscription.
Michael
Mike Bennett
September 2nd, 2009 at 10:50 pmNice site. I really like the layout and UI. Some news site are so clumsy to get to the news. Plus, either you’ve got some scoops or you are picking up on some stuff my other sites have chosen not to report. Either way, I’m impressed.
I’ve not been on iRacing in over a year but I still like to keep up to date with how it’s going so the site serves a nice dual purpose too.
Bookmarked!
All the best!
Sean Staples
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:17 pmGreat work! Not only can I keep up with iRacing news, I can follow the rest of the motorsports world as well, all in the same place, that’s awesome…
Lincoln Miner
September 2nd, 2009 at 11:27 pmVery impressive site. Great place to get real world and iRacing news! Brilliant!
William Kabela
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:10 amNice clean site, easy to navigate and full of interesting information for everyone. Looks like David is going to be a busy man
Jeff Thomas
September 3rd, 2009 at 3:29 amloving it.. awesome, great idea….Keep it current, keep it rocking… good move iRacing!
JT
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CP
September 3rd, 2009 at 1:13 pmLooking good!
Chuck Johnson
September 3rd, 2009 at 4:28 pmWelcome David. It is great to see this site up and running and in good hands.
This should be a great combination.
Thomas Harmon
September 3rd, 2009 at 10:53 pmare you guys going to send news briefs to our e-mail? thanks Tom***
Laurent Smith
September 5th, 2009 at 11:04 amBrilliant idea. I hope our iRacing race reviews can suscite as much enthousiasm as real world race.
One suggestion, if I may: It would be a welcome addition to clearly indicate the source of each one of the articles in the second line alongside Date, Comments and Share.
David Beattie
September 7th, 2009 at 12:30 amexactly what i have been wanting
thanks a bunch 