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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.
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.
Chris Cunningham
Contributing WriterChris is 20 years old, and recently moved to Charlotte, NC during his sophomore year in college to feed his need for speed. More than just an auto racing enthusiast, Cunningham has risen through the ranks of BMX Racing, Sailboat Racing, and Cycling. Cunningham recently took up go karting, and qualified as an alternate for the 2011 Red Bull Kart Fight at the PRI expo. Aside from racing, Cunningham has recently picked up the hobby of competitive eating (Ranked #7 Collegiate Eater in the country!), and competes all over the east coast in various contests. Chris also enjoys sim racing, writing, playing the drums, and enjoying college at UNC Charlotte.
Tim Doyle
Contributing WriterI've been a race fan since before I can remember, going to dirt tracks around the Washington, DC area since the early 70's with my parents. I got away from racing during my school years but in 1989 a friend and I went to a race in Hagerstown, MD and from there my life was all about racing. I currently live in Winchester, VA and while Dirt Late Models is my favorite form of racing, I also enjoy many other forms such as F1, IndyCar, 410 sprint cars on dirt and (probably more than anything) sim racing. My favorite driver is Ayrton Senna.
I was introduced to sim racing in 1989 when a friend turned me onto Indy 500 The Sim by Papyrus. It took me a few years to own my own PC but once I did, all I wanted to do was sim race. I tried to race my friends as much as possible via modem racing back in the 90's before joining TEN in 1998. From there I devoted a lot of time to online racing enjoying every minute of it. I was able to meet a lot of my competitors from all over the world at LAN events and races I went to. Being able to call some real world drivers friends as a result of sim racing is probably the neatest part of this whole deal!
David Roberts
Contributing WriterDavid lives in Brisbane and is a former Australian National Formula Ford Champion who now owns his own marketing and design company. After racing in Europe, David returned down under to swap a career behind the wheel for a career in the creative department. He now has three children, an ongoing love affair with the good ol’ days of motor racing, and just enough spare time left to enjoy a bit of sim-racing with a few of his old mates.
Ben Rothberg
Contributing WriterI was born and raised in the south eastern suburbs of Melbourne where I still am situated. I am currently at University studying for a Certificate in Motorsport and hoping I will be able to achieve my top goal and become a part of a race team. In the sim-racing world, I won an rFactor V8 Supercar season and also was awarded with Best & Fairest award. I am now situated with the best simulation in the world (iRacing.com!) and love every minute of it. I currently race in the V8 Supercar Online Series and finished 16th overall in 2012 Season 1.
Dylan Sharman
Contributing WriterI was born in Adelaide and we moved-out for Angle Vale for a few years until I was about 7 years old, when we moved to the Barossa Valley where I live now. I'm 19 years old and currently traveling back and forth weekly as I’m studying for a Diploma of Furniture Design and Technology.
I’ve always had a love for racing as my close family did some racing and we were always out at the local dirt track. I joined iRacing back in 2010 and slowly but surely got the hang of it as this is my first experience with sim racing and am loving it each time I race. I’ve won two SK Modified titles (almost had three in a row but finished P2 in 2011 S4), an inRacingNews Challenge championship (2012 S1 Mazda) and was also an AustralAsian Intel GT Series Finalist.
GRAND-AM Homestead
by Chris Hall on December 1st, 2010
The GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series headed to the digital replica of the Homestead-Miami Speedway Road Course (B config), for Round Four of its 12 week season. The online racing series, open to PC owners with a subscription to the iRacing Motorsport Simulation service, pits the Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S together in online, class-separated races, with entrants spread across ten divisions based on their skill level.
Riley XX Daytona Prototype
With a brace of wins to his name (his first ever victories in the series), Danny Engels propelled himself to the pinnacle of the Division One Daytona Prototype standings on the Homestead road course, to maintain his position amongst the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series championship top five. “Wyatt Gooden has given me a hard time on track throughout the entire season especially this week,” shared the German. “I am really happy to finally beat him and to score my first wins in the GRAND-AM Series. I pretty much had two clean and perfect flag- to-flag race wins this week, but it is still a long way to go and I’m really looking forward to the next races.”
Engels (13) and Gooden (1) renewed their rivalry at Homestead, with Engels winning this round.
The aforementioned Gooden, who now leads the Division One Prototype class by 13 points, collected 256 marks from his finish behind Engels, the second highest tally of the week. “We’ve had four different divisional winners in the past four weeks which says a lot about the close competitive racing in iRacing’s Grand Am series,” said the 2010 SCCA VW Jetta TDi Cup Rookie of the Year. “Track position is crucial in these 50 minute ‘sprints’ so I knew it was going to be difficult to get by. Danny drove a faultless race and there were no opportunities for me to pass as our pace was so close again.
