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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.

Michael Self’s PIR Blog

by Michael Self on November 21st, 2012

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With no worries about iRating, Self led from start to finish to win the Casino Arizona 50 at PIR.

Every race I compete in is different, which is ironic because when I made the switch from road racing to ovals everyone gave me a hard time saying that I was just going to be driving the same circle week after week.  But for those who said this, I can’t tell them how wrong they are.  Oval racing takes a different mindset, a different way of driving, a different way of adapting to new tracks and with that, adapting to different races. Coming in to the Casino Arizona 50 the mindset was a little different than the majority of the K&N West Weekends.  We generally put on a one day show.  Practice, qualify and race on the same day, with the race being around 150 laps.  I arrived at Phoenix [...]

Rebellion to compete in ALMS full-time

November 21st, 2012

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Rebellion to compete in ALMS full-time

The Anglo-Swiss Rebellion LMP1 squad will race full-time in next year’s American Le Mans Series in the wake of its victory in the season-ending Petit Le Mans enduro at Road Atlanta last month. Rebellion Racing, which took the P1 privateers’ title in this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship, will field at least one of its fleet of Lola-Toyota B12/60 coupes in the full ALMS schedule

Rossi: Ducati spell taught me nothing

November 21st, 2012

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Rossi: Ducati spell taught me nothing

Valentino Rossi admits he learnt nothing during his barren two-year spell with Ducati. The seven-time champion moved to the Italian squad in 2011, but after claiming 79 victories across the previous 11 seasons he suffered his first win-less campaign on the Desmosedici

Juncadella joins GP2 test with Rapax

November 21st, 2012

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Juncadella joins GP2 test with Rapax

Formula 3 Euro Series champion Daniel Juncadella will return to GP2 action when he tests again with the Rapax team at Jerez. The Spaniard, who recently drove a Ferrari Formula 1 car at Vallelunga after winning the FIA’s new European F3 crown this year, had already tested for Rapax in the Barcelona test at the end of last month .

Cecce Tops Late Model Tour

by Tim Terry on November 21st, 2012

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Season 4 of the Late Model Tour kicked-off at Lanier National Speedway.

The NASCAR iRacing.com Late Model Tour (NiLMT) has spawned some great champions of this virtual sport and with the drivers and teams of this series visiting a diverse set of tracks in 2012 Season Four, it would be no surprise to see the top drivers from this season move on to the upper echelons of the iRacing simulation. In fact, in the first three weeks of the season, the series would visit three distinct tracks and produce three different winners when the points were handed out at the end of each week. Week One took place at the Lanier National Speedway bullring and when the final laps were completed, it was a Late Model veteran who stood tall amongst his 815 peers who took a green flag at the Georgia [...]

Force India set for UKP50 million boost

November 21st, 2012

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Force India set for UKP50 million boost

Force India has been given a boost ahead of the 2013 season with the news of the approval of a £50 million investment programme. Team boss Vijay Mallya said the squad’s board met in India after the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix and approved the programme, which will mean Force India will invest heavily in new technology to boost the design team for the coming seasons. Force India looks set to finish the 2012 season in seventh position in the constructors’ championship, having scored 99 points ahead of the final race in Brazil

M-Sport Fiesta R5 already in demand

November 21st, 2012

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M-Sport Fiesta R5 already in demand

M-Sport has revealed it is already taking orders for its new Ford Fiesta R5, despite cars not being available for another five months. The Cumbrian firm is nearing completion of the first Fiesta R5, a category which many feel is the future of the World Rally Car.

F1 ‘must capitalise’ on Austin impetus

November 21st, 2012

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F1 ‘must capitalise’ on Austin impetus

Austin circuit boss Bobby Epstein has urged Formula 1 not to let the impetus of a successful United States Grand Prix go to waste if it wants to make a breakthrough in America. With the sport revelling after a sell-out crowd was treated to a thrilling race at the new Austin track , Epstein is convinced that next year’s event can be even better if the sport makes an effort to build on what has been created

Al-Attiyah and Sainz pair up for Dakar

November 21st, 2012

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Al-Attiyah and Sainz pair up for Dakar

2011 Dakar champion Nasser Al-Attiyah will join forces with 2010 winner Carlos Sainz for this year’s event. The pair will compete for the newly-formed Qatar Red Bull Rally Team, in a custom-designed California-built Buggy. Both men’s respective co-pilots are also previous winners: Al-Attiyah’s partner Lucas Cruz triumphed with Sainz in 2010, while the Spaniard’s guide Timo Gottschalk shared victory with Al Attiyah one year later.

