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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.

Barrichello hopes for improvements

March 23rd, 2012

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Barrichello hopes for improvements

Rubens Barrichello is hoping to find some overnight improvements after a combination of mechanical and handling problems left him outside the top 20 in both of Friday’s practice sessions for the IndyCar season-opener at St Petersburg. The Brazilian struggled to recover after losing track time to a still-unidentified mechanical problem in the opening session, and said that his lack of familiarity with both the car and the nuances of the circuit made it hard for him to close the gap. “I was going to play catch-up already just by learning the circuit,” Barrichello said.

Power ahead in second practice

March 23rd, 2012

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Power ahead in second practice

Will Power only completed a handful of laps in Friday’s second IndyCar practice session at St Petersburg, but they were enough for the Australian driver to head a Penske one-two. Power set his quickest time of 1m02.0077s on just his third lap and then sat out much of the rest of the session, returning to the circuit for the final minutes of running following a late red flag.

NASCAR defends inspection process

March 23rd, 2012

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NASCAR defends inspection process

NASCAR President Mike Helton has defended the inspection process and the ruling against Jimmie Johnson and his team following the Daytona 500, despite a final appeal overturning most of the penalties imposed. Last Tuesday Hendrick Motorsports claimed an unexpected victory in the final appeal against NASCAR’s ruling on Johnson’s Daytona 500 car, which failed its first inspection ahead of the Sprint Cup season opener at the Florida oval

Go West Young Men

by Chris Cunningham on March 23rd, 2012

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Aranha was flawless (again) at Laguna Seca, but Williams has joined him atop the standings after two weeks of action.

After a brief spring break, the iRacing.com Skip Barber Racing School Premier Series headed over to the west coast for Week 2 action at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. Laguna Seca, known famously for its Corkscrew turn, provided excitement for drivers on the virtual circuit. Some new faces made their presence known during Week 2, as well as the contenders who elected not to drop Week 1 of the series championship. Last week, for Christian Aranha went undefeated in his two starts. His good fortune allowed him to have a repeat performance at Laguna Seca, but a high strength of field race win enabled iRacing.com Grand Prix World Championship Series regular David Williams to join Aranha atop the overall standings. The first race of week two (2:00 GMT) saw three splits [...]

Dixon heads St Petersburg practice

March 23rd, 2012

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Dixon heads St Petersburg practice

Scott Dixon opened the 2012 IndyCar season by setting the fastest time in the first practice session at St Petersburg. The Chip Ganassi Racing team waited until the hour-long session was half over before sending Dixon and team-mate Dario Franchitti out onto the track, and Dixon set his best time of 1m03.0406s with 11 minutes still on the clock.

Wild night at Zandvoort

by Ed Sutcliff and Les Turner on March 23rd, 2012

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Eager to test their skills at one of the world’s most challenging road courses, eighteen members of the Red Sox Racing league traveled to Zandvoort Netherlands during week ten of the 2012 Season One schedule.  Circuit Park Zandvoort played host to the “Nederlandse Automobiel 30 Zandvoort GP”, a 20 lap shootout which produced the 2nd closest road course finish in RSR history. The track’s 2.67 mile, 13 corner layout has been the site of the Dutch Grand Prix between 1952 and 1985.  It includes a long straight along the front stretch which funnels drivers into a banked 180 degree turn appropriately named “Tarzan”.  The U-turn leads to a series of difficult tight, medium, and high-speed corners leading back to the main grandstands.  A loss of focus at any point on [...]

Hunter-Reay concerned by kerbs

March 23rd, 2012

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Hunter-Reay concerned by kerbs

Andretti Autosport driver Ryan Hunter-Reay has expressed concern over changes that have been made to the kerbs at the St Petersburg street circuit ahead of this weekend’s opening round of the 2012 IndyCar season. The cars are yet to run on the Florida track, with the first practice session scheduled to start on Friday afternoon, but Hunter-Reay has suggested that the reprofiled kerbs could be too aggressive for the new Dallara DW12s, meaning that some cornering speeds will be lowered. “In the past here, we’ve been able to run over [the kerbs],” Hunter-Reay said.

DBR1 designer Ted Cutting dies

March 23rd, 2012

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DBR1 designer Ted Cutting dies

Ted Cutting, the man behind Aston Martin’s Le Mans-winning DBR1, has died at the age of 85. After a spell in the Fleet Air Arm, Cutting joined Sydney Allard’s small team in the 1940s. He once described the job as “very basic automobile engineering” and left to join Aston Martin in 1949

Q and A with Arena manager Alan Cole

March 23rd, 2012

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Q and A with Arena manager Alan Cole

Arena Motorsport’s Ford Focus S2000 TCs will again carry 30kg of penalty ballast when it heads into the second World Touring Car Championship round in Valencia. The ballast relates to issues over the floor of the Focus – just one of the inevitable problems the squad faces as it makes the jump between the British and World championships. Arena team manager Alan Cole outlined the problems his team has already faced and what steps it needs to take in order to avoid them in the future.

