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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.
Caddell’s Daytona Diary – UPDATED Saturday 1.30.10
January 28th, 2010
Andrew Caddell, co-driver of the #59 iRacing Mustang, is competing this weekend in the Fresh From Florida 200 at Daytona International Speedway. He will be providing updates from the track via inRacingNews.com.Andrew is an avid iRacer and an accomplished racer in the real world as well, having won the Ford Racing Mustang Challenge Series two years running.
1.30.10 Post Race Update
It’s the day after race day and I still feel like we could have done better in the race. We started off very good in 3rd place and were in 4th at the end of the first lap and right on the leaders. Then we had a full course caution and that’s when some problems started to arise. On the restart I got a good start and stayed in 4th but getting on the banking coming out of Turn 6 the car felt sluggish and I got passed by 2 cars by the time we got to the bus stop chicane. I started to know we were down on power and just let car after car go by me. I fell back to 10th and made up some spots while others pitted and pitted while in 8th. We pitted a little early as I thought the motor was blowing up because it sounded real rough. So I told the team to put my co-driver Ken Wilden in the car so he could get his 30 minutes in.
He got out there and quickly realized we had a broken header as the car just could not pull up on anyone and was getting passed way too easily. He came on the radio and said how awesome the car was handling and how if we just had some horsepower we would have a car to contend for a podium spot. We were about 16th with 20 minutes to go and I was preparing myself to finish around there. But it turned into a race with a lot of splash and go’s and that helped us out as we pitted and could go the rest of the way. Ken ended up making it all the way up to 9th at the finish which was a very good finish considering the broken header.
Rehagen Racing gave us a great car that could contend for the podium but just didn’t have the horsepower. I was happy with a 9th place finish considering the circumstances. I know we could of done a lot better so that is a little frustrating. I had a lot of fun though this week with Rehagen and my co-driver Ken Wilden. The car was looking great out on track with the iRacing and Ford Racing Mustang Challenge livery. Would have been very nice to have that car in Victory Lane but I am happy with 9th.
1.29.10 Pre Race Update 12:00 pm EST
Getting ready to head to the pre race drivers meeting in about 30 minutes and I’m feeling pretty good about where we are. We got a good grid spot in 3rd and got the car handling a lot better during qualifying and the warm-up session earlier. I will be starting the race and hopefully will be running up front and hand a car capable of winning off to my co-driver Ken Wilden. Will let you know how the race goes after.
1.28.10 Qualifying Update 6:55 pm EST
Qualifying here at Daytona just concluded and we ended up 3rd in the GS class. Heading out I had a good gap on the cars in front of me and I was feeling like we wouldn’t catch anyone in the first couple of laps which are the best laps on the tires. My first lap ended up being good enough for 2nd place but about a second off. My 2nd flyer was going very well and I hit all the corners nearly perfect. As I was coming through the Tri-Oval a Camaro broke really early into turn on so I went to the outside and he pushed me out wide. I got down to the inside of him heading for the timing line and he ran me into the grass so I had to brake to avoid hitting him. The timing line is after Turn 1 and at the end of the pit exit so this killed my lap. I was timed at a 1:59.5 at the start/finish line but being held up I fell back to a 2:00.2 which was still good enough for 3rd but the time at the line would have been good enough for the pole.
We got the car handling a lot better and now all we have to do is make some minor changes for the race tomorrow and I feel a lot better of our chances to be up on the podium tomorrow. I have a great co-driver in Ken Wilden who is the defending champion in this series so I know he can bring the car home. Looking forward to tomorrow and I will let you know how it goes!
1.28.10 Pre Qualifying 4:35 pm EST
It’s practice day here at Daytona International Speedway. We have had 2 practices today so far and the car is doing pretty good. We have been making changes to the car during both sessions and the car has been getting progressively better. We were 11th in both sessions but I feel like we will be a lot better during qualifying in about an hour. We are making a lot of changes and going to the setup that was on the car last year when it won the pole for this race, no pressure right! I’m looking forward to qualifying and see what the race has in store for Ken Wilden and I. Will write more after qualifying and let you know where we end up.
