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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.
  • Patrick Atherton
    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
    Contributing Writer
    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.
  • David Allen
    Contributing Writer
    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.

Fun in the Sun

by Michael Conti on November 18th, 2011

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Karlavige led Whitten and David Cater in the early going on Friday.

The NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series (NiCBS) tackled perpetually sunny Phoenix International Raceway for Week 2 of the online racing series’ 12 week season. PIR featured a lot of great sim racing, probably some of the most intense racing that this series has seen so far this season. Because of the track’s short, flat layout, bumping and banging was the norm for the week which in turn brought-out the trusty iRacing Mustang Pace Car so often during the course of the week that iRacing’s virtual mechanics had to work overtime performing routine maintenance. The highest Strength of Field (SoF) race this past week came on Friday night. The 3344 SoF event was definitely a great one to watch and take part in, as the intensity level was high because the [...]

Scanning What’s in Store for iRacing with Tony Gardner

by Nick Neben on November 18th, 2011

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The Long Beach spline is finished . . . now comes the tricky part!

One of the biggest selling points in iRacing for me is the laser-scanned tracks.  As a sim-racer I may not benefit from knowing each bump and nuance of the real-world track, but knowing what I am driving from my living room is accurate down to the millimeter to what I see drivers racing on TV and in person adds to my experience overall. This unique and authentic feel that you can only get from laser-scanning adds so much to each track within the iRacing service. Tony Gardner, president of iRacing.com, recently provided me with some insights to the process of how the company decided on laser-scanning, the process of signing tracks, what goes into the decision on what tracks are brought into the service for the members and the status [...]

Same Old PIR

by Jameson Spies on November 17th, 2011

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As ever, the NiCAS competitors found grip was at a premium at PIR.

Week 2 of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series (NiCAS) took competitors to the very tricky Phoenix International Raceway. Unlike their physical world counterparts, iRacing.com members had to tackled the slick, old, sun baked pavement and traditional PIR configuration. Getting the 750+ horsepower to find traction on the exit of the greasy corners would be key for anyone hopeful of finding victory lane. The tougher the track the more setup is key to success, especially when there isn’t the slightest amount of grip. Teammates held-down the top five positions in the weekly standings, as they dialed-in their NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series (NiPS) setups. Marcus Lindsey led the charge with 311 points, leading 89 of the 110 laps in his only start on Monday. Daniel Pope II came home 1.171 seconds [...]

O’Keefe to the Win at the Glen

by Tim Terry on November 17th, 2011

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O’Keefe to the Win at the Glen

Kenneth O’Keefe (Smithville, ON) led the final 16 laps en route to victory in the Gale Force Suspension 55 at Watkins Glen International Speedway Monday night in the only road course event on the GSRacing.net Truck Series schedule. O’Keefe, who started in 29th place had his work cut out for him from the drop of the green flag after jumping the start and having to serve a stop and go penalty as a consequence. But O’Keefe charged back to the front, then outran series regular Brandon Williamson (Powder Springs, GA) at the end of the race to defeating the #15 truck by over two seconds. Nick Ottinger (Claremont, NC) finished third in a Gale Force Suspension-sponsored truck, while Dylan Duval (Halifax, NS) and Josh Berry (Mooresville, NC) completed the top [...]

Moriarty Muscles to SoBo Win

by Tim Terry on November 16th, 2011

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Nearly 700 iRacers took the green flag in Late Model action at SoBo.

Monroe, WA’s Trenton Moriarity has established himself as an early favorite in the iRacing.com Late Model Tour (iLMT) division in 2011 Season 4. Moriarity scored the overall victory on Week 2 of the series at the South Boston Speedway, defeating 671 other sim racers in the quest for glory on the popular iRacing short track car. Moriarity tipped the scales his way with a victory on Thursday during a 3009 Strength of Field (sof) race. The 65 lap affair saw Moriarity gap second place Kevin Burris by over three seconds at the finish. Joshua Van Winkle was third in the race, followed by Dylan Roe and Late Model hotshoe Kevin J Myers. David Rattler started on the pole and led the first 24 circuits before relinquishing the lead to Moriarity [...]

