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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.

Daley Keeps on Truckin’

by Jordan Hightower on November 19th, 2012

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Andre Castro leads Brandon Thasher and a field of Silverados into Turn One at PIR.

Week Two of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (fixed setup) took 1,562 online racers into Arizona for a visit to the Phoenix International Raceway.  Stacked up against a large number of racers, it proved to be no challenge to Byron Daley (New York) as he took home the most championship points for the week. Week Two’s high Strength of Field was won by Daley, who took the checkered flag 0.492 seconds over second place Derek Cash (Midwest).  William R Harris (Plains) ended the race in the third position 0.795 seconds back.  Ross Tatum (Virginias) and Malik Ray (Carolina) filled the remaining positions in the top five. Daley’s victory enabled him to earn the most championship points for the week with 264.  Second place for the week went to NASCAR [...]

Line-up set for FR3.5 rookie test

November 19th, 2012

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Line-up set for FR3.5 rookie test

Champions from eight junior single seater championships lead the entry for this week’s Formula Renault 3.5 rookie test at Aragon.

Keselowski galvanised team – Penske

November 19th, 2012

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Keselowski galvanised team – Penske

Roger Penske believes Brad Keselowski’s leadership qualities were pivotal in his team’s first NASCAR Sprint Cup title success. Keselowski took a 15th-place finish in the season finale at Homestead to clinch the crown in only his third full year at Cup level.

Perez: I can’t silence critics until 2013

November 19th, 2012

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Perez: I can’t silence critics until 2013

Sergio Perez thinks there is nothing he can do to end the scepticism over whether he is the right man to replace Lewis Hamilton at McLaren until he races for the team. The Mexican has not scored a single point for Sauber since he signed for McLaren, and a spate of on-track incidents have left some questioning the wisdom of the Woking team’s choice. “Even if I won all the last races, there will always be question marks,” he said when asked by AUTOSPORT about the recent criticism.

Get to Know: Daltyn England

by David Ifeguni on November 19th, 2012

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Withi ? wins in ? races, England is well on his way to fulfilling his ambition of racing in the 2013 NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series.

This week’s featured iRacer may not even have time to read this, because he will probably be too busy celebrating his birthday. He certainly has a lot to celebrate. With a pretty successful iRacing career, a promising real world racing career, and on top of that, success on the soccer “pitches” in his Springfield, Illinois home, you could call him a triple threat — or you could call him “that annoying kid.”  Whatever you call him, you can’t deny Daltyn England is a successful iRacer. Daltyn has a lot to be proud about on iRacing and in real racing. On iRacing, he has scored 177 oval wins and nine road wins in a combined total of nearly 1450 races since joining the service in February of 2010. On the real [...]

Johnson proud of Hendrick in defeat

November 19th, 2012

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Johnson proud of Hendrick in defeat

Jimmie Johnson believes that he and his Hendrick Motorsports crew should be ‘proud’ of their performance in the NASCAR Sprint Cup finale at Homestead, despite missing out on a potential championship victory. Johnson, who needed to overturn a 20-point deficit to Brad Keselowski to claim his sixth title, had been poised to win the race following a two-tyre stop that catapulted him into the lead during the second caution. That would have kept the pressure on Keselowski to finish in the 15th place he required in the event of a Johnson triumph

Red Bull will use new-spec alternator

November 19th, 2012

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Red Bull will use new-spec alternator

Renault will switch Red Bull on to its newest specification of alternator for the championship decider in Brazil following Mark Webber’s failure in the United States Grand Prix. Webber suffered Red Bull’s third alternator failure in a race this year at Austin, dropping him out of third position. That problem prompted concerns from the team about that area of the car, which has left engine partner Renault in no doubt that Red Bull must switch to the newer spec for this weekend’s Interlagos showdown

Bourdais rejoins Starworks for Daytona

November 19th, 2012

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Bourdais rejoins Starworks for Daytona

Sebastien Bourdais will rejoin the Starworks team for the 2013 Daytona 24 Hours. The four-time Champ Car champion and Le Mans 24 Hours podium finisher is set to team up with Ryan Dalziel, Alex Popow and Allan McNish in the Starworks Riley-Ford. Bourdais contested three mid-season Grand-Am races with Starworks last year, winning at Indianapolis alongside Dalziel and Enzo Potolicchio.

Pirelli to trial 2013 tyres in Brazil

November 19th, 2012

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Pirelli to trial 2013 tyres in Brazil

Pirelli has confirmed Formula 1 teams will have the opportunity to try out 2013-spec tyres in Friday practice for the Brazilian GP, as revealed by AUTOSPORT last month .