Arena Fords to keep 30kg ballast

March 23rd, 2012

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Arena Fords to keep 30kg ballast

Arena Motorsport’s World Touring Car Fords will continue to carry 30kg of ballast at the forthcoming round at Valencia. The imposition of the weight follows a difference of interpretation on technical aspects of the team’s all-new Ford Focus S2000 TCs in round one of the championship at Monza earlier this month.

Raikkonen gets five-place grid penalty

March 23rd, 2012

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Raikkonen gets five-place grid penalty

Kimi Raikkonen is to lose five places on the grid for the Malaysian Grand Prix after a gearbox change following the second free practice. Shortly after the session concluded, Lotus wrote on Twitter that an issue with the Finn’s gearbox meant it would be changed before the start of the third and final practice session. The team confirmed the change to AUTOSPORT, meaning Raikkonen looks set to lose five places

Ricciardo says points are possible

March 23rd, 2012

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Ricciardo says points are possible

Daniel Ricciardo is confident that Toro Rosso can be the in the mix for points on Sunday. The Australian said that while he did not expect his fifth place finish in second practice to be representative, it was nevertheless a sign that Toro Rosso has the potential to challenge for top 10 honours.

Loeb says Portugal pace key to year

March 23rd, 2012

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Loeb says Portugal pace key to year

Sebastien Loeb believes that next week’s Rally of Portugal will offer the first meaningful assessment of the season of the pace of his Citroen DS3 WRC against the Ford Fiesta RS WRC. The world champion admitted that he was alarmed at the increase in speed the Ford team showed on the previous gravel outing in Mexico, but said that the lower altitude Faro-based fourth round of the WRC will mean much more. “This is the first rally where we will really be able to gauge the relative strengths of the crews,” said Loeb.

Pirelli downplays Mercedes tyre issues

March 23rd, 2012

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Pirelli downplays Mercedes tyre issues

Pirelli believes too much has been made of tyre degradation issues at Mercedes – and reckons deeper analysis of the Australian race shows its issues are not as bad as some believe. Michael Schumacher and Nico Rosberg had delivered a strong performance in qualifying in Melbourne, but their race turned into a disappointment – as a gearbox problem and tyre issues hampered both men. Although Mercedes itself is targeting a better set-up to improve the tyre degradation situation, Pirelli motorsport director Paul Hembery actually thinks its problems looked worse than they are because of the way the Albert Park race panned out

Latvala: Dust makes qualifying key

March 23rd, 2012

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Latvala: Dust makes qualifying key

Ford World Rally Team driver Jari-Matti Latvala says qualifying will be more important than ever for next week’s Rally of Portugal, with the Finn adding dust is a major cause for concern on the Faro-based event. For the first time since it was re-introduced into the World Rally Championship – after a six-year absence – in 2007, the Rally of Portugal will include night stages.

Bottas happy with practice showing

March 23rd, 2012

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Bottas happy with practice showing

Williams test driver Valtteri Bottas said he was pleased to outpace team-mate Pastor Maldonado on his debut in a grand prix weekend session, even if free practice times are not very important. The reigning GP3 champion stepped into Bruno Senna’s car at Sepang for the first of 15 planned Friday outings on F1 weekends this season.

HRT confident it will qualify for the race

March 23rd, 2012

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HRT confident it will qualify for the race

HRT duo Pedro de la Rosa and Narain Karthikeyan are confident that qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix should not be too much of a problem, even though doubts remain about their potential to make it through to the end of the race.

Button: Low-fuel pace needs improving

March 23rd, 2012

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Button: Low-fuel pace needs improving

Jenson Button says he is ‘not completely happy’ with his low fuel set-up, an issue he feels is of paramount importance given the benefit pole position has on the race’s outcome. As he demonstrated so emphatically in Australia, the Briton says that leading into the first corner can be key to a good race, and that securing pole position is therefore the aim for tomorrow. After losing time to an oil leak in the first practice session, and then focussing more on long runs in the second, Button says he still has a few issues on low fuel runs.

Di Resta doubtful of breaking into Q3

March 23rd, 2012

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Di Resta doubtful of breaking into Q3

Paul di Resta believes Force India will have a tough time reaching Q3 in tomorrow’s qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Scot finished in 13th position in second practice after losing valuable track time because of a problem with his brakes. Di Resta said the car was feeling more competitive than in Australia last weekend, but admitted reaching the top ten in qualifying will be difficult.

Hamilton says balance will be key

March 23rd, 2012

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Hamilton says balance will be key

Lewis Hamilton says finding a set-up balance which suits both qualifying and the race will be key to his fortunes in the Malaysian Grand Prix. After going fastest in both practice sessions, the 2008 world champion said he was already happy with the feel of his car on short runs