McLaren: Hamilton will be missed

November 21st, 2012

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McLaren: Hamilton will be missed

Lewis Hamilton will be sorely missed at McLaren, according to technical director Paddy Lowe.

Korean GP loses over $35 million

November 21st, 2012

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Korean GP loses over $35 million

Korean Grand Prix organisers have announced losses of over $35 million in the third running of the event last month.

Menu would consider testing role

November 21st, 2012

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Menu would consider testing role

WTCC runner-up Alain Menu says he would consider a testing role with a manufacturer, or move away from Europe, if a race seat for next year failed to materialise. The Swiss has not yet confirmed any racing plans for 2013 since Chevrolet’s factory withdrawal from the WTCC was announced in July

DTM submits final 10-race calendar

November 21st, 2012

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DTM submits final 10-race calendar

DTM organisers have submitted a final 10-race calendar for the 2013 German touring car championship to the FIA. Organisers confirmed the series will, as previously planned, make its debut in Russia at the Moscow Raceway in August

MG team boss welcomes rule tweaks

November 21st, 2012

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MG team boss welcomes rule tweaks

MG’s British Touring Car team boss Ian Harrison has welcomed the championship’s rule changes for 2013.

Hamilton chasing ‘perfect farewell’

November 21st, 2012

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Hamilton chasing ‘perfect farewell’

Lewis Hamilton is determined to try to end his spell at McLaren on a high and has set his sights on winning the season finale in Brazil. The British driver will leave the Woking-based team at the end of the year to join rival Mercedes , putting an end to a relationship that started when he was competing in karting. Hamilton won last weekend’s United States Grand Prix at Austin and admits he wants to finish the 2012 season on top once again on what will be an emotional weekend for him

Bowyer ‘never envisaged’ 2012 success

November 21st, 2012

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Bowyer ‘never envisaged’ 2012 success

NASCAR Sprint Cup championship runner-up Clint Bowyer says he never imagined his first year with Michael Waltrip Racing would be so successful. The 33-year-old signed a three-year deal to drive Waltrip’s #15 Toyota Camry late last year, having previous raced for Richard Childress Racing since 2004. Partnered with veteran crew chief Brian Pattie, Bowyer was competitive through most of 2012 and was a title contender up until the penultimate race at Phoenix, where Jeff Gordon deliberately crashed into him and dashed his hopes .

IndyCar series ‘not for sale’

November 21st, 2012

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IndyCar series ‘not for sale’

IndyCar will not be sold because of the strong links it enjoys with the Indy 500 and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. That is the view of parent company Hulman & Co’s new CEO Mark Miles, who insists the series is an integral part of the company’s motorsport plans. IndyCar founder and former CEO Tony George resigned from the board several weeks ago due to a conflict of interest over his involvement with a bid to purchase the series.

Ferrari: Massa form boosts title hopes

November 21st, 2012

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Ferrari: Massa form boosts title hopes

Felipe Massa’s upturn in form is a major boost for Ferrari’s Formula 1 world championship aspirations going into the Brazilian Grand Prix season finale, reckons team boss Stefano Domenicali. Massa’s disappointing performances led to the Brazilian nearly losing his seat during the summer , before Ferrari elected to keep the faith with him for an eighth year .

Vincent and Hesla score wins at Twin Ring Motegi

by Ed Sutcliff and Andy Feldman on November 21st, 2012

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The Red Sox Racing League traveled to Motegi, Japan for the tenth race of the 2012 Season Three schedule.  Host of the “Satoyma 30 Twin Ring Motegi Presented by LessTuna.com”, the 2.98 mile, 14 corner track was a perfect location for drivers and fans alike.   The facility boasts not only the road course used by RSR, but also contains a 1.54 mile oval course.  Built in 1997 by Honda to attract IndyCar racing, the track’s oval shaped course has also hosted CART and NASCAR events.  Danica Patrick became the first woman driver to win an Indy car race when she beat Helio Castroneves at Twin Ring in 2008. Brad Vincent earned his 9th Class A HPD pole of the season with a qualifying lap time of 1:40.050.  RSR newcomer Douglas [...]