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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.

Radical Changes in Store

by Katier Scott on October 31st, 2012

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Nimble and forgiving, the SR8 is well-suited to the decidedly UN-forgiving Oulton Park.

This week marks the start of iRacing’s 2012 Season 4 and hidden amongst the anticipation of new cars and tracks is the fact that a third ’7 day a week’ series is now available for road drivers at the ‘C’ class level. The SR8 Radical is one of those cars which has suffered more than most from changes to the physics; but moving into Season 4 the stalwarts of the series are excited at the possibility of challenging the Star Mazda on a level playing field. The Radical is now widely regarded by those who drive it alongside other road cars as one of the most exciting and fun cars to drive on the iRacing service. It’s a car with plenty of power in the form of a 360bhp, motorbike [...]

The New Build Is Here

by David Phillips on October 31st, 2012

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iRacing is excited to release yet another feature, function and content update to the service as it does every 90 days.   The constant updates are unique in the industry and we hope you enjoy the latest update as our standard Season 4 racing season is set to start. This build was a big one for us as some massive architectural changes were completed including allowing for 64 bit computing and touch screen capabilities as well as the foundation for what we are calling Team Racing.  From a members perspective – for now — you will notice the new spotter functionality and new radio and scanner features as the start of the overall team functionality in this build.  More will continue to roll out in the future. These large architectural changes [...]

Pirelli ‘needs wider compound choice’

October 31st, 2012

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Pirelli ‘needs wider compound choice’

Pirelli needs a bigger choice of dry weather tyre compounds to choose from to avoid low-degradation one-stop races like the Indian Grand Prix. F1′s control tyre supplier has to specify four dry compounds at the start of the season, with two being selected for use in each grand prix weekend.

West suspended for doping

October 31st, 2012

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West suspended for doping

Moto2 podium-sitter Anthony West has been stripped of his seventh-place finish at Le Mans and banned from competition for one month for a doping transgression. West, who has finished runner-up in the last two Moto2 races, gave a sample back at Le Mans in May which was found to contain traces of a prohibited substance.

Rossi tops GP2 test at wet Barcelona

October 31st, 2012

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Rossi tops GP2 test at wet Barcelona

Caterham’s Alexander Rossi turned pacesetter on a wet second day of post-season GP2 testing at Barcelona.

Toro Rosso retains Ricciardo, Vergne

October 31st, 2012

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Toro Rosso retains Ricciardo, Vergne

Scuderia Toro Rosso will retain Jean-Eric Vergne and Daniel Ricciardo for the 2013 Formula 1 season, the Italian squad announced on Wednesday.

Laughton Takes NiPS Season Opener

by Jason Lofing on October 31st, 2012

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Laughton (26) and Downs (97) traded the lead over the last third of the NiPS opener at Daytona before Laughton took the win.

had Laughton used strategy — and a little luck — to win the 2012 NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series season opener at Daytona International Speedway. While most of their rivals had to pit twice under green in order to have enough fuel to go the distance, Laughton and drafting partner Carson Downs only needed one trip to pit road. The two combined to lead most of the last third of the online race, building a lead of more than four seconds over Jeremy Allen and Josh Berry. It looked as if Laughton and Downs were going to decide the race in a photo finish, but the caution flew with five laps remaining just as Laughton passed Downs for the lead, and the race ended under yellow. It was so close that [...]

Mallya: Hulkenberg a star of the future

October 31st, 2012

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Mallya: Hulkenberg a star of the future

Force India team principal Vijay Mallya has labelled the departing Nico Hulkenberg as a ‘star of the future’.

McLaren not dwelling on 2012 defeats

October 31st, 2012

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McLaren not dwelling on 2012 defeats

McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh says his outfit will not allow itself to get frustrated that the world championships have slipped from its grasp this year. Instead, he says the team will head to the final three races of the year determined to arrest Sebastian Vettel’s dominance and deliver at least one more win before the winter break.

Lorenzo to make RoC debut

October 31st, 2012

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Lorenzo to make RoC debut

Newly-crowned MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo will make his Race of Champions debut in this year’s Bangkok event. The Yamaha rider sealed his second title last weekend at Phillipp Island, finishing second to runaway victory Casey Stoner.

