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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.
Daytona Double
by David Phillips on February 23rd, 2012
Last weekend saw the 2012 World Tour of iRacing kicked-off with the Roar before the 2.4 and the 2.4 Hours of Daytona – a fitting debut for the newly-rescanned Daytona International Speedway. The road racing doubleheader was a hit, to say the least, with nearly 1,900 sim racers taking to the 12 turn, 3.56 mile r-oval in their Pontiac Solstices, Mazda MX-5s, VW Jetta TDis, Mustang FR500s and Riley Mk XXs. The Pontiacs, Mazdas and VWs frolicked in the virtual daylight of Friday’s Roar before the 2.4, while Saturday saw the Mustangs and Rileys take to track under the lights of the all new night-time version of the track for the grand-daddy of the World Tour of iRacing, the iRacing.com 2.4 Hours of Daytona.
A full field of Daytoa Prototypes and Mustangs prepares for iRacing's first big night race at Daytona International Speedway: the 2.4 Hours of Daytona.
With races Friday afternoon and evening, the Roar before the 2.4 saw 787 starters across the board (161 Pontiacs, 163 VWs and 463 Mazdas) in 22 splits. Less than 24 hours later, the iRacing.com 2.4 Hours of Daytona took the green flag with no fewer than 875 Rileys going at it and more than 200 Mustangs joining in the fun.
Speaking of fun, some iRacers just couldn’t get enough of Daytona. Timothy Stall, for example, raced in both iterations of the Roar before the 2.4, taking a win and a second in the Mazda MX5 class, before driving his Mustang to a third place in the 2.4 Hours. Darin Gangi, Giovanni Mungin and Maximilian Vietmeier did Stall one better, in that they won a race in both the Roar and the 2.4. Gangi “roared” to a win in the VW Jetta TDi, and came back to win again in the 2.4 in his Daytona Prototype. Mungin won in Solstice and DP, while Vietmeier was victorious in VW as well as Mustang, and more than a dozen other iRacers made the podium on multiple occasions.
As for the particulars, Solstice winners included Eric Foss, Miko Paavilainen, Chris Hughson, Duncan Coppedge, Joni Hagner, Jonathan Auger, Anti J Saarinen, Ryan Packard, Chris Hannigan, Andrew Massey, Thomas Christ, Bryan Horowitz, Christian Pedersen, Mungin, Mike Koch, Adam Facciponti, Gabriel Olochwoszcz, Norbert Lakomecz, Michael Spieles, Ian Boyd, Thomas Chappell and Steve Eszenyi.
The Mazda throng was paced by Henning Cordes, Ernest Deakyne, David Presle, David Massieux, Chad Peterson, Arnaud Lacombe, Dustin Lengert, Joao Rodriguez, Timothy Stoll, Michael Morrison2, Miika Virkki, Christopher Shella, Brian Harford, Brian Sponseller, Carson Downs, Jake Forster, Alex Scribner, Ryan Ingle, Caleb Hindes, Adam Strawmyer, Robert Padavich and Sebastian Taylor.
Two of the more than 460 Mazda MX5s to contest the Roar before the 2.4 stage a thrilling finish.
And on the VW side, Gangi, Nick Johnston, Kevin Parrish, Jonathan Cyr, Vietmeier, Dustin McGrew, Adam Bluhm, Grant Bray, Florian Bonjour, Simon Trendell, Phil Schroeder, Joe Hubbard, Marco Arcidiancono, Ben Maehrlein, Tom Czarny, Chip Disharoon, Travis Kerslake, Mark Robertson, David York, Dan Bullis, Bradley Hieb and Matthew Davis visited the Winners Circle.
Solstice runners-up included Facciponti, Jady Baumgardner, Blake Townend, Kevin Browne, Lance Gomez Jr, Alexander Fornieles, Nick Frangoulis, Timo Verhoest, JP Smith, Jeff Ramsdell, Jeffrey Detrick, Greg Berkowitz, Adam Massey, Daniel Dunham, Shawn Murphy,, Sam Winemiller, Cody Dusty, Joshua Scott, Seth Eggert, Doug Caddick, Mike A Taylor and Robert Reynolds.
Wheeling their MX5s into second place in class were Dylan Sharman, Bradley Walker, Benjamin Harste, Ricardo Machuca, Michael Melvin, Stoll, Ryan Reynolds, Mathieu Branchereau, Stephen Spillers, Maxime Paquette, Jens Weimer, Christopher Shella, Kevin Bobbitt, Jonathan Goring, Justin Thompson, Allen Krier, Ron Thomas, Steven Clagg (in both the afternoon and evening races), Chad Coleman, Tim King, Chris Overland and Joshua Gayman.
A crowded second step of the VW podium was occupied by Scott Michaels, Mike Nachtigal, James Yates, Scott Kennedy, Aaron Likens, Brendan Kaczmarek, Matthew Davis, Jonathan Butel, Sascha Moenig, Eric Paradis, Injo Jeon, Zachary Morris, Jesus Blanco Barreiro, Duncan Reed2, Shawn Cole, Curtis James, Jason Gallagher, Shawn Troester, Bart Randolph, Dylan Roberts, George Harrell and Chuck Johnson.
