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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.
  • David Ifeguni
    Contributing Writer
    I was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1988 and moved to Midland, Michigan when I was two years old. I stayed there until third grade when I moved to Farmington Hills, Michigan and now I currently live in Naperville, IL where I'm attending Metea Valley High School as a 9th grader. In the past, I have participated in soccer and this year I plan on joining swimming or water polo. My family includes my 15 year old sister, a 7 year old sister and my mom and dad. I have been writing since 6th grade and have participated in many writing contests in my school and have received several awards for writing.
    My fascination for motorsports began when I was nine. The first NASCAR race I watched on TV was the 2009 Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Infineon Raceway, won by Kasey Kahne. My favorite NASCAR drivers are Kyle Busch, Dale Earnhardt Jr, and Jimmie Johnson. I have watched all the races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series since 2010. I currently have three wins on iRacing, two of them in the Nationwide car at Daytona and one in the Street stocks at Charlotte. My favorite car and type of track on iRacing is the Nationwide Series (B Class) car and superspeedways.
  • Katier Scott
    Contributing Writer
    I am a veteran sim racer who first started racing way back in 1993 on the SPRTSIMS section of Compuserve with a league who can trace themselves all the way to the present. Within that league I act as Chief Steward and try to bring the unique viewpoint that this experience gives me into my articles.
    I have a BA (Hons) in Journalism and Editorial design and have been writing for seven years and currently cover the Lotus 79 CTC and Radical series alongside my freelance work. Living in the UK, as well as motorsports I love Photography, Arts and Crafts and reading.
  • Dylan Sharman
    Contributing Writer
    I 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.

    I've always had a love for racing as my close family did some racing and we were always out at the local dirt track. I joined iRacing back in 2010 and slowly but surely got the hang of it as this is my first experience with sim racing and am loving it each time I race. I've won two SK Modified titles (almost had three in a row but finished P2 in 2011 S4), an inRacingNews Challenge championship (2012 S1 Mazda) and was also an AustralAsian Intel GT Series Finalist.
  • Nathan Aljoe
    Contributing Writer
    Nathan's passion for motorsport first began in the late 1980s, captivated by the season in which Aryton Senna won his first F1 title with McLaren. Over the years his interest widened to include the British Touring Car Championship, World Rally Championship, NASCAR and various other forms of motorsport. Nathan began sim-racing in the mid 1990s using games developed by Papyrus. He later moved onto SimBim simulations such as GTR, GTR2 and GTR Evolution and has most recently joined the iRacing community.

    When he's not working or sim racing, Nathan enjoys spending time and relaxing with his family. Other hobbies include going to festivals, tinkering with his car and doing up his house.
  • Austin Hartenfels
    Contributing Writer
    Born and raised in Fredericksburg, Virginia, I have always had a serious passion for cars and motorsports. Hoping one day to become an automotive journalist for a magazine, I constantly crave the exciting competition that comes along with racing and sim-racing. Having participated in a mere test session in a Legends car at Old Dominion Speedway, I have not been able to get into any real-life competition . . . yet.

    As a sim racer, my interests date back to "GTR Evolution." My goal is to have fun and win some races. I made it to Oval Pro in 2010, but did not become very successful. I enjoy any mixed road racing competition and love racing the Silverados around almost any track.
  • Jordan Hightower
    Contributing Writer
    Jordan 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, 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."
  • Scott Kelly
    Contributing Writer
    Born and raised in the greater St. Louis, Missouri area, Scott Kelly has had a love for motorsports ever since his father did the right thing by introducing auto racing into his life. No longer able to quench his need for speed by spectating NASCAR races on TV and watching dirt track stars slide around local tracks, Kelly eventually picked-up sim racing in his teens, wheeling cars found in Ratbag Games' "Dirt Track Racing" and "World of Outlaws: Sprint Cars" while also becoming introduced into multiple Papyrus sim-racing series. Joining the iRacing ranks in late 2011, Kelly set his sights on the short track racing he was familiar with, focusing on the sprint car, while also driving the Legends and street stock in multiple iRacing.com leagues.

    Kelly brings not just his enthusiasm for racing to the highest-rated motorsports simulation, but also his B.A. degree in English; he covers the action seen in the iRacing.com Sprint Car Series, while also placing the spotlight on various leagues within the service. Enjoying his start to a career in motorsports journalism, Kelly also doesn't mind visiting victory lane from time-to-time.
  • Kenneth O'Keefe
    Contributing Writer
    Kenneth was born in Smithville, Ontario on December 23, 1994. A major racing fan, he enjoys competitive kart racing in the Rotax Max category at Mosport International Karting. Kenneth also tunes into Formula One and NASCAR races on those Sundays when he is not at the kart track.