Tillmann Impressive In First RSR Start

by Ed Sutcliff and Les Turner on November 16th, 2011

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  It is funny how things turn out.  Just as drivers in the Red Sox Racing League’s 2011 F1 Season Three lineup started to believe Brad Vincent was invincible, along comes a new member to the league who turns conventional wisdom upside down.  At this week’s event, league newcomer Christine Marie Tillmann began her RSR career the same way Vincent did, with an impressive wire-to-wire victory.  Thirteen RSR drivers made the trip to central Florida to participate in the “lesstuna.com Presents F1 at Sebring”, at the technically challenging Sebring International Raceway.  With seventeen corners and a long 3.7 mile layout, the course offers several passing zones.  It also offers some of the most dangerous high speed corners on the schedule.  Designed around hard concrete airport runways, the track requires cars to [...]

Lindsey Rebounds at Homestead

by Jason Lofing on November 16th, 2011

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Lindsey took advantage of a late restart to beat Pope for his second win of the season.

Marcus Lindsey’s troubled 24th place finish last week at Phoenix International Raceway seems like the distant past after he grabbed his second win of the young 2011 NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series (NiPS) season at Homestead-Miami Speedway on Tuesday evening. Unlike his win in the season opener at Texas, Lindsey did not have the car to beat in South Florida.  Instead, he was in the right place at the right time on a late restart and took full advantage of the opportunity to lead Daniel Pope II and Michael Conti across the finish line. The bulk of the online race was led not by Lindsey, but by teammates Pope and Richie Davidowitz. After two quick cautions to open the action, the race went green for nearly the rest of the 133 [...]

Ottinger’s Dominance Continues

by Allen Krier on November 15th, 2011

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The Street Stocks traveled to Thompson International Speedway for Week 2 of 2011 Season 4.

For Week Two of Season 4, the iRacing.com Street Stock Series made its way to Thompson International Speedway. Three time defending champion Nick Ottinger (Carolina), who has not lost a points paying Street Stock race since Week Six of Season 2, continued his dominant ways at Thompson as sim racers look to dethrone the champ. Weekly High Strength of Field The high Strength of Field (SoF) race for Week two took place on Sunday night and had an SoF of 3112, which payed 189 points to win. Ottinger brought home the win by over seven seconds as he brought his win streak up to 18 races. Brandon Chretien (New York) came home in the second position, after starting second, and received 170 points for his efforts. Daniel L Carter (Mid-South), [...]

Lambertson Wins BRR Indycar Series Season 5 Opener

by Vincent Sciuto on November 15th, 2011

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Lambertson Wins BRR Indycar Series Season 5 Opener

41 drivers took part in the 2 hour pre-race practice session leading up to the two lap qualifying session prior to the start of the opening race of Season #5 of the Big Red Racing, Fixed Setup Indycar Series held for the first time under the lights at Iowa Speedway, The BRR Iowa 175. Randy Freeman won the pole for the 175 lap event, posting a fast time of 18.145 seconds in his full fuel-laden vehicle, beating Eric Vanek, and Series Admin, Vincent Sciuto, who both ran an 18.166, by 2/100s of a second. The race grid ultimately filled with 39 drivers, two having opted to not take part in the festivities at the blazing fast short tack. The beginning of the race was pretty sloppy. The first lap saw [...]

Kerkhof The King of Okayama

by Chris Hall on November 14th, 2011

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Kerkhof motored to a second consecutive win and a 100% winning average in the iPSRR.

In a hard-fought 83 laps around the Okayama International Circuit, Atze Kerkhof secured his second outright victory in the iRacing.com Pro Series Road Racing to further extend his lead at the top of the leader-board. With a brace of races now complete, Kerkhof’s is the only name to adorn the the winners column following another formidable driving display in his bid to reach the 2012 iRacing.com NVIDIA Grand Prix Series. Although Kerkhof was pipped to pole position by Martin Kronke, who set a time of 1:06.416 during his solitary qualifying run, Team Redline’s newest member soon redressed the balance by snatching the lead at the opening corner. “The start was not one of my best to be honest,” conceded Kronke. “I released the clutch a little bit too fast and [...]