Third places in Solstice went to Browne, Chris Keogh, Eric Busillo, Steve Rousseau, Loren Bateman, Juan Rodriguez, Petri Pyöriä, Sebastian Molinari, Armando Vargas, Mike Budzein, Mark Massar, Kurt Bagnell, Jack Turner, Kyle Robinson, Vince Marsh, Steve Hawkins, John-Paul Fauvarque, Eckhart von Glan, Matthias Willhardt, David Meetze, Travin Morgan and Pete Zehler.
Their counterparts in Mazda included Marius Golombeck, Stefan Overgaard, Darren Seal, Parker Kligerman, Brett Stephens, Ryan Reynolds, Eke Dávid, Chris E Pence, Jeffrey Lapalme, Brad Patton, Bryan Barns, Frederic Cantigneau, Leigh Higgins, Connor Babel, James Wheeler, Chad Coleman (who picked-up a second place in the other MX5 race), Eric Leichtle, Shaun Schernitzki, Murray Simister, Matt DeReus, Ted Hough and Neil Fasekas.
And (virtual) VW bronze medals go to Trey Cauley, James Yates, Matt Ferris, Andreas Wagner, Vincent Wood, Richard Crozier, Dennis Melchert, Roberto Hernandez Gotor, Carl Fredrik Hersoug, Roger Billings, Salvatore Rossi, Vedran Broz, Jay Bonvouloir, Bryan Goddard, Aaron Babcock, Javier Tincani, Chas Lawrence, Fabio Andreaza, Ronny Granzow, Brandon Wright, Kevin Martin and Jerry Buracki.
Less than 24 hours later, the Rileys and Mustangs took to the spotlight, literally, as they were christening the new night version of the track. Some 875 sim racers wheeled-out their Daytona Prototypes, with more than 200 pony cars joining the fun. DP winners included Gangi, András Király, Shaun Stroud, Ronald Gross, Shaun Cole, Sebastian Lohse, Brad Wright, Jacob Nielsen, Raymond Mooney, Joe Yenchick, Sergei Soldatov, Mungin, Wim Stockmans, Jack Breuker, Richard Dean, Giorgio Ponti, Chris Seymour, Lance Williams, Chris Hall, Joe Letteriello, Jeremy Bourbeau, Allen Kareth, Kyle Williamson, Dennis Ellis, Ian Plasch and Patrick O’Brien.
Inevitably, some of the 1,900 sim racers taking part in the races were destined to depart Daytona disappointed . . .
Mustang winners included Michaels, Vietmeier, David Jaques, Nenad Matijevic, Jordan Westfall, Landon Harrison, Byron Daley, Alexandre Fornieles, Don Davis, Tony Luckoski, Troy Anderson, Kyle Germanton, Ricky Dalton, Cory McLemore, David A Wilson Jr, Anthony Muniz, Ty McWhirter, Joseph Perry, Sean Rafferty, George Mastrokostas and Marty Vrana.
Riley runners-up included Dave Gelink, Jonathan Pierson, Alexandre Gravouille, Mike Kelley, Ronnie Akesson, Roberto Zini, Kyle McCartney2, Mario Geseirich, Heitor Luiz, Donald Sklenka, Bruce Perry, Ben Williamson, Michael Wenning, Chad Coleman, Brian Harford, Steven Dager Jr, Joe Jacalone, Lorenzo Teobaldi, Matt Berndt, Nick Terebuch, Tyler Hill, Eric Laval, Jeffrey Schloss, Mark A Reed, Roger Sievert and Bruno J St-Pierre.
Mounting the second step of the Mustang podium were Billings, Cordes, Hannigan and Zehler along with Eric Smith, Fabian Jastremski, Petr Lisa, Tony Johns, Dennis Melchert, Steve Claeys, Brandon Pantas, Martin Wilson, Simon van Duijune, Gabriel A Bechtold, Bruce Lawson, Jason Poisson, John Andrade III, Thomas Kraft, Stacy Hunter, David Houser and Marc Meyers.
Third place in DP went to Goddard, Evan Maillard, Mads Buhr, John Mallia, Naoya Nagai, Tony Repussard, Sergey Bazhenov, Bedros Magardichian, Patrick Mercier, Patrick Spence, Joe Hubbard, Derek Roeleveld, David ter Stal, Timothy Johnston, Ken Mckenzie, Michael Koroleff, Eric Miller, Clayton Ramstead, Jyrypekka Lehtinen, Bruce Clay, Jim Wallen, Curtis James, Derek Schmitt, William Kabela, Brian Bennett2 and Hunter Lynn.
And making the final step of the pony car podium were Dusty, Ferris, Gomez, Stoll, Eric Smith, Jay Osborne, Mikey Grems, Luca Pirovano, Chad Simpson, Teruaki Kato, Lee Tomlinson, Justin M Wilson, Mattew Reinoehl, Andrew Kirschenman, Chris Cable, Josh R Keith, Derek Voecks, Ted Hough, Joshua Scott, Paul Bowers and Ed Cohee.
bob winslow
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:46 pmwhat a great time!….with so many racers, the competion in each split was very even….competition was tough, even in our low split, we had a wicked fun race!
Jonathan Rex
February 23rd, 2012 at 9:56 pmVery impressed with the level of clean driving going on during th race. In general a very respextful group of drivers.
Ryan Packard
February 23rd, 2012 at 10:51 pmThis was a fantastic event put on by iRacing! Everything went off without an issue and the level of competition was excellent throughout! I will definitely be racing these next year!
Darin Gangi
February 23rd, 2012 at 11:15 pmWoohoo ! I made inRacingNews !