Mercedes could ditch double-DRS

October 31st, 2012

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Mercedes could ditch double-DRS

Mercedes has conceded that it may elect not to race with a passive double-DRS next season, thanks to the difficulties it has experienced in getting the system to work so far this year. The Brackley-based team has tried the concept during Friday practice at several recent races , but has already ruled out racing it in the final three grands prix of the year

Kovalainen waiting on Caterham decision

October 31st, 2012

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Kovalainen waiting on Caterham decision

Heikki Kovalainen is waiting on Caterham team principal Tony Fernandes to make a decision on whether he will be retained by the team in 2013. The 2008 Hungarian Grand Prix winner’s original three-year deal with the team expires at the end of the season but the financial implications of potentially failing to finish in the top 10 of the constructors’ championship have led to question marks over Kovalainen’s future. A number of drivers capable of bringing sponsorship to Caterham have held discussions with the team, including test driver Giedo van der Garde and Marussia driver Charles Pic

Sauber confirms Hulkenberg for 2013

October 31st, 2012

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Sauber confirms Hulkenberg for 2013

Sauber has confirmed Nico Hulkenberg will drive for the Swiss squad during the 2013 Formula 1 season.

iRacing.com Offers ½ Off for New Members

by Kevin Bobbitt on October 31st, 2012

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New Tracks and Lotus 49 to Debut in Late October iRacing.com is offering a special 50% discount to all new members of the world’s foremost online motorsports simulation service. The offer, which runs through November 7, enables new members to experience what PC Gamer ranked “the best racing game of all time” for as little as $6.00. All new members will immediately be able to enjoy unlimited open practice and head-to-head racing with competitors around the world using seven of iRacing’s laser-scanned race tracks and digital replicas of 10 different race cars. Although the ½ off offer expires in November, iRacers new and old will have plenty to look forward to.  In the coming weeks, iRacing plans to release its latest “new” car, the classic Lotus 49 raced by Jim [...]

16th Street Racing League Reborn

by Mike Kitchel on October 30th, 2012

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The 16th Street Racing League roars back into action tonight!

Season Kicks-off Tonight at Homestead The much-anticipated return of the popular iRacing 16th Street Racing League will kick off tonight at Homestead-Miami Speedway, with the 130-lap online race broadcast live on GlacierTV. The 16th Street Racing League burst onto the IndyCar sim racing scene in 2009 and featured participation from real-world IndyCar Series stars like Will Power, Justin Wilson and former Panther Racing driver Tomas Scheckter, amongst many others. Click here to watch tonight’s GlacierTV broadcast from Homestead at 9 pm (ET). After a year-long hiatus 16th Street has returned with much fanfare this year, with over 70 drivers applying for the league’s 35 reserved spots. Interest in the league was so great that officials created a “Transfer Race” that will be held each Tuesday at 8 pm, allowing any [...]

Velkov, Alonso Crowned New iRNC Champions

October 30th, 2012

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Season Three of the 2012 inRacingNews Challenge is now in the books, and in the first year of competition without the Spec Racer Ford class, we’ve crowned two new champions. Pontiac Solstice driver Peter Velkov won that class’s title with 1105 points, over 100 points more than closest competitors and longtime iRNC competitors Niccolo Cedrati, Alessando Fior, and Chris Hughson. Velkov started 59 races, all from pole, and won an impressive 52 of them along the way. He also dominated the time trial standings, posting enough fastest laps to tally a perfect score of 800 points in that category. Cedrati, Fior, and Hughson didn’t make it easy for Velkov, however. Cedrati still won 17 of his 19 starts; Fior took the victory in 11 of 15 races; and Hughson added [...]

Filippi sets GP2 test pace at Barcelona

October 30th, 2012

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Filippi sets GP2 test pace at Barcelona

Luca Filippi was fastest in GP2′s first post-season test at Barcelona on Tuesday.

British F3 teams finish pre-Macau test

October 30th, 2012

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British F3 teams finish pre-Macau test

British Formula 3 teams completed their Macau Grand Prix preparations last week when they tested at Silverstone.

Van der Garde ‘making huge strides’

October 30th, 2012

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Van der Garde ‘making huge strides’

Giedo van der Garde believes he is making huge progress in his Friday practice appearances with Caterham, as he continues to try and break into Formula 1. Caterham confirmed on Tuesday that van der Garde would drive in the opening session again in Abu Dhabi this weekend. It will be his fourth consecutive Friday outing in a row, and his fifth of the 2012 season after also getting a chance in China