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Engelhart in at Irwindale

by Tim Terry on November 14th, 2011

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The Tour Mods opened Season 4 with a memorable week at Irwindale.

They say one race could change the complexion of a season long championship. The top split race of Week One in 2011 Season Four on the iRacing.com Tour Modified Series (iTMS) may very well be looked back upon in 12 weeks as that online race. The series visited Toyota Speedway at Irwindale for Round One of the 12 round tour and it was two former series champions showing the way in California. Herb Engelhart was the winner when the drivers took to the track for Thursday’s 3641 Strength of Field (sof) race. Engelhart led 51 of the 100 laps in the event to take the win over teammate and reigning Tour Modified champion Brandon Salvatore. The one lead change happened between the two when Salvatore lost the lead he enjoyed [...]

Flashpoint Infineon

by Patrick Atherton on November 14th, 2011

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Down is already making a run for it on Lap Three

Season 4 week 2 of the iRacing V8 Supercar Series by Bigpond Sport moved to the hills of Sonoma and the undulations of Infineon Raceway For race 1, series leader Madison Down took pole by barely 1/100ths of a second from his shadow Mitch McLeod for Tatts.com Racing. Rens Broekman in turn was another 1/100th back in third. Real world racer Scott McLaughlin was back into the sim world for another go, nabbing fourth. Next was the improving Richard Hamstead, and behind them, making a welcome return to the “main game” was XSG’s Michael McCabe. Filling out the top ten was Cal Whatmore, Michael Clark, Down’s TTR teammate Beau Cubis and Lewis Dodimead. Down lead the early laps as expected, but Broekman did him a huge favour by trumping McLeod [...]

Gooden Plenty III

by Wyatt Gooden on November 13th, 2011

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Wyatt was in familiar territory at the Glen  . . . the winner's circle.

iRacing’s Wyatt Gooden concluded a remarkable season of racing at Watkins Glen in October, taking his third and fourth wins in as many races in the SCCA F1600 Formula F Championship.  Not bad for a guy who had never raced an open wheel car before this summer’s debut at Mid-Ohio . . . even if one of those wins at the Glen was blessed with a little racing luck – Ed. The journey started well before the race weekend began. I flew down to Oklahoma City to meet with Quantum Racing Services’ Wendell and Slade Miller on Sunday (one week before the race). Oddly similar to the last trip before Mid-Ohio, I got to enjoy more delays because of weather . . . this time in Houston of all places! [...]

TimsCorner.ca to Feature Live Updates of iRacing Pro Series Races

November 12th, 2011

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The most coveted championship chase of the iRacing season is coming to TimsCorner.ca! Tim’s Corner officially announced Friday that they will be bringing live updates from 18 NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series and iRacing Road Pro Series races to TimsCorner.ca that are not currently slated for live video streaming on PSRtv. The live updates will include text and photo reports as the events happen on the track as the cars and stars of the Pro Series vie for their shot at their respective Drivers World Championship Series, which will begin in February 2012. Tim Terry, owner of Tim’s Corner and one of the voices of the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship will be one of the producers of the live updates throughout the races and is excited to once again bring [...]

iRacer Profile – Rens Broekman

by David Phillips on November 12th, 2011

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You might say Rens Broekman is something of a Stranger in a Strange Land.  Most Mondays finds him competing in iRacing.com’s V8 Supercar Series.  In and of itself that hardly qualilfies Broekman as a stranger.  But when you consider that he lives in The Netherlands and that virtually everyone he’s competing against in his nFinity eSports Ford Falcon hails from Australia or New Zealand, Broekman definitely qualifies as a bit of an outsider; make that a “fast” outsider.  After nabbing second place in the 2011 Season 2 racing standings, Broekman grabbed the Season 3 Time Trial championship and finished third in the racing standings – the only iRacer from outside the Antipodes to finish in the top 15. Season 4 again finds Broekman once again going head-to-head with V8 rivals [...]

