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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.
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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.
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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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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 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.
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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.
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Király and Gelink – GRAND-AM Premier Series Champions
by Chris Hall on August 30th, 2011
In what turned out to be a victory parade for the pair, András Király and David Gelink secured the Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series crowns in the respective Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype and Ford Mustang FR500S classes, to each walk away with $1000 in prize money, plus some impressive silverware for their efforts. The 10 week championship open to members of the iRacing motorsports simulation service has seen more than 600 sim racers enter the ultimate mixed-class virtual series in a bid for GRAND-AM glory.
Riley MkXX Daytona Prototype
Although Királywas wearing the biggest grin in the virtual Mid-Ohio paddock for the tenth and final round of the championship, it was Morgan Sowerby claiming the plaudits with the top points total of the weekend. The American secured his 146 points with an outright victory over Ales Nocar, Richard Crozier, David Ward and the champion-elect, who ironically tumbled from his pole position to finish a lap down in fifth position by the end of the 90 minute online race.
Király took 15 wins in 17 tries en route to the Daytona Prototype title.
The second place finish for Nocar was enough to secure the European the second highest total of the weekend, ousting Ronnie Akesson to the position, despite the Scandinavian claiming a pole-to-flag win in his only outing at Mid-Ohio. The podium spot claimed by Crozier in the ‘showcase’ race of the weekend, garnered him 119 points, the fourth highest total of the week and although it was only his fifth round in the Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, it was enough to place the Scotsman inside the top 25 of the final standings.
Another relative newcomer to the championship, Scott McDonough, finished in second behind Akesson, earning the Southern Californian 115 points and extending a recent run of form that has seen him occupy a step on the podium in three of his four most recent races. Of the remaining top ten highest scorers at iRacing’s rendition of the full Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, only Christian Olsson made it onto the podium with a third place finish, whilst David Ward, Derek Roeleveld, Király, and Sergey Soldatov had to make do with peppering the top top-five positions in their respective races.
Although it was a relatively poor result from Király in the final round of the Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, his domination of the standings with 15 wins from 17 starts sees the Daytona Prototype class title head to European shores. Consistent finishes on the podium for Sowerby rewarded the US-based online racer an overall finish of second in the championship and $500 in prize money, whilst Ales Nocar will take some comfort from his third place and $250 prize, after ending the series 32 points behind Sowerby.
Ford Mustang FR500S
Reflecting his stranglehold on the Ford Mustang class of the Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series, Gelink breezed his way to his tenth win of the season in his solitary race of the weekend. Although the Dutchman started from the second row of the grid, Gelink moved into the lead after three-laps and then powered on to the chequered flag – lapping the remaining field of Ford Mustangs in the process. By finishing second behind Gelink in the same race, Ken Leach claimed his sixth podium position of the season and collected 159 points – his highest ever score in the championship.
Gelink's ten wins in the Mustang FR500s, coupled with Király's dominance in the Riley MkXX, gave the Benelux Club a powerful one-two punch.
Following Leach home on the track and in the virtual Mid-Ohio standings, Californian Jack Breuker ended his short-lived Premier GRAND-AM season with a place on the podium, to add to his class win from Round Nine at Watkins Glen – an impressive record for only two appearances in the championship. Alexandre Fornieles was the only other Ford Mustang competitor to take class honours after taking to the track in the FR500S for the first time since the first race of the season at Homestead Miami. The fourth place finish for Norbert Rebelski at the Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course, continued his impress record of a top-five placing in all ten rounds of the championship and added 95 crucial points to his season tally.
With the inaugural Premier GRAND-AM iRacing.com Online Sports Car Series now complete, Gelink walks away with the GRAND-AM Ford Mustang Class trophy, and $1000 in prize as reward for a magnificent season that was clinched by a margin of 310 points. Scoring a final total of 1725 points enables Englishman Scott Michaels to secure the runners-up spot and $500, whilst Norbert Rebelski pockets $250 for his season finish of third position.