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  • David Phillips
    Editor and Chief
    David 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 Writer
    Chris 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 Writer
    19 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 Writer
    Jason 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 contributor
    Ray 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 Writer
    Patrick 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
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    Tim 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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    North 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!
  • Allen Krier
    Contributing Writer
    Allen 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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World Championship Fields Finalized

by David Phillips on January 26th, 2012

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The fields for iRacing’s twin 2012 World Championships were finalized last week with the completion of the 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series (NiPS) and the 2011 iRacing.com Pro Series Road Racing (iPSRR).

The top 25 finishers in each of the Pro series secured berths in the upcoming NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship (NiSWC) and iRacing.com World Championship Grand Prix Series (iWCGPS).  Beginning in February, they will join the top 25 finishers from last year’s NiSWC and iWCGPS in battling for the top prizes in online racing and the World Championship titles.

Charlotte is one of three night races on the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship calendar.

The 2012 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship kicks-off on February 21 at Daytona International Speedway and will feature a 17 race schedule mirroring that of the 2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup.  Defending champion Ray Alfalla will lead a field of 25 NiSWC veterans against the 25 new challengers from the NiPS, headed by series champion Alex Warren.

The iRacing.com World Championship Grand Prix Series kicks-off at Watkins Glen.

The green flag waves on the 2012 iRacing.com World Championship Grand Prix Series 11 days later at Watkins Glen on Saturday, March 3.   The 16 race calendar features legendary road circuits from North America, Europe, Japan and Australia and will see defending champion Hugo Luis and two dozen more iWCGPS veterans face the 25 top finishers from the iPSRR, including series champion Atze Kerkhof.

All events in both series will be broadcast on www.iRacing.com/live, with NiSWC events beginning every other Tuesday at 9 pm Eastern (Wednesdays at 02:00 GMT) and iWCGPS races starting at 5 pm Eastern (22:00 GMT) on alternate Saturdays.

The World Championship fields and schedules follow:

Car #Driver
01Tyler D Hudson
03Charles Cosper
05Nick Ottinger
06Nolan Scott
08Richard Towler
1Marcus Lindsey
2Ray Alfalla
4Florian Godard
5Michael Conti
6Steve Sheehan
7Chad Coleman
9Thomas Hazard
10Connor Mackenzie
11Brad Davies
15Josh Connors
16Thomas Lewandowski
17Brandon Buchberger
18Daniel Pope II
20Jean Costa
21John Gorlinsky
23Josh Parker
24Pedro Mojica
25Richie Davidowitz
28Jeremy R Allen
29Kevin King
30Robert Hall
32Paul Kusheba
33Bryan Blackford
38Chris Main
39Michael J Johnson
40Joshua Laughton
41Jake Stergios
45John Prather
46Carson McClelland
47Chris Overland
48Brad Wright
51Patrick Fogel
52Patrick Baldwin
54Derek Wood
55Brian Schoenburg
69Matt Whitten
72Josh Berry
77Andrew Fayash III
80Vinnie Sansone
82Alex Warren
84Jon Adams
89Landon Harrison
91Byron Daley
98Justin Thompson
99Cyril Nousbaum
DateTrackLaps
February 21Daytona 100
March 6Phoenix156
March 20Bristol (Night)250
April 3Las Vegas134
April 17Texas167
May 1Richmond (Night)200
May 15Darlington183
May 29Charlotte (Night)200
June 12Pocono80
June 26Kentucky134
July 10Dover200
July 24Indianapolis80
August 7New Hampshire150
August 21Michigan100
September 4Atlanta162
September 18Chicagoland134
October 2Homestead-Miami134

Car #Driver
1Hugo Luis
2Greger Huttu
3Klaus Kivekas
4Jesse Nieminen
5Luke McLean
6Aleksi Elomaa
7Alberto Baraldi
8Ilkka Haapala
9David Williams
10Ben Cornett
12Matthias Egger
11Blake Townend
13Richard Towler
14Dion Vergers
15Ray Alfalla
16Dom Duhan
17Darren Marsh
18Daniel Almeida
19Derek Wood
20Brad Davies
21Marc Payne
22Andrea Baldi
23Petteri Kotovaara
24Joel Guez
25Jake Stergios
42Richard Crozier
26Atze Kerkhof
31Samuel Libeert
32Roland Ehnstrom
35Jaroslav Honzik
41Dave Gelink
43Wes Richards
46Klaus Ellenbrand
47Andrew Slocombe
27Martin Kronke
28Simon Crochart
29Sebastian Schmalenbach
30Jeremy Bouteloup
37Pablo Lopez
38Fulvio Barozzini
39PJ Stergios
49Daniel Lopez
33Emil Spindel
34Alex Arana
36Andre Boettcher
40Norbert Wolf
44Martti Pietil
45Rudy van Buren
48Jason Lovett
50Roy Kolbe

DateTrackLaps
March 3Watkins Glen Classic Boot56
March 17Zandvoort71
March 31Indianapolis (Road)73
April 14Sebring52
April 28Okayama83
May 12Road America47
May 26Infineon (Long)75
June 9VIR58
June 23Mid-Season Break
July 7Silverstone60
July 21Phillip Island69
August 4Mid-Ohio73
August 18Oulton Park (International)71
September 1Spa-Francorhamps44
September 15Zolder77
September 29 Suzuka53
October 13Motegi64

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