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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.

Villeneuve joins Phoenix for Sonoma

June 18th, 2013

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Villeneuve joins Phoenix for Sonoma

Jacques Villeneuve will compete in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at Sonoma Raceway this weekend. The 1997 Formula 1 world champion will step into the #51 Phoenix Racing Chevrolet for NASCAR’s first road course event of the season

Biffle wins Michigan Cup race

June 16th, 2013

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Greg Biffle claimed his first NASCAR Sprint Cup win of the season with victory at Michigan. The Roush Fenway Ford driver took control in the final round of pitstops and held firm to triumph ahead of Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr

Edwards takes pole at Michigan

June 14th, 2013

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Edwards takes pole at Michigan

Carl Edwards has taken pole position for this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan.

iRacing Artists Make Their Mark in NASCAR

by David Phillips on June 14th, 2013

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The paint scheme on Dale Earnhardt Jr's car was designed by JD Laird, one of many artists who have used iRacing as a gateway to work in NASCAR.

Since iRacing.com opened its virtual doors for business in 2008, the online racing service’s meticulously modeled race cars and tracks have proven to be valuable tools for professional race drivers, be they established stars like NASCAR’s Dale Earnhardt, Jr. and Brad Keselowski, emerging talent like Nationwide Series Rookie of the Year Landon Cassill or Conor Daly, who drove for AJ Foyt Racing in this year’s Indianapolis 500. But drivers aren’t the only iRacers using the world’s leading motorsports simulation service as a gateway to the professional arena.  Much like drivers who move-up the racing “ladder” from online to real racing, artists Guy Driggers, JD Laird, Kevin King and others are plying their craft in professional circles after serving their apprenticeships designing paint schemes for virtual cars on the iRacing service. [...]

Leffler killed in sprint car crash

June 13th, 2013

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Leffler killed in sprint car crash

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Jason Leffler has died from injuries sustained in a sprint car crash on Wednesday evening. The 37-year-old was racing in a short track event at Bridgeport Speedway in New Jersey when his car hit a wall at around 20:30 local time. He was airlifted to the Crozer-Chester Medical Centre, where he was pronounced dead just over half an hour later.

Alfalla Finds Victory Lane at Pocono

by Jason Lofing on June 12th, 2013

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Alfalla got the best of Ottinger at Pocono to score his first win of the season.

It took eight races and a lucky break, but Ray Alfalla is finally back in the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship victory lane. Alfalla survived the early carnage and took advantage of a huge mistake by Nick Ottinger with 11 laps to go en route to his win at Pocono Raceway. It looked as if Ottinger had sealed-up the win when he passed Alfalla with 20 laps remaining, but Alfalla tried his best to keep the pressure on. With 11 laps to go, Ottinger pushed it a little too hard and slid into the wall on the exit of Turn Three, allowing Alfalla to retake the lead. Ottinger quickly tried to close back in, but a yellow flag would trap him in second position and set up a three lap [...]

New Alien on the Block

by David Phillips on June 10th, 2013

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Won't get fooled again . . .  Brown takes the high road to the NiSWC win at Charlotte.

iRacers beware:  there’s about to be a new alien on the block.  No, he’s not from Scandinavia.  He’s from . . . Texas; Corpus Cristi to be precise.  But he plans on moving to Roswell, New Mexico in the future.  And unless you’ve been living in a cave for all or some of the past 66 years, you’ll know that since a UFO crashed near Roswell in 1947, the desert town has been long been ground zero for speculation about extra-terrestrials. Some would say Joey Brown has already proven his alien status in sim-racing circles, witness the fact that he finished ninth in the 2012 NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series or that he scored his first NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship victory at Charlotte in just his seventh start at the [...]

Lukaszka is Dover’s “Top Monster”

by Tom Moustakas on June 10th, 2013

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Close-quarters racing + Dover's challenging racing surface often equals sheet-metal damage.

Week Five brought the NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series (fixed setup)  to the first state in the Union and Dover International Speedway.  With its unique combination of concrete surface and steep banking, it’s no wonder the track has earned the nickname “The Monster Mile.” Qualifying: For the second week in a row, Pro-licensed drivers topped the qualifying charts in the NiCAS (fixed setup). NiSWC competitor Brian Schoenburg (California) wheeled his Gen6 car to a 22.796 second lap around the concrete mile. New Pro driver Brian Day (Mid-South) was second best with a 22.808s lap, and NiSWC driver Danny Hansen was third at 22.809s. Kevin King (California) was fourth best at 22.820s and Matt Bussa (Illinois) was fifth at 22.833s. High SOF Race: The top SOF race of the week happened [...]

Johnson dominant at Pocono

June 9th, 2013

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Johnson dominant at Pocono

Jimmie Johnson was in imperious form as he utterly dominated proceedings on his way to NASCAR Sprint Cup victory at Pocono. It was only Johnson’s third win at the ‘tricky triangle’ but he will struggle to produce a more comprehensive performance.

