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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.
David Ifeguni
Contributing WriterI 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 WriterI 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 WriterI 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 WriterNathan'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 WriterBorn 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 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, 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 WriterBorn 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 WriterKenneth 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 WriterI 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 WriterAfter 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.
Van Gisbergen edges Hamstead and Down at Phillip Island
by Eric Forster on March 1st, 2012
The iRacing.com V8 Supercars Series presented by Big Pond returned home to Australia for Week 4 of 2012 Season 1, with a 38-lap event at the undulating, 2.762 mile Phillip Island circuit. At just a shade under 105 mile distance, the race was long enough that pit strategies would come into play. As usual, the first online races to go official were the V8SC Americas races on Thursday and Friday evenings, 9:45 EST (02:45 GMT Friday and Saturday). Stephen Michaels won the first race, with Curtis Chippeway and Ray Butcher also on the podium (Butcher had to start from the pits due to an uncalibrated wheel, but he sliced through the field). Chippeway won the second race, with Chad Chastain and Michaels joining him in the top three. Jennifer King [...]
Dodge to evaluate NASCAR future
March 1st, 2012
Dodge officials say the they will evaluate the future of their NASCAR programme after Penske announced it will join Ford’s ranks in 2013. The move has led to uncertainty over Dodge’s continued longterm presence in the Sprint Cup series with only Penske and Robby Gordon Motorsports currently running its Chargers. Penske’s move follows switches from Chip Ganassi Racing and more recently Richard Petty Motorsports to Chevrolet and Ford respectively in the past two years.
Points at a Premium
by Chrisopher Leone on March 1st, 2012
Week Three of the first 2012 season of the inRacingNews Challenge saw the three-class series visit Summit Point Raceway for the second time of four on the schedule. Using the Jefferson course, sim racers in Pontiac Solstices, Spec Racer Fords, and now Mazda MX-5 Roadsters would try to best each other and establish their championship hopes as reality. It wasn’t a particularly high scoring week for anybody, as the highest point total was only 167; Roope Turkkila put that up in SRF by winning three of his five starts. In Solstice, Ralf Janiak scored 152 points by winning both of his starts. But in the still wide-open Mazda class, Elmar Eriekotte put up an absolutely dominant week, not only scoring the most points (146, on one win in two starts), [...]
Barrichello says wife fine with ovals
March 1st, 2012
Rubens Barrichello has revealed that his wife has given her blessing to his decision to race on ovals in the IndyCar Series this year.
Kovalainen to return to action on Friday
March 1st, 2012
Heikki Kovalainen will return to Formula 1 testing at Barcelona on Friday. The Finn was due to undertake driving duties on Thursday, but fell ill with food poisoning following a trip to a sponsor event in Finland.
Grosjean: Lotus feels as good as before
March 1st, 2012
Romain Grosjean says his Lotus feels just as good now as it did in the opening test, despite the revisions his outfit was forced to make to its front suspension. The team had to pull out of the first Barcelona test last week after it found a problem with the front suspension of the E20. The issue meant the team had to make changes to the chassis, also adding an extra kilogram of weight to it
Penske to partner with Ford from 2013
March 1st, 2012
Penske Racing will join the roster of Ford teams competing in the Sprint Cup series from 2013, the manufacturer announced Wednesday. In a shock move Penske – one of NASCAR’s top organisations – will leave Dodge behind in favour of a multi-year deal with Ford. Next year’s Daytona 500 will therefore mark the return of Penske Racing’s NASCAR program to the blue oval brand after first running Fords in 1976 and 1977 before returning for a successful second stint between 1994 and 2002
Webber predicts ‘very tight’ battle
March 1st, 2012
Mark Webber is predicting a tight battle for victory in the season opening Australian Grand Prix, with teams still unsure about how well their preparations are going in winter testing. While many view Red Bull Racing and McLaren as favourites for victory in Melbourne, Webber insisted on Thursday that his team was feeling good about its progress – but was taking nothing for granted. “We are all anxious to get to Melbourne eventually and see where all of our work is, but I think the team have done a phenomenal job in terms of preparation and working as hard as we can – and we just have to see if that is going to be enough,” he said, after ending the first day of the Barcelona test fourth fastest.
