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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.
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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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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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.
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Paint the Yellow Kicks-off November 28th
by James Howard on November 25th, 2011
Paint the Yellow is set to kick off Season One Monday, November 28th, 2011. With the first signup coming November 5th, registrations have soared to nearly 60 sign-ups in just over two weeks.
Paint the Yellow, a superspeedway racing group, was formed by iRacers Jack Honeycutt and James Howard who have long raced superspeedways through leagues and hosted online racing. Chris Crosby and Gary Horsley are also founders of the group. Jim Eberstat (Skyraider Avaiation), Paul Covington (Omega Construction), and many others have stepped-up to sponsor and offer support as Paint the Yellow was formed. Jim Eberstat, Mark Richardson, Chris Crosby, Troy Eaton, and Robert Ziegler are all well known through the superspeedway racing community and are all supporters of what Paint the Yellow is doing to form a superspeedway racing community.
Paint the Yellow has a unique format to league racing, using the tournament features of iRacing. Each race night, a total of three online races take place: two 12-lap heat races followed by a 53-lap feature race, all within a two hour window. All races have no cautions, making clean racing a priority to make it to the end.
The first heat race is a 12-lap race, which requires a mandatory two tire pit stop anytime between Laps Two and 10 for at least two tires. Qualifying runs just before the race to determine the race lineup, and is the only traditional round of qualifying of the night.
Heat Race 2 is also a 12-lap race, but the field is inverted from the finish of the first heat race. Only lead lap cars are inverted, so it pays to stay in the race regardless of racing woes. This race also requires a mandatory two tire pit stop between Laps Two and 12 for at least two tires.
The Feature Race is the big race of the evening at 53 laps in length. The field is set directly from the finish order of the second heat race. This race also includes a mandatory pit stop between Laps Two and 10 for at least two tires. Strategy becomes a key role in this race as there are 43 laps remaining after Lap 10, which will ensure all cars have to stop one more time for fuel.
Several “fun” races have been run over the weeks and the format definitely leads to excitement. There are four pit stops throughout the night, many different strategies of when to pit, and a great new aero package from iRacing that makes the racing fantastic.
Most every race in the past two weeks have ended two and three wide at the finish. The new areo package from iRacing lets cars get two and three wide and make passes, features that iRacing improved upon with the most recent build at the beginning of November. Hosted racing has spun out of control with trucks at Talladega Superspeedway, another factor making this Paint the Yellow series so popular.
The Paint the Yellow Superspeedway series is a four or five week season format. The first Monday of each month kicks-off a new season. Races run every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday night, with only a driver’s top points night counting toward the championship. This will allow drivers who have a bad race a second, or third chance, and allow drivers who can only make certain races a chance to win the championship.
Paint the Yellow has also put a lot of work into putting together a televised event in mid-December. This will be an invitational event, and will likely include some qualifying rounds and its own series races to round-out the field. More details will come at the beginning of December.
Paint the Yellow is still inviting all serious superspeedway racers to sign-up. The field is expected to fill at 43 on Monday night, leaving many sitting on the sidelines, but also races on Wednesday and Friday to race for points. Admins currently have a plan in place if the members list grows too big, to get everyone into a race to race for points each night. Until such a plan is announced, join the server early!
The first server will launch at 8pm on race night, giving drivers 30 minutes to join the session before qualifying. Those drivers who miss the first race will be able to communicate on Teamspeak or by email to let the admins know they would like a spot in the second heat race. If drivers drop out of the first race and do not continue for the second or feature races, admins can add drivers to the field.
Paint the Yellow expects an awesome first season. If you haven’t registered yet, register by noon Monday to receive the race information for Monday night. Visit http://painttheyellow.com to signup today!