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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.
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.
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.
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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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“B-Dub” Does it at Chicagoland
by Tim Terry on September 8th, 2011
Williamson takes top split, Downs wins week.
Racing, like many other sports can have luck run in streaks. Just ask Brandon Williamson. After two horrendous starts during Week Five of the NASCAR iRacing Class C Series (NiCCS) at Chicagoland, Williamson (known in racing circles as “B-Dub”) got up on the wheel and took the top rated race of the week on Monday.
The Georgia sim racer led just nine of the 90 laps in the 3724 sof race at Chicagoland but finished the seven yellow flag affair ahead of G Allen Lewis and Carson Downs to take the win. Dustin Lengert and NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC) driver Chad Coleman were credited with top five finishes in the 20 truck field. Lewis led the most laps of the race, while Downs’ 208 point total helped propel the California sim racer take the top spot for the week. Downs started four races with his best finish being a second place run to Richard Beasley in a 3497 sof race on September 5th. Downs finished the week with 207 points, just two points ahead of Lewis, who went on to record two wins in a total of six starts.
Week 5 brought the tailgaters of the NiCCS to Chicagoland Speedway.
Former Online 500 champion Bob Bryant took home a big win in Week Five to give the Mid-South Club driver 204 points for the week, good enough for third overall amongst 1,679 other sim racers who journeyed to the virtual Windy City. Bryant’s win also came on Monday in front of a 20 truck, 3268 sof grid of Silverados. Bryant led 42 laps, including the most important one as he topped Ricky Small, Alan Jones, David Krikorian and Aliaksei Smolski at the finish. The race featured five cautions and three lead changes in as exciting race as Chicagoland Speedway witnessed last week.
NiSWC driver Jason Burstein racked-up seven victories over nine starts during Week Five at Chicagoland to be credited with fourth for the week. The biggest of his seven wins came on September Sunday as he bested Dylan Duval in a 3328 sof race. Twelve lead changes set the tone for the competitive event which also featured seven caution periods. Justin Fuller was third at the end with Alex Chapin and Xander Clements not too far behind in the top five. Burstein led 42 laps en route to the win, which brought him 208 points. When all his top finishes were factored in though, it was Burstein leaving the Windy City area track with 203 points.
Rounding-out the top five for the week was another NiSWC driver, Jeremy R Allen. Allen scored one win in four starts and completed the week with 202 points. Ironically, that win did not factor into his point total, as two runner-up finishes (one to Burstein and one to Lewis) decided his total. In total, Allen completed 274 laps in his four starts, leading 149 of those circuits.
Jason Wallen started the most races of the week as the Division Eight driver saw 36 green flags. He also saw the most checkered flags first as Wallen won in nine of those starts, leading 1,003 laps in the making. Ashley Miller was the fastest of 712 qualifiers on the week with a time of 32.105 seconds. Jason Karlavige, Randy Hockaday, Fuller and Lewis also recorded top five times. Miller was also the one to beat in the Time Trial competition, topping Marty Sponsler, Mark Russell, Thomas D Smith and Michael Smith in that discipline of iRacing.
Miller sits atop the standings after five of 12 weeks on the NiCCS. Miller’s point total of 932 is just eleven more than that of Thomas D Smith’s. Michael Guest (21) and Jesse James (26) are within striking distance of the leader while Chris Overland completes the top five overall after Round Five. Christopher Arndt, Dusty Routh, Tommy Lark, Jonathan Mohon, Ben Atcher, Brian Manchester, Cory Van Driessche, Devin Chapman and David Cirilli also lead their respective divisions after a week of racing at Chicagoland.
Up next for the NiCCS is the “Magic Mile” of New Hampshire Motor Speedway. Who will make the big move to take the win and who will lead at the halfway point of the 2011 Season 3 campaign for the NiCCS? Find out here, next week at inRacingNews.
Until then, keep the hammer down and we’ll see you at the track!