Lorenzo to ponder future after 2014

November 19th, 2012

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Lorenzo to ponder future after 2014

Newly-crowned MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo claims he will re-evaluate his future at the end of the 2014 season. The Spaniard was speaking just days after Casey Stoner competed in MotoGP for the final time at Valencia, having announced in May that he would quit the sport at just 27

Monteiro: Honda has proved potential

November 19th, 2012

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Monteiro: Honda has proved potential

Tiago Monteiro believes the first World Tourng Car Championship podium for JAS’ new Honda programme in Macau last weekend will be a catalyst for future success. Honda entered the last three meetings of the 2012 WTCC season with a single car for Monteiro prior to a fully-fledged assault next year

Rivals refuse to criticise Ferrari tactics

November 19th, 2012

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Rivals refuse to criticise Ferrari tactics

Ferrari’s main rivals say they have little problem with the team’s decision to give Felipe Massa a deliberate gearbox penalty at Austin to help Fernando Alonso’s Formula 1 title challenge. The Maranello-based outfit was concerned about having Alonso start on the dirty side of the grid for the United States Grand Prix, so tactically broke a seal on Massa’s gearbox to give him a five-place grid penalty. That moved Alonso onto the clean side of the track, which team insiders believe was completely the right choice because of the way in which he was able to move up from seventh at the start to fourth by the exit of the first corner.

Daimler buys Aabar’s Mercedes stake

November 19th, 2012

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Daimler buys Aabar’s Mercedes stake

German carmaker Daimler is now in full control of the Mercedes Formula 1 team after buying the stake owned by Aabar Investments. Aabar owned a 40 per cent stake after first buying into the Brawn GP team in 2009 before the company and Daimler became the sole owners in 2011 , having acquired the stakes owned by team management including Ross Brawn and Nick Fry.

Keselowski: Title sweeter with Penske

November 19th, 2012

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Keselowski: Title sweeter with Penske

Brad Keselowski believes delivering Penske Racing’s maiden NASCAR Sprint Cup title makes his championship even more special.

McLaren: Win vital after reliability woes

November 19th, 2012

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McLaren: Win vital after reliability woes

McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh believes that Lewis Hamilton’s victory in the United States Grand Prix was vital for the team after its recent reliability troubles. Hamilton beat world championship leader Sebastian Vettel after a thrilling battle to erase the heartbreak of his race-leading retirement in Abu Dhabi two weeks ago. Reflecting on the emotions of the day, Whitmarsh said it had been important for McLaren to remind itself of how strong it has been at times this year.

Austin surpasses F1′s expectations

November 19th, 2012

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Austin surpasses F1′s expectations

Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone says the United States Grand Prix at Austin proved to be a bigger success than even he anticipated. The event attracted more than 250,000 spectators over the three days, and drew rave reviews from drivers, team bosses and the media about the possibilities it has opened up in America. Ecclestone, who exactly one year ago feared that the race would not take place amid concerns about finances and building progress, was overjoyed with what he had seen.

Kubica eyes more success after win

November 19th, 2012

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Kubica eyes more success after win

Robert Kubica hopes his maiden victory in a World Rally Car in Italy last weekend will lead to even greater success with the Citroen C4. Kubica finished the 11-stage Como event half a minute clear of Felice Re’s similar car, despite having to complete the rally with only rear brakes after a minor accident. The Pole is making a tentative motorsport return in rallying , nearly two years on from suffering horrific injuries in a crash in Italy

Da Costa: Macau win the best so far

November 19th, 2012

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Da Costa: Macau win the best so far

Macau Grand Prix winner Antonio Felix da Costa described his victory in Formula 3′s premier event as the greatest of his career so far. Da Costa stepped back to F3 with his GP3 squad Carlin for the event, and took a relatively straightforward win from pole position after also claiming Saturday’s qualification race.

Huff felt ‘horrific’ after race-one crash

November 19th, 2012

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Huff felt ‘horrific’ after race-one crash

Newly-crowned World Touring Car champion Rob Huff admitted he felt ‘horrific’ in the lead-up to his title-clinching race in Macau after crashing out of the lead of race one.

Gordon wins, Keselowski champion

November 19th, 2012

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Gordon wins, Keselowski champion

Brad Keselowski became the first Penske driver to clinch a NASCAR Sprint Cup title with 15th at Homestead, as Jimmie Johnson retired with a transmission problem and Jeff Gordon took the final win of 2012.