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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.
Loeb takes Mexico lead
March 9th, 2012
Sebastien Loeb leads Citroen team-mate Mikko Hirvonen by 4.5 seconds after the last full-length stage of leg one of Rally Mexico. Loeb moved ahead of the Finn on the first stage after lunchtime service today, but has was not able to pull far away on the two stages that followed.
Stage cancelled after spectator issue
March 9th, 2012
The final gravel stage of the opening day of Rally Mexico will be cancelled this afternoon after the drivers voiced concerns over the security of spectators in the Ortega test.
Tough start for Monster duo
March 9th, 2012
Monster World Rally Team drivers Ken Block and Chris Atkinson have suffered a disappointing morning on the opening loop of Rally Mexico stages. Both drivers suffered punctures on the final stage of the loop, but Block’s frustration came from sitting at the side of the stage waiting for Atkinson to pass the sister Fiesta RS WRC – only to discover the Australian had been slowed after he knocked a tyre off the rim.
Ford still bullish about Mexico pace
March 9th, 2012
Despite seeing both his drivers lose the lead of Rally Mexico, Ford team principal Malcolm Wilson remains upbeat about the progress the Fiesta RS WRC on an event where it has traditionally struggled. Petter Solberg led the event after the opening stage in Guanajuato and Jari-Matti Latvala moved ahead this morning
Latvala says rock impossible to miss
March 9th, 2012
Jari-Matti Latvala said there was no way he could have avoided the rock that caused the suspension damage which cost him the Rally Mexico lead. Broken front suspension dropped the Ford driver from first to eighth on the final stage of the morning loop in Mexico today. “It was in a really fast section of the last stage,” Latvala told AUTOSPORT.
Ogier ‘bored’ in Mexico
March 9th, 2012
Volkswagen Motorsport driver Sebastien Ogier has endured what he called his most boring morning in a rally car on the opening loop of Rally Mexico stages. The Frenchman is running third on the road on the Leon-based round of the World Rally Championship and struggling to find any grip on the loose gravel surfaces
Fontana moves into F2 for 2012
March 9th, 2012
Alex Fontana has become the latest driver to sign up for the Formula 2 Championship this year. The 19-year-old Swiss driver won last year’s European F3 Open title and also raced in GP3 at Spa, where he finished sixth, but has chosen to move to F2 after impressing in a test at Barcelona last December
Hirvonen leads after Latvala drama
March 9th, 2012
Citroen’s Mikko Hirvonen and Sebastien Loeb have moved ahead in Rally Mexico after erstwhile leader Jari-Matti Latvala sustained broken suspension on the morning’s final stage. Latvala (Ford) had been edging away from the Citroen duo prior to the stage five incident, which cost him nearly two minutes and saw the Ford fall to eighth place.
Getting a Grip on PIR
by Jameson Spies on March 9th, 2012
The season of huge races continued for the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series, this time it was Week Five at Phoenix International Raceway. With forty-one sim racers topping the 200 point mark, it was another strong week for many NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series hopefuls. The aging PIR surface offers little grip, so the few who were able to find traction would be propelled to victory lane in some of the most hotly-contested races of the season. The top split of the week, once again nearing the all time SoF record, was won by the NiPS bound Jason Karlavige. Kenneth O’Keefe dominated much of the race before having some harsh luck, which surrendered the lead to Karlavige, who was able to seal the deal and the 387 points that came along [...]
Quaife-Hobbs claims debut pole
March 9th, 2012
GP3 graduate Adrian Quaife-Hobbs claimed pole position for his maiden Auto GP race at Monza. The Super Nova racer, who completed minimal pre-event testing, knocked Italian Formula 3 champion Sergio Campana off the top of the timing screens with five minutes of the half-hour session remaining. Quaife-Hobbs later ran wide at the second Lesmo while attempting to defend his advantage, but his earlier effort of 1m36.603 sufficed to secure pole.
Aranha Off to Hot Start in Barber Premier Series
by Chris Cunningham on March 9th, 2012
Lime Rock Park played host to the grand opening of the iRacing.com Skip Barber Premier Series with the 1.53 mile road course serving as the stage for exciting online racing in three different time slots on Wednesday. The warm temperatures accompanying Spring’s early arrival in New England weren’t a major factor for the 194 sim-racers vying for the series’ top prize — a seat in a 3 day Skip Barber Racing School. With two virtually perfect performances, however, a red hot Christian Aranha blazed his way to the top of the points standings. The morning online races (10:00 GMT) were a clear example of sim racers testing the waters. The first split saw Aranha winning in a dominant fashion. The Floridian not only started on the pole, but led all [...]
Hamilton in ‘best mindframe yet’
March 9th, 2012
Lewis Hamilton says he will start the 2012 Formula 1 season feeling better prepared that at any other time in his career, but will keep things in perspective if he does not win in Melbourne. McLaren looks set to be Red Bull’s main title rival based on winter testing, and with his team having enjoyed a much smoother build-up than 12 months ago, Hamilton said he heads for Melbourne in an optimistic mood
Algarve takes WTCC calendar spot
March 9th, 2012
Portugal’s World Touring Car Championship round has been moved from Estoril to the Algarve Autodrome.
Puncture costs Solberg Mexico lead
March 9th, 2012
Petter Solberg’s early lead in Rally Mexico has disappeared already after the Ford driver suffered a puncture on the event’s first full-length stage. Solberg had started the day in front after winning Thursday night’s street stage, but he picked up a puncture just four kilometres in today’s El Cubilete opener, costing him 54 seconds and dropping him to 13th. “We also had a spin as I tried to push through the puncture.
European F3 Championship revived
March 9th, 2012
The European Formula 3 Championship has been revived for the coming season in a bid to increase interest in the single-seater category. AUTOSPORT magazine revealed last week that amid falling grid numbers in the category in recent years, a proposal to merge the British championship with the Euro Series to create a full European championship would be put in front of the FIA World Motorsport Council. While this scenario has been averted, the FIA International F3 Trophy, which began last year in a bid to join up the world’s most prestigious races in the class, has been scrapped.
Vickers in Cup return with Waltrip
March 9th, 2012
Brian Vickers is set to return to NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competition with Michael Waltrip Racing next week at Bristol. The former Red Bull Racing Team driver will share driving duties of the #55 Michael Waltrip Toyota, currently driven by Mark Martin. The veteran has committed to a limited schedule, consisting of 24 points races, and will first step aside next week.
Campana heads second Monza practice
March 9th, 2012
Sergio Campana was quickest in the final Auto GP practice session before Friday afternoon’s first qualifying session of the year at Monza. The 2011 Italian Formula 3 champion recorded a fastest time 1m37.115s for new team MLR71 while morning pace-setter Sergey Sirotkin was second quickest, 0.131s adrift in his Euronova entry.
Sirotkin wants to learn ‘power’ cars
March 9th, 2012
Sergey Sirotkin says that his decision to take the jump from Formula Abarth to Auto GP aged just 16 was down to a desire to learn how to drive a powerful single-seater early in his racing career. The youngest driver in the championship, he caused a stir on Friday morning by topping the opening practice session of the season, the Russian appearing at ease in the 500bhp Lola-Zytek.
FIA adjusts DRS rules for wet events
March 9th, 2012
The FIA World Motor Sport Council has agreed some minor changes to Formula 1 regulations ahead of the season-opener in Melbourne next weekend.