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David Phillips
Editor and ChiefDavid 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 WriterChris 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 Writer19 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 WriterJason 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 WriterI 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 WriterI 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 WriterI 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 WriterNathan'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 WriterBorn 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 WriterJordan 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 WriterBorn 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 WriterKenneth 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 WriterI 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 WriterAfter 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.
Coming Soon, the iRacing Driving School
by Kevin Bobbitt on February 9th, 2010
iRacing's Dave Kaemmer gets ready for his turn on camera.
Dave Kaemmer and I spent a few days in Indianapolis last week filming portions of the soon to be released iRacing Driving School. The shoot was great, the weather, not-so-much. I could have driven back to Boston in less time than it took to fly!
We are still several months away from launching the school but it is shaping up nicely. The iRacing Driving School will feature about a dozen separate chapters, each being its own stand-alone video on the member site. Many of the chapters will finish-up with exercises designed to help you practice what you just learned.
The basic idea of the school is to help iRacers become better racers. Many iRacers have no formal racing education and that often leads to reaching a plateau where no matter what you try you don’t seem to get any faster. There are also many iRacers who are completely new to the sport and by teaching them the basics right from the start, we think it will improve everyone’s enjoyment of the service. After all, faster racers means better racing for everyone!
iRacing Driving School host, Chris Agos, gets ready to read through a script in front of the green screen.
The school actually began taking shape last year. We started first with the idea; next we needed the curriculum, scripts and exercises. Having just filmed the on-camera instructor we are now ready to move to production and begin incorporating in-sim footage so students can see what we are talking about.
Chapters subjects will include:
• Vehicle dynamics
• Fundamentals of the racing line
• Using your eyes
• Braking
• Shifting
• Race-craft
• Race starts
• Pre-race – practice, qualifying and time trials
A lot of work remains to be done on the school to get it ready for launch, but we are excited to have made it this far already. Look for an announcement later this spring for the launch date.
19Kilo
February 9th, 2010 at 3:57 pmReally good idea, this will be a very welcome addition to iRacing. Looking forward to it!
Emmanuel Baako
February 9th, 2010 at 4:00 pmExactly what I’m looking for. Keeping a close eye on the development of this.
Kevin O'Keefe
February 9th, 2010 at 4:01 pmGreat to hear.
Alex Ulleri
February 9th, 2010 at 4:08 pmThat’s great to hear. Looking forward to it.
Michael S Wright
February 9th, 2010 at 4:08 pmVery nice. I look forward to it with great anticipation.
Kevin Viebrock
February 9th, 2010 at 4:13 pmBravo, iRacing!!
Steve Claeys
February 9th, 2010 at 4:15 pmLooks good but I hope we get more then standerd brake here and turn there explenations.
Lots of people need advanced, almost private teaching.
Michael Hughes
February 9th, 2010 at 4:24 pmGreat idea and I sure to use it, but I would also love to see you add a video set-up guide
Jason Noble
February 9th, 2010 at 4:25 pmGreat to see that this is coming.
Alex Ulleri
February 9th, 2010 at 4:29 pmYes this is true. This covers a lot of the basics, which are needed, but I would also love to see some more advanced teaching for driving techniques and setup work.
Paul Kelly
February 9th, 2010 at 4:41 pmThis will be fantastic. iRacing just keeps improving, responding to the needs of its users. Thank you!
Vincent Sciuto
February 9th, 2010 at 5:16 pmGreat to see this finally nearing fruition! I know you guys at iRacing have wanted this in the software since you were in beta still. I hope it becomes what you always hoped it would. Personally speaking, I can’t wait to check it out!
Best of luck!
ryan terry
February 9th, 2010 at 5:44 pmcant w8, hope i can take part…
Paul Morin
February 9th, 2010 at 5:52 pmVery good idea.
A thing like this can only help. Espacially in setting up a car for qualification and racing.
Thank you Iracing
Vitalogy
February 9th, 2010 at 7:13 pmI’m looking forward this!
If I can bring a suggestion,
(do not delay the release for this but) I would love it if we could show subtitles as option.
English isn’t my language and it’s difficult for me to understand spoken English and stay concentrated. My reading skill is much better. Also, you could (or let fans do it) translate the English subtitles in many different languages.
Lincoln Miner
February 9th, 2010 at 8:19 pmWhy not release it episode by episode instead of waiting to finish all 12?
Wendy Sarrett
February 9th, 2010 at 9:05 pmExcellent!!! I am very much looking forward to it!! I think Vitalogy has an excellent suggestion. I think having subtitles/transcript in other languages as well as other languages would be extremely helpful not just for people whose first language is not English but those of us (like myself) who don’t have great hearing. Also, as Lincoln said, releasing them episodicallyy would also be nice. (I realize though these may not be logistically or financially feasible.)