Berry Brings the Heat to Texas

by Tim Terry on November 11th, 2011

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Texas Motor Speedway attracted nearly 1700 starters in Week 1 of the 2011 Season 4 NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series.

NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship driver Josh Berry spent one of the first “off weeks” of that season by lightning up the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series during the first round of the 2011 Season Four campaign. Berry took the big online racing win of the week at Texas Motor Speedway and will go into Week Two as the point leader in the series. In fact, seven of the top eight spots on the week were occupied by “black stripes,” topped by Berry and his 250 point performance on Thursday in a 4007 Strength of Field (sof) race. Berry took the win by leading 33 of 90 laps after working his way up from the sixth position. Daniel Pope II was second, followed by Brad Wright, Heath Hindman and Thomas [...]

Vincent’s 5th Win Down Under

by Ed Sutcliff and Les Turner on November 11th, 2011

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Season Three of the Red Sox Racing Leagues 2011 F1 calendar has officially turned into the coming out party for newcomer Brad Vincent.  Winner of the season’s first race at Silverstone, Vincent has reeled off five wins, a third, and a fifth place finish in eight races.  Incredibly, Brad has become so dominant over the rest of the field in each of his last four starts that even defending league champion Les Turner has accepted the fact that RSR could be crowning a new champion in a few weeks. In what started out as a very competitive season, weeks one through four saw four different drivers winning races, while nine different drivers earned podium finishes.  Vincent put a strangle hold on the points race after that point in the season [...]

Hazard Tops Texas, Takes Points Lead

by Tim Terry on November 11th, 2011

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Hazard Tops Texas, Takes Points Lead

Thomas Hazard (Rochester, MN) took the lead in the Trading Paints 150 for the first and final time on Lap 38 en route to the victory in Round Five of the GSRacing.net Truck Series. Hazard, who claimed his third win of the season, out-dueled Josh Berry (Mooresville, NC) and Kevin King (San Diego, CA) for the victory in the late stages of the 100-lap online race. Most of the field fought against their fuel tanks at the end of the race after a 60 lap green flag run to the finish left many of the front runners saving gas at the end . . . including Hazard, who ran out of fuel on the cool-down lap. Tyler Hudson (Brandon, MS), who along with King was making his first start of [...]

A Tale of Two Stories at Texas

by Michael Conti on November 11th, 2011

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The mid-week release of the new build caught some drivers off guard . . .

Before I begin talking about this great series, I’d like to thank everyone at inRacingNews for giving me this opportunity to put a spotlight on the NASCAR iRacing Class B Series and the drivers that take part in it. I feel that finally, these sim racers  will receive the notoriety and the credit that they deserve. — MC This past week, the NiCBS hit the track at Texas Motor Speedway to kick-off Season 4 of 2011. The bumpy, fast, 1.5 mile speedway seems to always pose a challenge to the drivers in this series, and for that matter any other online racing series that tackles this venue. Because of a delay in the new build, drivers knew the week would be pretty crazy as updates would be coming right smack [...]

A New Dawn at Sebring

by Dennis Grebe on November 11th, 2011

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A new season dawned as the iRacing.com Prototype and GT Challenge competitors raced into the Sebring night.

The venue for the start of the iRacing.com Prototype and GT Challenge turned out to be rather fitting, with a night race at Sebring International Raceway. In the latest update all three cars of the series had their tire model significantly updated, the Corvette C6.R even getting the New Tire Model for the first time as more than a few sim racers found themselves in the dark at the dawn of Season 4. After their nightly adventures at the Florida track, the series will head to Watkins Glen Boot to stretch their legs in broad daylight, before heading to Road America for Week 3 and Laguna Seca for Week 4. LMP2: HPD ARX-01c In a very competitive start to the championship it fell to DWC drivers David Williams (England) and [...]