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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.

iRacer Profile — Kevin Burris

March 2nd, 2012

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Kevin Burris is not content with the status quo.  2011 Season 4 capped his rise to the top of the NASCAR iRacing.com Late Model Tour, as he took the series title over rival Trenton Moriarity on the strength of 15 wins in 23 starts, this after having placed 26th in points in Season 3.  So does 2012 Season 1 find him defending his hard-won Late Model crown? Not hardly.  After a couple of seasons of near-full body immersion in the NiLMT, the Lillington, NC resident  has driven the Monte Carlo in just three official sessions (all practice) since the holidays.  Period.  Instead, he’s turned his focus to the Class A Chevy Impala, racing in the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series.  He hasn’t had the easiest of times making the jump [...]

Stroud Tops Dover

by Tim Doyle on March 2nd, 2012

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Stroud and Goke lead the field to the green flag.

Week five saw the 2012 Season 1 iRacing.com IZOD IndyCar Series head to Dover International Speedway for the first time ever in series history.  With only 22 drivers showing up, it was also the lowest car count of the season.  With no official online races ever being scored, it was anyone’s guess who would come out on top at the Monster Mile. In qualifying, Shaun Stroud grabbed the pole with a lap time of 19.452s around the fast one mile oval.  On the outside pole was Jonathan Goke, with a  best lap of 19.498s, followed closely by Jeffrey Koolbergen (19.501s).  Randy Crossno slotted into fourth (19.502s) with Doyle Johnson just another one thousandth of a second behind (19.503s).  Very tight! The green flag waved only for action to quickly come [...]

Knaus frustrated by Johnson’s penalty

March 2nd, 2012

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Knaus frustrated by Johnson’s penalty

Jimmie Johnson’s crew chief Chad Knaus claims his team is under more scrutiny than rivals after the #48 Hendrick entry was penalised following the Daytona 500. On Wednesday NASCAR announced Knaus would be suspended for six races and fined US $100,000 after Johnson’s Chevrolet failed the first technical inspection for the Sprint Cup opener. Johnson was docked 25 points and the team’s car chief got the same suspension as Knaus, as officials deemed the C-posts at the upper-rear bodywork of the car did not conform with the regulation.

Schumacher: Degradation needs work

March 2nd, 2012

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Schumacher: Degradation needs work

Michael Schumacher has revealed that tyre degradation is an area where Mercedes must improve, as well as admitting that some of the team’s chief rivals were getting better mileage out of the Pirelli rubber. Schumacher completed 79 laps during Friday’s testing, setting his best time late in the day, on the first flying lap of one of several short runs on Pirelli’s soft compound tyre. However, in the same eight-lap stint as the German set his quickest time, he lost almost four seconds, the first two seconds lost within five laps

Grosjean pleased with long-run pace

March 2nd, 2012

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Grosjean pleased with long-run pace

Romain Grosjean declared himself satisfied with the progress made by the Lotus team after topping the timesheets for the second day in a row at Barcelona on Friday. The Frenchman said that his pace-setting 1m22.614s lap, which was set on a short run on soft Pirellis late on, was a result of “KERS, DRS and enough fuel to do some laps.” But of far more importance to him was the long-run pace of the new E20 following a race simulation on a mixture of soft and hard compounds during the middle of the afternoon.

Sainz tests WRC VW Polo

March 2nd, 2012

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Sainz tests WRC VW Polo

Two-time World Rally champion Carlos Sainz has driven Volkswagen’s Polo R WRC for the first time during the car’s maiden gravel test in Spain this week. VW tester Dieter Depping and Sebastien Ogier drove the car in Norway two weeks ago, but Sainz shared seat time in the Polo with Ogier this week.

Vettel not judging RB8 until updates

March 2nd, 2012

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Vettel not judging RB8 until updates

Sebastian Vettel expects to have a clearer understanding of the RB8 car he will begin the defence his double world crown with when Red Bull fits a major update package to a new chassis for team-mate Mark Webber to drive at Barcelona on Saturday. Amid speculation that several new teams will put the final upgrades on their cars prior to the Australian Grand Prix opener at Melbourne in a fortnight’s time, Vettel insisted that it would still be difficult to accurately define the pecking order before the first race

Donington Park’s Fearnall dies

March 2nd, 2012

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An integral part of Donington Park seemingly forever, Robert Fearnall – who died today (Friday, March 3) – was by no means a one-trick pony. His lifelong passion for motorsport led him to carve a unique niche within it, firstly as a young journalist and historian of rare calibre and later as a management professional.

Fry: Ferrari in reasonable form

March 2nd, 2012

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Fry: Ferrari in reasonable form

Ferrari technical director Pat Fry believes his team is in ‘reasonable’ shape for the start of the season, although admits that it must keep working hard to improve its position. As the Maranello-based team continues to make progress on its radical F2012, Fry says there remain plenty of issues that need to be solved in the final two days of testing.