This championship is going to come down to the wire for sure!”
Paying the price for Gooden’s promotion up the ranks, Jaroslav Honzik’s short reign on the top perch of the Division One standings comes to an end (at least for now), as the Czech Republic-based sim-racer came home third behind Engels and Gooden in Sunday’s race.
Sustaining his status as the Daytona Prototypes Division Two leader, Henrik Carlsson further extended his lead to over 50 points with the fourth highest tally of the week at the Virtual Homestead. The honour of top driver of the week in the second division fell to Eric Palacio (145 pts), who edged-out John Mallia and Ronnie Akesson by a handful of points.
Although Bogdan M Dumitrescu had a race that even he described as “disastrous,” the Benelux Club online-racer ‘fluked’ his way to the top of the Division Three Homestead scorers, ahead of Iker Estefania and Austin Hartenfels.
“The only reason I scored top points this past week was because while being a lap down, I spun and took out two guys that were coming up behind to lap me,” Dumitrescu sheepishly offered. “It ended their race, but I was able to continue and finish in the top five. It’s not something I really wish to remember.”
Jaroslav Honzik (2) and Hans Fredrik Follestad (14) carve their ways past Andrew Paterson's battle-scarred Mustang.
Sitting atop of the Division Four Prototype standings following a week of racing at the virtual Homestead road course, Kjell-Einar Svendsen has now carved out a 105 point divisional advantage, after securing the highest score of the week. With a pair of wins from three starts, Salvatore Rossi bested Jacob Desmarais, Kyle McCartney and Derrick Thomson to the second highest scoring position of the week. Svendsen’s lead in the division now stands at 105 points over the Desmarais, who has over 50 marks on Rossi, and Erik Bixt in fifth.
Resurrecting his position atop Division Five, Tyler A King out-scored Damien Capelani, to knock the latter off the number one divisional slot. The tables for divisions six through to ten sees new names heading the standings, with Todd Martelle (Div 6), Scott Bennett (Div 7), Don Davis (Div 8), Sylvain Delpech (Div 9) and Joshua Friedrichs becoming ‘top dogs’ of their respective divisional battles.
Ford Mustang FR500s
Despite dropping a huge chunk of points during his virtual visit to South Florida, Samu Snabb continues to lead the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Sports Car Series championship Mustand standings, albeit by a more slender margin over Marcus Jirak. Scoring the highest total of the week, with a pole-to-flag victory, Anthony Roselli bagged 205 points, to pip Brian Strodtbeck and Dennis Grebe as the number one virtual-Ford Mustang racer at Homestead.
Christopher Roberts (19) scored a dominant Mustang class win at Homestead.
With an unchallenged win in his lone race of the week, Christopher Roberts claimed top marks for Week Four of the championship, and has now closed the gap on Division Two leader Mathieu Gagnon. New York-based Roberts now occupies third in the division, just behind Chris Keogh, who is 44 points off the lead.
“Performing while being constantly attacked by the DPs lap after lap on this short course was highly demanding,” Roberts. “There were few to no laps of pure Mustang competition.
Give and take between the Prototypes and Mustangs was essential in scoring a win.”
A second place finish in his opening race of the week saw Matthew Davis secure the highest Mustang points of the week at Homestead in Division Three, to cut the gap to overall divisional leader Dimitar Stefanov to just three points. Also closing the gap on Stefanov, Andrew Bakke made a net gain of 13 points as the series heads to Mid-Ohio for Round Five.
Whilst Tim Bamburger continues to lead Division Four of the GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series Mustang Class ahead of Ricky Hardin, it was Eric Miller collecting the plaudits at Homestead with the highest total of the week with a win and a podium finish under his belt. Less than 100 points from the divisional lead, David ter Stal, and Jasper Groeneweg lie in fourth and fifth respectively and will be looking to narrow the gap at Mid-Ohio.
Robert Lawrie’s top score of 102 points for the week enabled the Englishman to extend his lead in Division Five to 13 marks ahead of Mike Nachtigal. Maintaining their positions at the head of Divisions Six and Seven are John McNamara and Ryan Cowley, who both secured top five finishes, with the latter taking a Ford Mustang victory at Homestead. The remaining three divisions – eight, nine and ten, all see new leaders as the series heads to Mid-Ohio, with Hal Kemrite (Div 8), Matthew Wise (Div 9) and Ricky Dalton (Div 10) all becoming the new names to beat in the FR500S.
Marco van Dongen
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