George Kuyumji
February 9th, 2010 at 9:11 pmSubtitles would be good for people who dont have english as there first language.
I really hope the school will over more then just the basics.
Max S.
February 9th, 2010 at 9:38 pmVery nice addition to the servcice.
What I acutally would add is a tutorial on how to build half way decent setups.
No matter what I am tweaking, I am not getting way faster. And always rely on the virtual crew chief page doesn’t help my understanding getting better.
dunc
February 9th, 2010 at 10:11 pmAn idea whose time has come. Hope to see a nice implementation. The Rally School in Richard Burns Rally was well done, with theory, instruction, a demonstration, then goals to achieve yourself on the track.
Even the Gran Turismo tutorials about line were quite instructive, with the various medals based on times through a set course.
Kenton Flaig
February 9th, 2010 at 11:08 pmI hope you include a section titled something like:
“Driving mistakes so very, very bad that making of of them will leave you way more embarrased than that guy who sh*t his pants in the second grade.”
Show replays to demonstrate them.
Bob
February 10th, 2010 at 12:48 amI hope you’re going to add a class on chassis setups!!
Bryan Carey
February 10th, 2010 at 12:49 amI think along with this it would be awesome to have a detailed setup guide for each car, and explain how each setting works in the sim.
The combination of these video’s and those guides would make iRacing that much more of an immersive experience
Just don’t stop improving
MM
February 10th, 2010 at 3:49 amgreat stuff iRacing!
Johnny
February 10th, 2010 at 11:42 amNice, Cant wait to get in the seat lol
Dave M
February 10th, 2010 at 1:34 pmAWESOME!!!!
Alex
February 11th, 2010 at 2:07 amIt would be awesome to be able to drive a track (split screen side by side) and see the “pro” synchronized with you.
jeff thomas
February 11th, 2010 at 8:30 pmgood news.. think a lot of folks have been lookin forward to this…
take ur time do a 1st class job on it please!
JT
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Bob Beach
February 12th, 2010 at 12:39 amCool Deal! I’ll take all the help I can get.!
Keep up the great work iRacing!
Quinn
February 13th, 2010 at 2:17 pmThis is great news. I’m going to agree with a number of comments here; please, create an IN-DEPTH chapter(s) on setups!! It has been my experience that many of the skills taught in racing schools would actually come naturally from just doing laps. Car setup is a different matter, and in my opinion is one of the main reasons for the “plateau”.
Most of the cars on iracing are tuned quite well, there are a few that are b…a…d! It would be great to learn more about this “dark art” of racing. (I’m aware of the setup guide pdf. It hasn’t helped me at all, and many of the effects I see and feel from tweaking while using the guide are opposite to what the guide says should happen.)
Also, it would be great if we had ghost cars. I’ve always found them very helpful in improving my times. It’s just an idea.
Thank you!
JJ
February 14th, 2010 at 3:48 pmGreat, great, great!
But don’t forget the idea of the video set-up guide.
Steve Wood
February 14th, 2010 at 9:18 pmI just hope there’s Road Racing instruction
Robert Dunn
February 16th, 2010 at 5:44 pmNice idea and i’m sure like everything else in iracing, it will come with a price tag
Loren Doolittle
March 23rd, 2010 at 7:42 pmSet-ups should be the “principles” of set-up. And than let the member work and practice these “principles” to achieve set-ups that work for the individual members driving abilities..
toby
May 16th, 2010 at 5:04 pmWe need chassis set up training also PLEASE
Drakon
May 26th, 2010 at 5:31 amYes, Setup Training is very much needed. I think each series should have its own setup class as each car/truck is somewhat to extremely different. Depending on how it’s made up and how long it takes to make everything you could have a class for each course, teaching breaking points on road courses and what the preferred line at the ovals are. I would also recommend a class on passing, what not to do and when to let the other person go by. That would help a lot of the rookies out I think.
Domingo Brozie
November 8th, 2010 at 7:11 pmI’d have to admit with you here. Which is not something I usually do! I love reading a post that will make people think. Also, thanks for allowing me to comment!
Lawerence Epperheimer
November 12th, 2010 at 11:25 pmI like this quote, Mind your own business.
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November 16th, 2010 at 4:50 amTY for blogging this, it was quite handy and told me immensely
Amanda Marcum
November 16th, 2010 at 4:12 pma few of my favorites, a long time for me were a few. Well another article that will work out just fine. I need something like this just finishing up, fortunately for me mine is on the same theme as this post. Glad, happy trails.