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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.

McLaughlin Strikes First Blow in Season 4

November 8th, 2012

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The first round for 2012 Season 4 of the iRacing.com V8 Supercar Championship presented by BigPond took the teams and drivers to Road America for a challenging and fuel-saving 18 laps. With new sponsors and teams coming to play in the series, this is setting up to be an amazing season.  Two of the biggest names in the series changed teams during Week 13 with Season 1 champion Richard Hamstead moving to TTL and Rens Broekman, coming back into the championship and joining XSG Motorsport. Season 3 champion Madison Down continued where he left off by taking pole position for the first main race for S4, while championship runner-up Justin Ruggier would start from second. Hamstead in his new team replete with new sponsor in2simgear found himself sitting in third [...]

Michael Self Blog

by Michael Self on November 8th, 2012

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Self has two NASCAR K&N Pro Series wins to his credit in 2012.  He heads to Phoenix International Raceway this weekend in search of a third.

Michael Self has been competing in motorsports at a very high level since he won the Skip Barber Miller Motorsports Park and the Western Regional Junior Rotax championship in 2006.  The Utah native later named Champ Car Rotax Scholarship winner and won the 2008 Skip Barber Las Vegas Motor Speedway regional championship before turning his attention to NASCAR, where he scored two Late Model wins and five top tens in the K&N Pro Series West in 2010.  This year, as a development driver for Richard Childress Racing, the 22 year old Self captured K&N Pro Series wins at Brainerd and Iowa – thanks in part to lessons learned on iRacing. I’m by no means the best sim-racer in the world; I’ll be the first to admit that.  But I’m fairly [...]

Zanardi completes BMW test

November 8th, 2012

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Zanardi completes BMW test

Alex Zanardi tested a modern DTM BMW M3 for the first time today as part of the 40th anniversary celebration of BMW’s Motorsport division. The former IndyCar champion and double Paralympic gold medallist completed 32 laps at the Nurburgring. BMW ran a special livery for Zanardi, acknowledging the two golds and one silver he won in this summer’s London Paralympics after losing both legs in an IndyCar accident in 2001.

Hill tests Motorbase Ford

November 8th, 2012

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Hill tests Motorbase Ford

Teenagers Jake Hill and Tom Grainger made their British Touring Car test debuts with Motorbase Performance at Brands Hatch this week. Hill, 18, finished seventh in the BTCC-supporting Ginetta G55 Supercup despite missing the opening three rounds

Lotus impressed with Valsecchi

November 8th, 2012

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Lotus impressed with Valsecchi

GP2 champion Davide Valsecchi impressed the Lotus team on his way to topping the final day of Formula 1′s Abu Dhabi young driver test. The Italian took advantage of Lotus giving him a series of “performance runs” to set the fastest time of the day in the E20.

McLaren: Test gains crucial for US GP

November 8th, 2012

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McLaren: Test gains crucial for US GP

McLaren is confident it will have a faster car at next weekend’s United States Grand Prix thanks to progress made during the young driver test in Abu Dhabi. The British outfit is one of the teams that elected to run at Yas Marina this week, alongside championship rival Red Bull.

Test useful for STR 2013 car

November 8th, 2012

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Test useful for STR 2013 car

Toro Rosso believes it has made good progress in preparation for its 2013 car in this week’s test in Abu Dhabi. The Italian squad completed a total of 211 laps over the three days of the Yas Marina test, in which it used Luiz Razia and Johnny Cecotto Jr .

Valsecchi tops final day of test

November 8th, 2012

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Valsecchi tops final day of test

Davide Valsecchi topped the times for Lotus on the final day of Formula 1′s young driver test in Abu Dhabi. The Italian, who won the GP2 title with DAMS this year, posted a time of 1m42.677s that was just 0.002 seconds quicker than Antonio Felix da Costa’s best overall time on Wednesday for Red Bull. McLaren’s Kevin Magnussen was second fastest at the Yas Marina Circuit, 0.150s behind Valsecchi.

