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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.
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.
Chris Cunningham
Contributing WriterChris is 20 years old, and recently moved to Charlotte, NC during his sophomore year in college to feed his need for speed. More than just an auto racing enthusiast, Cunningham has risen through the ranks of BMX Racing, Sailboat Racing, and Cycling. Cunningham recently took up go karting, and qualified as an alternate for the 2011 Red Bull Kart Fight at the PRI expo. Aside from racing, Cunningham has recently picked up the hobby of competitive eating (Ranked #7 Collegiate Eater in the country!), and competes all over the east coast in various contests. Chris also enjoys sim racing, writing, playing the drums, and enjoying college at UNC Charlotte.
Tim Doyle
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.
I was introduced to sim racing in 1989 when a friend turned me onto Indy 500 The Sim by Papyrus. It took me a few years to own my own PC but once I did, all I wanted to do was sim race. I tried to race my friends as much as possible via modem racing back in the 90's before joining TEN in 1998. From there I devoted a lot of time to online racing enjoying every minute of it. I was able to meet a lot of my competitors from all over the world at LAN events and races I went to. Being able to call some real world drivers friends as a result of sim racing is probably the neatest part of this whole deal!
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Contributing WriterDavid lives in Brisbane and is a former Australian National Formula Ford Champion who now owns his own marketing and design company. After racing in Europe, David returned down under to swap a career behind the wheel for a career in the creative department. He now has three children, an ongoing love affair with the good ol’ days of motor racing, and just enough spare time left to enjoy a bit of sim-racing with a few of his old mates.
Ben Rothberg
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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Contributing WriterI was born in Adelaide and we moved-out for Angle Vale for a few years until I was about 7 years old, when we moved to the Barossa Valley where I live now. I'm 19 years old and currently traveling back and forth weekly as I’m studying for a Diploma of Furniture Design and Technology.
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Illini Mighty at Michigan
by Tim Terry on August 18th, 2011
Illinois sim racer Brandon Buchberger flexed his muscle during Week Two as he took the overall win in the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (NiCCS) at Michigan International Speedway. Over 2000 sim racers took to the track, but it was a win on August 14th that put Buchberger over the top for the victory.
Three of the 2000+ iRacers to tackle MIS in Week 2 come to the stripe.
Buchberger bagged the win to take home 236 points. With an sof rating pegged at a 3770, the winner led just seven laps in the highly competitive race which featured a total of 21 lead changes over the 80 lap duration. The race was slowed by six yellow flags and saw Justin Fuller come home in second, ahead of Kwame Adjei, Carl Taylor and Ryan Ameen. Justin Brooks led the race with five laps to go with NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC) driver John Gorlinsky keeping pace with him up in front but the two failed to finish the race. Gorlinsky (37 laps) and Brooks (25 laps) led the most circuits of the event. Fuller scored 223 points for his second place finish in the race, which put the New York racer in second overall for the week at Michigan.
Brooks came home third for the week though based off his performance in the 3538 sof race which went green on Friday. Brooks led 50 laps of the race which saw 18 trucks take the green flag. Taylor was second in the event followed by Stephan Pottier, Brandon P Smith and Derek Copeland. The race featured four yellow flags and saw Brooks win the race from the pole position and net 221 championship points in the bargain.
Landon Cassill Qualifying Challenge II champion Kenny Humpe put his racing skills to the test in Week Two by coming home with three victories in three starts at Michigan. His biggest win came during a 3658 sof race on August 10th as he took a convincing win over Randy Hockaday by leading 52 laps and building an advantage of well over three seconds at the checkered flag. Brandon Six brought his truck home in third while Jared Gordon and Chad Schilling also earned top five finishes. The 19 truck field was slowed only one time by caution and featured five lead changes. When combined with his other big win of the week, a 212 point outing in a 3397 sof race, Humpe left Michigan with 220 points.
Fifth place for the week was Jeremy Harrington. Harrington put two wins in his back pocket out of three starts made for the week. Ironically though, his biggest point haul for the week, a 222 point night came with a second place finish to Hockaday in a 3789 sof race, the highest rated race of the week. Hockaday led 68 laps in the event, besting Harrington at the line by just over a second. Thomas Smith, Schilling and George Buhr rounded out the top five in the race. After his second highest point total was factored in, Harrington completed the week with 218 points.
Hockaday finished his impressive week at Michigan with a dozen wins, more than any other driver in the series. Karl Boyd sat atop the starts list in the Irish Hills though, as the Division Seven driver started 37 races for the week. Humpe topped over 800 other qualifiers by pacing the field with a 41.389 second lap around the two mile oval. Pottier, Hockaday, Brooks and Nick Ottinger completed the top five in qualifying while it was Thomas D Smith who topped the field in the Time Trial contest. Mark Russell, Florian Kirchhofer, Cody Byus and Ricky Small also came home with top five runs in the competition which saw over 300 drivers participate in Round Two.
After Week Two on the NiCCS schedule, it is Humpe out front of the series with 429 points, 11 more than second place Justin Brooks. NiSWC regular Byron Daley is third, eight points behind second while Buchberger and Justin Fuller round out the top five after two rounds. Divisional leaders after Richmond include Justin Brown, Ludovic Louis, Paul Hesla, Cody Evanson, Ben Atcher, Brian Manchester, William Byron Jr, Daniel Coleman and David Cirilli.
From one of the biggest tracks on the schedule to the smallest track – the NiCCS now heads to the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (NiCCS) at Bristol Motor Speedway for some side-by-side, fender-to-fender, paint swapping action on the high banks. Who will come out with the win and who will lead the series after three rounds? Be here next week to find out!
Until then, keep the hammer down and we’ll see you at the track!