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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.
Ray Bryden
Technical contributorRay grew up in Nova Scotia, which means he’s a hockey nut, but in Nova Scotia’s two non-winter months he had to find other diversions, which meant watching F1 racing on weekends with his dad and brothers. Without the resources to get started in racing, he gravitated to computer versions of racing – first Atari games like Pole Position, followed by PC racing games like Indianapolis 500: The Simulation. Dozens of others came and went, until Grand Prix Legends came along and he decided sim-racing was his official hobby. Years were spent enjoying this both offline and online until a few years of fatherhood took priority. When free-time reappeared he heard about iRacing and signed up in 2008 and became so involved in the service that he wrote one of the first books on the subject of sim-racing, iRacing Paddock. When not writing for inRacingNews.com, his main occupation is as a research associate with Saint-Gobain working on advanced ceramic materials.
Patrick Atherton
Contributing WriterPatrick Atherton, originally from Adelaide in the state of South Australia, currently resides just outside of Melbourne, Victoria with wife of 17 years and 3 kids. A business manager by profession, but also dabbles with blogging, cartooning and fine art, having been published both as a writer in a short-lived South Australian motorsport yearbook and later as a cartoonist in a niche trade magazine. At the age of 19 he competed in club circuit events in an Austin Healey Sprite, later indulging in sprint karts between 1994 and 2000. Following the move to the State of Victoria he raced Road Race Karts (“Superkarts” as they are known in Australia) in the popular Rotax class, competing at Phillip Island, Oran Park, Mallala, Wakefield Park, Eastern Creek, Calder Park, Sandown and Winton. It was during this time he met former Australian F2 champion and inventor of Australia’s first, and most prolific race simulator rig, Jon Crooke. This culminated in an introduction to Papyrus’ legendary NR2003 simulation, and the subsequent sim racing addiction which brought him to iRacing.
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.
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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!
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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.
World Cup: Checkered Flag Falls on Season 3
by Nick Neben on October 29th, 2009
Season Three of the World Cup of iRacing has reached the finish with an eventful ending. Week Twelve brought out a New England-New York rivalry that will last for many seasons to come, Central Europe has once again been ruled by a single country, and two underdogs took the top spots in their regions. As a result, many new faces have been added to the mix for January’s Regional Annual Club Championship (RACC).
The most talked about Regional Season Club Championship (RSCC) was the Northeastern Region’s battle for the top spot. The two-time defending champions New York were working hard to overcome the lead New England had built-up over the previous two weeks. New York’s top point scorer, Bob Kern, with an amazing 2029 points rewrote the rule books in a creative take on the rules; nothing illegal, just some smart thinking in the best way to gain the most points for his club. New York came up short though, and lost to New England by 944 points. A rivalry has been started here in iRacing between the two clubs, just as in any other sport that puts the New England area up against New York. New England ends the season with the most club points in the world with 48,034, and will earn a trip to the RACC.
Italy took their third straight RSCC in the Central European Region and looks to Season Four as a chance to lock into the World Cup of iRacing without having to worry about the RACC. Italy totaled 40,784 points during Season Three, and beat out DE-AT-CH (Germany, Austria, Switzerland) for the top spot. DE-AT-CH can take some good out of this season after earning their best finish in the region out of the last three seasons. Season Four will be the final chance at making it into the RACC, and a chance to qualify for the World Cup of iRacing.
In the previous two seasons for the World Cup of iRacing small clubs were at a disadvantage when it came to scoring points. After lots of discussion, John Henry & Company found a new way to take away part of that problem and two of the smallest clubs in iRacing took full advantage of it winning their regions and a spot into the RACC. South America took control in the final weeks of the Southeastern Region, pulling away by almost 1000 points over the Mid-South. The battle had been a back and forth fight up until Week Eleven when South America took the lead and held it to the finish.
Another underdog to pull win a RSCC was the Celtic Club out of the Western European Region. They took control early in the season and never looked back, dominating the previous two Regional Champions by over 7000 points. Benelux, who finished fourth in the region the previous two seasons, came in a strong second to the Celtics, showing a big improvement over the last twelve weeks. If Benelux can keep improving into Season Four the region may be looking at four different champions over four seasons.
Two clubs spoiled the plans of a three-peat in their regions as the Great Plains took the top spot in the Central US Region, and the West Club took the championship in the Pacific Region. Both will now have a spot in the RACC. The Great Plains held-off a late charge from the Midwest, as the two time defending champion Texas dropped to third in the region. The West Club had a slightly easier road, taking an early season lead over Australia and two-time defending champion California. The West finished 5,553 points ahead of Australia, who will be looking at Season Four for the final shot at a RACC birth.
Ohio, the Season Two champions, defended their firstMid-Atlantic RSCC with an impressive victory. The closest club finished nearly 6000 points back and the rest fell over ten thousand back by the end of Season Three. Going into Season Four, Ohio will look to keep the RACC a two club race, and will need to hold off the Season Three runner-up, Atlantic Club.
Fifteen clubs have now qualified for January’s Regional Annual Club Championship with one season remaining in the 2009-2010 World Cup of iRacing. Season Four will start November 3, 2009 and finish twelve weeks later on January 25, 2010.
Renato Preti
October 29th, 2009 at 10:55 pmGreat news!!!
Martynas Pranckevicius
October 30th, 2009 at 2:29 pmFast Italians!
Fabrizio Cuttin
November 11th, 2009 at 2:43 amI, as Club Italy admin, could have only dream of a third title, when the season 3 started: it makes me really proud having achieved this goal, but season 4 will surely be an hard one. We will try to win for the 4th time anyway.