Hamilton: McLaren in very good shape

March 2nd, 2012

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Hamilton: McLaren in very good shape

Lewis Hamilton says McLaren has nothing to fear from rivals’ upgrades as top teams prepare to introduce their final pre-season developments at Barcelona this weekend. Both McLaren and Red Bull are tipped to bring substantial updates to the last two days of 2012 Formula 1 winter testing, but Hamilton reckons his team will be in good shape whatever the opposition does

Prodrive tests upgraded Mini

March 2nd, 2012

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Prodrive tests upgraded Mini

The latest evolution of the Mini John Cooper Works WRC will be inspected by the FIA for a new homologation next week. Prodrive was busy testing the new parts on the Mini in Southern Spain until early this week.

Loeb: Final leg in Mexico will be tough

March 2nd, 2012

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Loeb: Final leg in Mexico will be tough

Reigning World Rally champion Sebastien Loeb says the strategy for the final day of next week’s Rally Mexico will be vital to success on the Leon-based event. Sunday’s final loop includes four stages with no service – the fourth of which will be the power stage, offering three bonus points to the fastest driver. Having won the event for the last five years, Loeb is keen to continue that run with Citroen next week

Grosjean fastest again at Barcelona

March 2nd, 2012

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Grosjean fastest again at Barcelona

Romain Grosjean has become the first driver to go fastest on two separate days in pre-season Formula 1 testing, topping the times on the second day in Barcelona. Having been third fastest in the morning session, Grosjean was busy after lunch, completing a full 60-lap race simulation in the Lotus, using Pirelli’s soft and hard compounds. He backed that up with a series of fast laps, setting the benchmark time of 1m22.614s with just minutes remaining, on a set of soft tyres

Buchberger Best at Daytona

by Tim Terry on March 2nd, 2012

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The series runner-up in 2011 Season Four in the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (NiCCS) was top of the board when it came to the standings for Week Four in the 2012 Season One at the Daytona International Speedway. Brandon Buchberger took the top point total out of Daytona as 2,400 sim  racers took to the repaved, virtual high banks to look for super speedway glory in Round Four of the online racing series. Buchberger’s win came during a 4012 Strength of Field (SoF) of race on Tuesday in which he led just nine of the 50 laps en route to the victory. Second place belonged to Frank Kimmel II while Jeremy Harrington, Wes Weidman and pole-sitter Stephen Moore completed the top five. Moore led the most laps in the [...]

Q and A: Jarvis on his 2012 programme

March 2nd, 2012

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Q and A: Jarvis on his 2012 programme

Former DTM driver Oliver Jarvis will undertake a mixed programme in the FIA World Endurance Championship and the FIA GT1 World Championship with Audi this year.

Q and A with Loic Duval

March 2nd, 2012

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Q and A with Loic Duval

Loic Duval was announced as an Audi driver for the Le Mans 24 Hours on the confirmation of its sportscar programme this week. He talks to AUTOSPORT about the drive and his plans for the future. Q.

Duval turned down Peugeot offer

March 2nd, 2012

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Duval turned down Peugeot offer

Loic Duval has revealed that he turned down a offer from Peugeot to join Audi for this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours. The 29-year-old Frenchman, who was announced as part of Audi’s 12-driver Le Mans line-up on the launch of its 2012 sportscar programme last night, confirmed that he tested for the factory Peugeot squad at the end of last summer and was in detailed talks with the French manufacturer

Monteiro extends SUNRED deal

March 2nd, 2012

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Monteiro extends SUNRED deal

Tiago Monteiro has extended his deal to race a SUNRED-run SEAT Leon in the 2012 World Touring Car Championship. The Portuguese driver has scored 15 podiums in the WTCC since he joined forces with SUNRED back in 2007. Monteiro’s team will race under the SEAT Tuenti banner.

2012 iRacing.com Grand Prix World Championship Series Preview: Watkins Glen

by Chris Hall on March 2nd, 2012

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The third annual iRacing.com World Championship Grand Prix Series gets underway on Saturday with cash and prizes valued at more than $20,000 on the line, and a live broadast on iRacing.com at 5 PM EST/22:00 GMT.   The 16 race series looks set to be its most competitive so far, with several names carrying viable claims to the 2012 title, including inaugural champion Greger Huttu and reigning champion Hugo Luis. The excitement starts at Watkins Glen, a 3.4 mile, eleven-turn course in New York’s scenic Finger Lake region that has been lovingly recreated with millimetre precision on the iRacing Motorsport Simulation service. Looking to make his mark in the first outing of the 2012 season, Pablo Lopez will be hoping his first Watkins Glen appearance in the iWCGP will yield [...]

FOTA planning series of Fans’ Forums

March 2nd, 2012

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FOTA planning series of Fans’ Forums

FOTA is now planning to hold a series of Fans’ Forums this year following the success of its latest event in Barcelona earlier this week. More than 200 fans attended the event in downtown Barcelona to pose questions to a number of leading Formula 1 figures, including Pedro de la Rosa, Vitaly Petrov, Lotus boss Eric Boullier and Mercedes-Benz motorsport boss Norbert Haug. On the back of similar Fans’ Forums last year in Woking, Montreal, and Milan proving a hit with fans, FOTA is now trying to organise a number of them to coincide with races throughout 2012