Rosberg: Delaying car debut was right
March 1st, 2012
Nico Rosberg believes that Mercedes’ strong showing in pre-season Formula 1 testing so far has justified the manufacturer’s decision to give its new W03 car a late debut. The W03 did not appear publicly until last week’s four-day Barcelona test, but was reliable enough to complete 399 laps in the hands of Rosberg and his seven-time world champion team-mate Michael Schumacher. After racking up a further trouble-free 128 laps on the opening day of this week’s final test on Thursday, Rosberg said that he was confident of making yet more progress ahead of the Melbourne season-opener later this month.
Di Resta happy despite low-key start
March 1st, 2012
Paul di Resta is not concerned about Force India’s low-key start to the final pre-season test in Barcelona. The Scot completed 98 laps today, winding out the final session seventh fastest with a best of 1m24.395s, one second behind chart-topper Romain Grosjean. But di Resta has no concerns about not being closer to the top of the timesheets, claiming that the data gathered from today – particularly during this afternoon’s longer runs – will be crucial for the team to push for more performance later in the test
Lola shakes down new LMP2 car
March 1st, 2012
Lola’s new LMP2 car ran for the first time at a shakedown test in France on Thursday. The B12/80, which will compete in the World Endurance Championship this year under Lotus branding, was driven at the Chambery airfield in France
Jarvis to race in GT1 in WRT Audi
March 1st, 2012
Oliver Jarvis will race in the FIA GT1 World Championship this year, racing an Audi R8 LMS for WRT. The former McLaren AUTOSPORT BRDC Award winner, who will also form part of Audi’s factory sportscar line-up with the R18 for selected races this year, forms part of a two-car GT effort
IndyCar welcomes Barrichello move
March 1st, 2012
IndyCar Series boss Randy Bernard and reigning champion Dario Franchitti have welcomed Rubens Barrichello’s move to the championship for this season. KV Racing confirmed on Thursday that Barrichello will join his close friend Tony Kanaan and EJ Viso in a three-car line-up this year.
Strength in Numbers
by Jameson Spies on March 1st, 2012
As the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series went south for the always thrilling trip to Daytona, everyone knew it would be a big week. But what happened shattered expectations across the board. This trip to Daytona was unlike any in the past, as it marked the first time official online races on iRacing’s digital version of the the freshly repaved Daytona International Speedway surface. Laser-scanned to identically match the massive 2.5mi superspeedway, the “new” Daytona afforded iRacing members the thrill of competing on the same proving grounds as their physical world counterparts Matt Kenseth, Dale Earnhardt Jr, Greg Biffle & Co. The iRacing.com software utilizes “Strength of Field” (SoF) to determine how many points are paid-out at the conclusion of the race. The SoF is determined by the average of [...]
Grosjean quickest for Lotus on day one
March 1st, 2012
Romain Grosjean made sure Lotus’ return to testing was a positive one by going fastest on day one of the final pre-season Formula 1 test in Barcelona. The Frenchman waited until there was less than 30 minutes remaining for the day before he set the benchmark time of 1m23.252s, using a set of Pirelli’s soft tyres to eclipse Jenson Button’s fastest time from the morning’s session
Valsecchi ends Jerez test on top
March 1st, 2012
Davide Valsecchi completed a dominant start to GP2 pre-season testing by topping the third and final day at Jerez, having also gone fastest on days one and two. The DAMS driver set his best time, a 1m25.567s, early on in day three, which was interrupted by a delaminating kerb and by several red flags.
Pirelli locks down test car plans
March 1st, 2012
Pirelli has finally sorted its test car plan for this season – but wants to inform teams first about its intentions before confirming the details in public.
Barrichello commits to full season
March 1st, 2012
Rubens Barrichello will race full-time in the IndyCar Series with KV Racing in 2012, it was announced on Thursday.
Pirelli could make softs more aggressive
March 1st, 2012
Pirelli is open to the idea of making its softer tyre more aggressive later this year if the compound does not deliver the high levels of degradation it is hoping for. After its experiences so far of testing the new-for-2012 compounds, Pirelli is happy with the performance differential between its compounds – which it estimates being between 0.4-0.5 seconds – but fears that its soft tyre may not degrade as much as it had hoped for. Although data from testing can sometimes be misleading, and the true race situations in warmer conditions may provide a different picture, Pirelli is ready to look at different options.