    O'Keefe has been sim-racing since 2005, starting on the Live For Speed simulator. After moving to iRacing in 2008, he was able to qualify for the NASCAR iRacing Pro Series (NiPS) in both 2011 and 2012. He will continue to compete and write about the iRacing.com Skip Barber Series throughout the coming year before taking another run at the NiPS in late 2013.
  • Chris Owens
    Contributing Writer
    I was born in Florence, South Carolina in 1989 and have lived here my entire life. I've been around racing since I was a young kid watching with my dad on Sundays. In 2009 and found my local track, Florence Motor Speedway and started working for them as a PR guy the same year. At the end of that season, I started writing for RACE22.com, a Late Model Stock Car news site. In 2010, I picked up my first DSLR camera and started shooting races. To this day, I've experienced some of the best races from behind the camera.

    I've been with the iRacing service since its public beta in 2008, back when the top oval car was the Late Model. I've been in over 500 races on the service with 70+ wins on both oval and road. My favorite car on the service is the Chevrolet Silverado. Darlington Raceway and Concord Speedway are my favorite tracks simply because everybody hates them.
  • George Wood
    Contributing Writer
    After beginning his racing career with go-karts at age seven, George then turned wrenches on street stocks until he could finally turn the wheel. Following the successes of his friends and family, George has since retired from real-world racing, where he is now a science and mathematics faculty member for several local community colleges. When George isn't grading laboratory reports or iRacing, he is performing at bluegrass festivals in the Northeast, making fishing lures, playing golf, and rooting for his beloved Baltimore Orioles.

2012 World Tour of iRacing’s Doubleheader Kick-Off

by David Phillips on February 14th, 2012

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iRacers will have not one but two chances to channel their inner AJ Allmendingers, Justin Wilsons, Billy Johnsons and Jack Roush, Jrs this weekend, with a doubleheaded kick-off to the 2012 World Tour of iRacing. That’s right, not one but two events – the Roar Before the 2.4 and the 2.4 Hours of Daytona – are coming your way Friday and Saturday at Daytona International Speedway. The weekend begins with the 2012 iRacing.com Roar Before the 2.4, a mixed class GT event featuring the VW Jetta TDi, Mazda MX5 Cup and Pontiac Solstice. The green flag drops at 21:00 GMT (4 pm ET) on Friday, February 17 for a sixty minute race on the new Daytona Road Course in daylight conditions. The field will be divided into fields of 43 [...]

Photo finish at Okayama

by Ed Sutcliff and Les Turner on February 14th, 2012

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It all came down to about four inches or 0.003 of a second.  That was the difference between first and second place after 50+ miles of racing action during the Red Sox Racing League’s 5th race of the 2012 Season One schedule.  Twenty-two drivers participated in the “Kōraku-en 30 at Okayama” in Mimasaka, Okayama Japan, but two of them gave fans the best road course finish in RSR history.   The tightly designed, 2.314 mile, eleven corner course at Okayama promised fans a delightful event, but race organizers couldn’t have predicted the incredible finish RSR drivers produced during the event.  The final outcome of the Class A event wasn’t decided until high speed photography confirmed the results posted on the electronic scoreboard.  Chad Peterson earned the win after recovering from [...]

V8 Supercars Series Driver Praises iRacing

February 14th, 2012

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V8 Supercars Series Driver Praises iRacing

The Gamers-Underground.com posted a story in which Australian Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series driver Scott McLaughlin sings the praises of iRacing: Scott McLaughlin has won his first digital V8 Supercars race after Tatts.com Racing’s Mitchell McLeod jumped the start and had to serve a stop-and-go penalty. Scott, a driver in the Australian Fujitsu V8 Supercars Series and New Zealand V8 Touring Car Series, spoke highly of how iRacing is doing positive things for his ability in real racing. During the post-race broadcast interview, Scott commented on behalf of fellow V8 driver Shane van Gisbergen and himself explaining their enjoyment of the iRacing.com V8 Supercars Online Series: “It’s quite hard, but it’s an awesome competitive series and it’s good training for us, honestly. The concentration part, saving your tyres, and even just [...]