Loeb quickest in Spain qualifying

November 8th, 2012

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Loeb quickest in Spain qualifying

Sebastien Loeb set the fastest time in this morning’s Rally of Spain qualifying stage, offering the Frenchman first choice of where he runs on the road for tomorrow’s gravel stages on the Catalan event. Loeb’s time was 0.146 seconds faster than Evgeny Novikov, the Russian star running DMACK tyres throughout the final round of this year’s World Rally Championship. Loeb’s team-mate Mikko Hirvonen was third, with top factory Ford driver Jari-Matti Latvala fourth

Max Biaggi retires from racing

November 8th, 2012

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Max Biaggi retires from racing

Multiple grand prix world champion Max Biaggi has announced his retirement from motorcycle racing following a career that spanned three decades. The 41-year-old Italian won his second World Superbike title this year, having competed in the series since 2007 and raced in grands prix between 1991-2005. Biaggi won four consecutive 250cc world titles between 1994-97 on Aprilia and Honda machinery, taking 29 race victories on the way

NASCAR adds two tests for 2013 cars

November 8th, 2012

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NASCAR adds two tests for 2013 cars

NASCAR has added two more tests for Sprint Cup teams to run their new-for-2013 cars in December and January. The Cup cars will be overhauled for next season, with a new set of rules enabling manufacturers to give their cars a more distinctive look. 2013 car launches • Ford Fusion • Chevrolet SS • Toyota Camry Series organisers have already put together a test programme for the new cars, and they announced this week that two extra sessions will take place at Charlotte Motor Speedway on December 11-12 and January 17-18

Whitmarsh: Perez signing risky

November 8th, 2012

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Whitmarsh: Perez signing risky

McLaren team boss Martin Whitmarsh has admitted that there is an “element of risk” to signing Sergio Perez as Lewis Hamilton’s replacement for 2013. Hamilton decided to end his relationship with the Woking-based team, for which he has spent his entire Formula 1 career, to join rival team Mercedes from next year

Abiteboul named Caterham F1 boss

November 8th, 2012

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Abiteboul named Caterham F1 boss

Cyril Abiteboul has replaced Tony Fernandes as team principal of Caterham’s Formula 1 outfit with immediate effect.

WRC promoter urged to raise game

November 8th, 2012

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WRC promoter urged to raise game

Rally Mexico director Patrick Suberville has admitted the World Rally Championship has to go backwards before it can go forwards under the new promoter. Suberville said the series needs to return to the standards and levels of publicity achieved under former promoter North One Sports in 2010 to use as a base for the future development of the championship. Red Bull Media House and Sportsman Media representatives met with the event organisers in Paris last week and while Suberville was impressed with the firm’s plans, he added there was plenty of work to do.

Di Resta feels ready to lead Force India

November 8th, 2012

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Di Resta feels ready to lead Force India

Paul di Resta says he feels ready to lead Force India next season if the outfit elects to place a less experienced driver alongside him. With current team-mate Nico Hulkenberg moving to Sauber , Force India is currently evaluating a long list of potential replacement candidates. Drivers linked to the seat include Bruno Senna, Sebastien Buemi, Jaime Alguersuari, Kamui Kobayashi, Jules Bianchi, Adrian Sutil, Luiz Razia and Charles Pic.

Ford praises M-Sport’s work in the WRC

November 8th, 2012

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Ford praises M-Sport’s work in the WRC

Ford Racing director Gerard Quinn has praised the work of M-Sport, the British team which took the Blue Oval to two world rally titles, on the eve of Ford’s final World Rally Championship outing. Ford hosted key members of the WRC media at a function in Salou last night, ahead of today’s Barcelona start of the Catalunya Rally

Latvala: Rallye du Var hard for Kubica

November 8th, 2012

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Latvala: Rallye du Var hard for Kubica

Ford driver and Rallye du Var winner Jari-Matti Latvala says Robert Kubica should content himself with a podium on the French event next weekend.

Smith tests Motorbase’s NGTC Focus

November 8th, 2012

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Smith tests Motorbase’s NGTC Focus

British Touring Car race winner Aron Smith tested Motorbase’s NGTC Ford Focus for the first time this week and hopes to race it in 2013. The 22-year-old finished eighth in his first season of BTCC racing this year and scored a victory in Motorbase’s S2000 Focus