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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.
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.
Tony Rickard
Contributing WriterTony first started sim racing in 1990 with the release of Indy 500 and got hooked from then on, getting to grips with the major releases until Grand Prix Legends (GPL) saw him race online for the first time. From that point on Internet racing was the only option and Tony has competed in a number of online championships from 1998 on. During which time he has discovered the genuine camaraderie that exists in Internet Racing.
Tony is 48, married with three children and resides in the UK. The mix of motorsport and computing take up most of his spare time away from the family and his role as an IT Manager.
Jordan Hightower
Contributing WriterJordan began sim racing in 2005 with the NASCAR Racing 2003 Season sim and then joined the iRacing community in June of 2008. He hails from Fort Smith, Arkansas where he is currently enrolled at the University of Arkansas Fort Smith through 2012, after which he plans to attend the University of Arkansas to earn his MBA. Although he enjoys watching and playing basketball, most of Jordan’s focus is on motorsports, particularly NASCAR: “anything that burns gas and goes fast, I like.”
Patrick Atherton
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.
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.
Austin Atkinson
Contributing WriterA native of Sacramento, CA Austin Atkinson moved to Franklin, Tennessee at a young age and has been around racing ever since. With family members on the track crew at Music City Motorplex, he spent every weekend at the track and has been a regular attendee at Nashville Speedway since it opened in 2001. Although he raced Nasccar 97 on his pc, he dates his serious sim racing efforts back to 2007 and joined iRacing in 2008. He began his online/radio/tv announcing career in 2007.
With OLRtv (sister station WRNtv) and still broadcasts on those outlets along with PSRTV for the occasional iWCSRR event. Atkinson participates in both hosted and official races on iRacing, particularly Late Model and the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series and counts Late Models at Concord or USA Speedways as his favorite combo. Speaking of favorites, his favorite driver is Jeff Gordon.
In addition to sim racing and announcing, he counts his hobbies as baseball and firefighting, and plans to turn his time as a volunteer firefighter into full-time duty.
David Allen
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!
Allen Krier
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.
Jeremy Hughes
Contributing WriterJeremy was born in Kingsport, TN just down the road from Thunder Valley (aka Bristol Motor Speedway). As his father raced at Kingsport Speedway in the 1980s on dirt, Jeremy spent a lot of time at the track as a youngster and has attended every racing event held at Bristol since he was six years old. Jeremy currently spots for a NASCAR Late Model team (driver Nate Monteith, ranked 6th in the nation right now) and races himself in the Pure 4 division at Kingsport Speedway.
Jeremy’s sim racing career dates back to the original Papyrus NASCAR title, Dirt Track Racing, NASCAR Heat, NR2K3, Rfactor, and now iRacing, and includes championships in a variety of leagues in which he is a member. Although he earned a spot in the 2010 NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series, his favorite car on the sim is “definitely” the Late Model. Jeremy won the overall championship in the NASCAR iRacing.com Late Model Series in 2011 Season 1 overall and says he is “looking forward to writing about some of the best races on the sim.
F1 clamps down on driving standards
December 13th, 2010
The FIA is to clamp down on driving standards for the 2011 season, in a move aimed at seeing cleaner driving on track.
Following its World Motor Sport Council meeting last week, the governing body published the full sporting and technical regulations for next year.
In them, the FIA has made several tweaks aimed at cleaner racing in Formula 1 – which will include being stricter in dealing with aggressive defensive driving and those drivers who regularly run off the track to find an advantage.
“Manoeuvres liable to hinder other drivers, such as more than one change of direction to defend a position, deliberate crowding of a car beyond the edge of the track or any other abnormal change of direction, are not permitted,” the new rules state.
The regulations also said that drivers benefiting from leaving the track could face penalties.
“Drivers must use the track at all times. For the avoidance of doubt the white lines defining the track edges are considered to be part of the track but the kerbs are not
“A driver will be judged to have left the track if no part of the car remains in contact with the track.
“Should a car leave the track for any reason the driver may rejoin. However, this may only be done when it is safe to do so and without gaining any advantage.”
The ruling body has also tightened rules for backmarkers, in the hope that they influence races as little as possible.
“As soon as a car is caught by another car which is about to lap it during the race the driver must allow the faster driver past at the first available opportunity,” the new rules read.
“If the driver who has been caught does not allow the faster driver past, waved blue flags will be shown to indicate that he must allow the following driver to overtake. Any driver who is deemed to be ignoring the waved blue flags will be reported to the stewards of the meeting.”
The FIA also made it clear it will not allow overtaking in the pitlane next year.
“Any car(s) driven to the end of the pitlane prior to the start or re-start of a practice session, or any car(s) required to stop at the pit exit during a safety car period, must form up in a line in the fast lane and leave in the order they got there unless another car is unduly delayed.”
The full regulations can be found here.