Heat races to determine Iowa grid

February 14th, 2012

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Heat races to determine Iowa grid

IndyCar will replace single-car qualifying with heat races to set the grid for its event at Iowa Speedway in June. The series announced today that three 30-lap races would be run after qualifying, with the three groups to be determined by practice times. Cars that are in the top 10 in practice will race to determine the top 10 grid places, while the other two groups will be divided between odd and even-numbered practice positions to determine starting positions 11-13-15 etc and 12-14-16 etc respectively

Hudson Locks-Down Late Model Championships

February 14th, 2012

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Hudson Locks-Down Late Model Championships

Tyler Hudson came from being a lap down in the last 100 laps of Sunday’s Late Model 250 to take the win in the 4th Annual Late Model Championships Presented by GSRacing.net at the New Smyrna Speedway. Hudson held-off teammate Cale Gale on a four lap restart to settle the main event. Trenton Moriarity came from a 26th place starting spot in the event to finish third, followed by Tanner Stoops and Gale Force Suspension B Main winner Landon Huffman. Hudson started on the pole for the 250-lap online race, alongside two-time and defending NASCAR iRacing.com Tour Modified champ Brandon Salvatore. The race experienced mini-rashes of “caution fever,” including the first one on Lap 4 in which pace setter from Open Qualifying Kenneth O’Keefe, Richie Davidowitz and Mike Alexander got [...]

Lotus encouraged by Jerez test form

February 14th, 2012

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Lotus encouraged by Jerez test form

Lotus technical director James Allison says that his team was happy to run the most laps of anybody in the first pre-season Formula 1 test at Jerez last week. The team topped the first day of the test with Kimi Raikkonen, and ended the week with Romain Grosjean setting the quickest time of all the new cars present.

Magnussen gets extended role at McLaren

February 14th, 2012

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Magnussen gets extended role at McLaren

McLaren has announced that Kevin Magnussen will have an extended role this year as a member of the team’s Young Driver Programme. The 19-year-old, son of former grand prix driver Jan, will start working in McLaren’s simulator alongside Gary Paffett and Oliver Turvey, and will also take part in the Young Driver F1 in Abu Dhabi later this year

Barrichello closing in on KV drive

February 14th, 2012

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Barrichello closing in on KV drive

Rubens Barrichello will test for KV Racing again next week as he closes in on an IndyCar seat with the squad. The 39-year-old Brazilian, who lost his Williams F1 seat to Bruno Senna for the coming season after a grand prix career that spanned a record 322 races, is scheduled to spend two days with the team at Sears Point on February 25-26.

Senna: Barcelona to show truer picture

February 14th, 2012

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Senna: Barcelona to show truer picture

Bruno Senna thinks the second F1 test at Barcelona will show a truer picture than Jerez about where his Williams team stands. The majority of the Formula 1 teams ran with their new cars at Jerez last week, in the first of three pre-season tests in 2012.

Sauber: Key exit a logical conclusion

February 14th, 2012

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Sauber: Key exit a logical conclusion

Peter Sauber believes parting ways with technical director James Key was the only logical option the team had. The Hinwil team announced earlier this month that Key was leaving the squad he had joined in the middle of the 2010 season

Firestone extends IndyCar deal

February 14th, 2012

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Firestone extends IndyCar deal

Firestone will continue to be the official tyre supplier of the IndyCar Series until at least the 2014 season. The tyre firm returned to American single-seater racing in 1996 and has been IndyCar’s sole supplier since the 1999 season.

Solberg wants S1T back full-time

February 14th, 2012

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Solberg wants S1T back full-time

Ford driver Petter Solberg has led calls for the permanent re-instatement of Stage 1 Technology as the timing and tracking supplier for the World Rally Championship. Solberg said the British firm’s return to the WRC on last week’s Rally Sweden was a victory for common sense and a big step in turning the series around. Stage 1 Technology had been unable to attend the opening round of the WRC in Monte Carlo due to former promoter North One Sport being placed in administration

MP group says Bahrain should go ahead

February 14th, 2012

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MP group says Bahrain should go ahead

An All-Party Group from the British parliament has expressed its disagreement with calls to cancel the Bahrain Grand Prix. Last week, members of the House of Lords wrote to the FIA to urge the governing body to cancel April’s grand prix amid continued unrest in the kingdom.

Luyendyk becomes race steward

February 14th, 2012

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Luyendyk becomes race steward

Two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Arie Luyendyk has been named as one of three new race stewards for the coming IndyCar season. The 58-year-old Dutchman will form a race control team with former Champ Car competitions chief Gary Barnard and ex-racer Johnny Unser, all reporting to race director Beaux Barfield

Peugeot to run new S2000 in 2013

February 14th, 2012

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Peugeot to run new S2000 in 2013

Peugeot has confirmed that its 208 model will replace the 207 as its S2000 rally car from 2013. A statement released by the French manufacturer confirmed that the new R4T model, which is currently at the design stage and is based on the 208 road car, will be eligible to compete in the Intercontinental Rally Challenge, the Super 2000 World Rally Championship and regional series across the world.

FIA says new WRC TV deal is close

February 14th, 2012

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FIA says new WRC TV deal is close

The FIA is confident that it will nail down international television coverage for the World Rally Championship this week. Following the loss of North One Sport as promoter and the subsequent collapse of talks with Eurosport, there had been grave concerns for footage from this year’s series.