Allmendinger to replace Labonte

June 8th, 2013

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Allmendinger to replace Labonte

AJ Allmendinger will replace Bobby Labonte in the JTG Daugherty NASCAR Sprint Cup team for at least five races, starting at Michigan next weekend.

In the Driver’s Seat – At Last!

by Joe Pisciotta Jr. on June 7th, 2013

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NiSWC champion Ray Alfalla gets acclimated with the help of 15-year old PWC driver Ernie Francis Jr.

Remember as a kid the first time you sat in your parents’ car?  You grabbed the steering wheel tight, raised your arm out the window and imagined taking the checkered flag at Daytona or Indy.  Did you ever think that even if you were talented enough to pursue a career that you would need financial backing from your family or a sponsor? Enter Ray Alfalla, a native of Matanzas, Cuba who came to the United States in 1995 when he was six years old. Quickly, he developed the aspiration to follow in the footsteps of his boyhood idol: NASCAR’s Rusty Wallace.  Since Ray lived in Miami, he would frequent Homestead-Miami Speedway as a spectator to watch NASCAR races, but obviously Ray had dreams of his own – being behind the [...]

Johnson handed pole as rain hits

June 7th, 2013

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Jimmie Johnson will start Sunday’s Pocono NASCAR Sprint Cup race from pole position after qualifying was rained off on Friday afternoon.

Montoya sure oval victory will come

June 5th, 2013

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Montoya sure oval victory will come

Juan Pablo Montoya is confident he can end his wait for a breakthrough NASCAR Sprint Cup oval victory. The Colombian was leading until three laps to go at Dover, when Tony Stewart managed to slip by and demote him into second.

Keselowski, Penske penalised again

June 5th, 2013

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Keselowski, Penske penalised again

Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski, his crew chief Paul Wolfe and the Penske team have all been penalised after his car failed a post-race technical inspection after last weekend’s race at Dover. The car was found to be in violation of Sections 12-4J (any determination by NASCAR that equipment used in a race does not conform to the rules), 20-12.8.1B, (minimum front car height) and 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing) of the series’ regulations

Stewart says win won’t cure all woes

June 4th, 2013

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Stewart says win won’t cure all woes

Tony Stewart admits he would never have predicted the resurgence that brought his Stewart-Haas team victory in the Dover NASCAR Sprint Cup race .

Johnson frustrated by Dover penalty

June 3rd, 2013

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Johnson frustrated by Dover penalty

Jimmie Johnson admitted he was frustrated by his penalty in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Dover race, as he reckons Juan Pablo Montoya was partly to blame for it. Johnson was shown the black flag for jumping the final restart while he was fighting for victory with Montoya, who was leading the event at that point.

Keselowski facing Dover sanctions

June 3rd, 2013

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Keselowski facing Dover sanctions

NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski is facing sanctions after his car failed post-race inspections following Sunday’s race at Dover. The Penske driver finished in fifth position in the race, but his #2 car measured too low in post-race inspections and he could be penalised when NASCAR officials review the case tomorrow. Michael Waltrip Racing’s Martin Truex Jr

Stewart denies Montoya Dover win

June 2nd, 2013

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Stewart denies Montoya Dover win

Tony Stewart denied Juan Pablo Montoya Dover NASCAR Sprint Cup victory with a passing move just two laps from the finish. Montoya had moved into contention for his first oval win in NASCAR when he beat Jimmie Johnson out of the pits during the final yellow

Hamlin secures pole at Dover

May 31st, 2013

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Hamlin secures pole at Dover

Denny Hamlin claimed a second straight NASCAR Sprint Cup pole position as he led qualifying for Sunday’s round at Dover International Speedway. Despite feeling the one-mile oval is one of his weakest venues, Hamlin was able to produce a 22.788-second to repeat the pole he secured in the last Cup event there last September. Joe Gibbs Racing secured three of the top four positions, as Hamlin’s team-mates Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth put their Toyotas on row two.

Kernich Tops in Class B

by Chris Owens on May 31st, 2013

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Kernich Tops in Class B

With the Lady in Black, Darlington Raceway in the rear view mirror, NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series teams headed north to Richmond International Raceway in Virginia for the first short track of the season.  121 sim-racers would take to the 0.725 mile track just outside of the capital city for a race during the third week of the season. Brandon Hauck came away with the victory in the Strength of Field race, collecting 304 points for the week.  Brian Day was second with 286 points followed by Joe Slama, Brandon Buie2 and Anthony Kenrich the top five. Following Richmond, Anthony Kernich sits atop the overall points for the season with 788 points while Buie2 moves to second.  With his victory at Richmond, Brandon Hauck moves to third, 183 points out [...]