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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.
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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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Marcos Edges Coomans for NVIDIA Cup
by Tim Terry on September 1st, 2011
Coomans takes victory at Okayama
Jan Coomans’ run to an NVIDIA Cup championship in 2011 Season 3a came up eight points short but not before a strong run in Week Four at Okayama International Circuit nearly propelled the Benelux sim racer into the top spot in the standings. Coomans topped the weekly standings in Week Four, but after that was factored-in along with one drop week to the overall standings, it was Alvaro Marcos who was crowned champion – his second title in 2011 as he was also the top driver in 2011 Season 1a.
Coomans scored 162 points in a victory in a 2599 sof event on Monday that saw him lead the 25 lap race wire-to-wire and finish ahead of Raul Saraiva, Reuben Bonnici, Phillip Diaz and Jonathan Keer. Coomans was well in control of the field from when the green lights came on, crossing the line over 28 seconds ahead of Saraiva!
Marcos came home in Week Four just eight points behind Coomans with154 points. Like Coomans, Marcos led flag-to-flag in his victory of record for the week, defeating Luis Pereira by over two seconds in the 2475 sof race. Roope Turkkila, Jean-Pascal Keller and Bonnici completed the top five in the 11 car race.
The NVIDIA Cup's 2011 Season 3a finale drew more than 2100 iRacers to Okayama.
V8 Supercar star Shane van Gisbergen made an appearance in the NVIDIA Cup this week and brought his car home with a win at Okayama. Gisbergen came from seventh on the grid and led the final 19 circuits to take the checkered flag over James R Kutia, Pereira, Leon Gerbich and Juha Pyy. The race was rated with 2305 sof and garnered Gisbergen 144 points in his winning effort.
A 2250 sof race on August 26th put Laszlo Mocsan in fourth place overall for the week when the European driver crossed the line first. Leading all the laps in the race, Mocsan finished just a half second in front of Inho Jeon. Keer finished third, defeating Mark Chorley and Paolo Zagheni for the final podium position. Mocsan pocketed 141 points for the victory.
Completing the top five of 2,136 sim racers in Week Four was James Turner. Turner finished second to Tuomas Halonen in a 2519 sof race on Monday. Halonen led every lap in the race and had a five plus second gap on Turner at the completion of 25 laps. Daniel Schon finished third followed by Marc Codd and Keer. Halonen went on to start seven more race, taking home three wins total to Finland and finished the week in thirteenth place overall. Turner, for his second place run was rewarded with 141 points.
Tim Beard2 started the most races this week with 37 while ten wins was the high mark set by Takeshi Manabe in the final week of 2011 Season 3a. A mix of 468 sim racers from around the world won at least one race over the seven day span. Coomans topped the charts in qualifying with a quick time of 1:00.806 around Okayama. Marcelo A Neiva, Schon, Omar Soto3 and Kelvin van der Linde completed the top five of 890 drivers to lay down a qualifying lap.
Coomans not only took top honors in qualifying for the week, he also took the top Time Trial run, besting Simone Rossini, Luke Graham, Turkkila and Thomas Fernandez. When it comes to the season ending standings for the Time Trials, Coomans took away that championship with a perfect 300 points over his best three weeks. Rossini was second, one point behind with Silvio Kreig, Graham and Graham Sinclair also racing their way to a top five finish of 1,950 Time Trial drivers in 2011 Season 3a.
However, it’s Marcos will go down as the racing champion for the NVIDIA Cup in 2011 Season 3a by dint of scoring eight more points than Coomans (461 to 453). Schon, Mustafa Cavus, Graham, Jason Stock, Mocsan, Nicholas Vandal, Renaud Jouanny and Tony Galliani complete the top ten of 5,309 drivers who started at least one race in the NVIDIA Cup season. In fact, the top nine positions overall were represented by members of nine different geographical clubs on the iRacing sanction! Congratulations to those drivers and all drivers who competed on a fantastic season.
Next up for the NVIDIA Cup is the beginning of 2011 Season 3b. Four more grueling weeks will determine the second third champion of the series and you can follow all the action here at inRacingNews!
Until then, keep the hammer down and we’ll see you at the track!