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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.
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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 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.
Wolf Virtually Devours Virtual Homestead-Miami Speedway
by Chris Hall on April 30th, 2010
In a week when the main championship protagonists failed to appear, Corey Wolf claimed top NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series (NiCAS) honours at the Homestead-Miami Speedway. The Division Two driver claimed 156 points from the Miami-based virtual race circuit following a win in his first sim race of the week, to pip Justin Tromley by a single point. Trombley, who claimed three wins from three starts, finished the week four marks ahead of Ryan Ameen, who claimed the second division title this week once the Florida dust had settled.
Week 12 saw the NiCAS put 2010 Season One in the rear view mirrors at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
After twelve weeks of online racing in the NiCAS, Brian Schoenburg officially claimed his NASCAR-sanctioned championship crown, once proceedings had closed at the Homestead oval. Although Schoenburg failed to appear at the South Florida circuit, the Illinois Club driver had mathematically sealed iRacing’s inaugural Impala Class A title three weeks ago. “”It was a great season for the JDR Graphics Chevy,” commented the newly crowned champion this week. “Around the second or third race of the season, we decided we were going to run for the full season. We were fortunate to win as many races and we did… and for that I’m thankful. The main point was to run some races here to get more experience with set-up tuning for the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC). It definitely helped me. Thanks to Jesse Atchison and Justin Roberts for running it with me, and everyone else in the series for the competition. Also of course thanks to JD Laird for the good looking cars.”
Ending the season 251 points behind Schoenburg, Atlantic’s Atchison was another driver choosing to take a sabbatical from the final race of the season; in fact, only one driver in the championship top five made an appearance at Homestead during Week 12. Atchison, who bounced up and down the standings table like a line graph, took the runner-up spot, after a tough three months of racing. “The season was decent,” an upbeat Atchison told inRacingNews. “Other than when I had technical problems while leading the highest SOF Daytona race, I did as well as I was able to just about all season long. I usually ran together with Brian Schoenburg, Justin Roberts, and a couple of others once or twice a week. It just so happened that that turned out to be the championship battle, which Brian ended-up winning with an awesome season. Congrats on the title, Brian.”
Finishing the first NiCAS season of 2010 in third position, Charles Cosper was pleasantly surprised with his ‘podium’ finish in the standings table. Whilst the Texan collected 142 points this week, the haul was not enough to make any net gain on his total, with his Homestead result counting as a drop week. “I started out just racing to learn the car,” confesses Cosper. “I never thought that the season would be as successful as it was because up to that point the only Impala A races I had won were in the Club Run-offs at Michigan. Running with Ultimate Sim Racing Association helped tremendously by getting to run in their league races and feeling what the car does throughout an entire run. The highlight of the season was the Indy win over Nick Morse because it was such a battle. The race had a bunch of cautions then at the end we had a 20 laps run to the chequered where we were sliding all around and just doing whatever we could to win. I was not point racing at all but I am very satisfied where I ended-up because coming into the season I had such little experience.”
A tip of the hat goes to Sandeep Banerjee, who provided an "International" flair to the NiCAS.
Claiming fourth in the Championship by a slender 13 point margin, Sandeep Banerjee has the auspicious claim of being the only non-North American driver in the NiCAS top ten. From his base in India, Banerjee earned five wins from 18 starts this season to secure his top five finish.
“It’s been about the kind of season I thought it’d be,” explained the International Club member. “I knew that if any one of the big hitters like Brian Schoenburg ran it full-time, I’d be fighting for a top five in points at best; and that’s what happened. Great job by Brian to win the championship. It was fun racing the regulars.”
A former leader in the Championship, Justin Roberts ends the season in fifth position, after failing to attend any races at Homestead. Finishing just behind Banerjee, the Virginias Club driver missed his opportunity to sneak into fourth position in Week 12 with his absence, as Roberts needed an achievable 165 points to take the spot.
With the first NASCAR iRacing Class A Series now complete, it’s a time for drivers to reflect on a toughly-fought 12 week series, before heading to Daytona International Speedway for the opening round of the second season. Will Schoenburg return to defend his newly acquired title, or will the lure of NASCAR glory bring fresh challenges to the series?