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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.
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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 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.
New Name, Same Game
by Jason Lofing on February 10th, 2010
Season One of 2010 started off with a bang before any tires hit the pavement at Daytona International Speedway when the Chevy Silverado Championship (CSC) became an official NASCAR online racing series, earning the title of NASCAR iRacing Class C Series. It is very well known that the CSC is one of the most competitive and popular series in the whole iRacing service and, new name or no, 2010 Season One should be no different. The schedule every type of track, from the half-mile Bristol Motor Speedway, the enormous 2.66 mile Talladega Superspeedway, and everywhere in between. However, the first track up on the twelve week schedule was Daytona, where anything can, and often does happen.
As the season got underway, the championship picture was cloudy at best, as several of the top finishers from Season Four, 2009 are also participating in the NASCAR iRacing World Championship (NiWC) including two-time defending CSC champion Josh Berry. These drivers might not run as many races in the CSC, as their main focus will likely be on the NiWC.
Being a restrictor plate track, Daytona levels the playing field, making racing unpredictable and leaving drivers fearing that a big crash could happen at any moment without warning. This danger did not keep drivers from competing though, as 1431 drivers started an official race. As always, Lady Luck had it in for some drivers, including defending champ Berry, who in two races failed to crack the top ten.
Lady Luck favored Joey Brown (11) and Jeff L. Bailey on Thursday. Ryan Bowers (8), Martin Thiemt (2), Jason Adkins (10), Shane Walters (11) and Douglass Bell (5)? Not so much.
Countless others saw iRating and Safety Rating plummet from just being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Even restrictor plate master Jesse Atchison could not avoid some bad luck. After opening the week with three victories and three other top fives, the Atlantic Club driver’s luck simply ran dry with finishes of fourteenth and seventeenth. “The lead is the only place that is safe here,” explained Atchison.
The high strength of field race Saturday night did not disappoint either. The field included nine NiWC -icensed drivers, who helped push the SOF to a whopping 4950. Jordan Hightower took the victory, earning 309 points in the process. Runner-up Connor Mackenzie took home 291 points for his result, and with it, the series points lead as that was his only race of the week. Jason Burstein was third, Joel Nori finished fourth and Dylan Slepian rounded out the top five.
inRacingNews correspondent Jason Lofing (2) leads en route to victory on Sunday.
Jonathan Dickert recorded the most wins during Week One with eight, followed by Eugene Mozgunov with seven. Dickert and Joey Schmidt tied for most top five finishes, with each driver scoring 19.
The overall championship standings show Mackenize out in front early with 291 points. Burstein is in second overall, 17 points behind the leader. Toby Jenkins, Nori, and Slepian round-out the top five after Week One. Defending champion Berry will most likely end-up having Daytona as a drop week, as he failed to even break the top 100 in points scored for the week.
Next up on the schedule is Charlotte Motor Speedway. With the “draft lock” a thing of the past after the new build, racing should be much more interesting on the 1.5 mile ovals. No longer will drivers pack race the majority of the time. Track position and pit strategy will be more important than ever before, as clean air is gold. Week Two will show who was just out for some restrictor plate fun at Daytona, and who is really gunning for Berry’s spot as champion of the CSC.