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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.
Tour Modifieds Set to Roar in 2011 Season One
by Tim Terry on January 31st, 2011
Stops at Irwindale, Bristol and Dover Highlight Schedule
With Week 13 drawing to a close on the iRacing simulation, the cars and stars of the NASCAR Tour Modified series are set to get back to business for their third season. During the 2010 Season Four campaign 438 sim racers took part in 143 races with 53 of those scoring victories over the twelve week, ten track season. Those numbers are expected to grow in 2011 as the online racing competition ramps up when the hotly-contested sim racing tour opens in Irwindale on February 1st.
A new season of NASCAR Tour Modified racing is upon us.
Speaking of Irwindale, the California track will see competition in the iRacing NASCAR Tour Modified class for the first time in the series existence. The famed facility joins Bristol and Dover on the schedule as new stops for the tour in its third season while Oxford Plains Speedway along with second dates at Thompson International and Stafford Motor Speedways have been dropped. This is the first time in series history that a schedule change has been issued, which most drivers seem to have taken a shine to.
“I like the schedule,” commented Baltic, Connecticut’s Chris Forster. “It has a good mix that I think will draw in some new drivers!”
2010 Season Four Division Two champion Dustin Seney is looking forward to Week Eight of the upcoming season to visit one of the new venues. “Bristol should be a blast,” stated an excited Seney about the date with the historic high banked half mile.
The strength of competition in the NASCAR Tour Modifieds runs deep throughout the field of cars. Last season Untamed Motorsports and their team of drivers accomplished many feats which will look to be duplicated in 2011. Led up by Daniel Valley and his father Royce, the team of Shane Kline, Herbert Engelhart, Jerold John, Robert Sandt along with Shawn and David Colley all have their eyes set on the overall racing championship in the division. After all, Engelhart came home second overall in the chase behind Winter Harbor, Maine’s Justin Trombley last season and had a solid finish to the 2010 Season Four.
John on the other hand is looking to set a record of his own. After two seasons of NASCAR Tour Modified racing, he currently holds the record for starts with 125 and sits second in the feature wins with 17. With Trombley only one win ahead of him in the latter category, John could find himself rewriting the record books if he has his way. “I don’t really worry about points as I like running a lot of races,” said John on the strategy heading into battle this season.
That makes it tough running for points, so I just focus on wins!”
The series has some stiff drivers expected to run full-time in 2011 and that has drivers like Paul Wisniewski sharpening up his game. “A lot of good drivers joined from mid-season on, so replicating my top fifteen points finish is going to be tough,” commented the Griswold, Connecticut driver. Wisniewski recorded two wins and sixteen top five finishes in twenty-four starts in 2010 Season Four en route to a second place run in Division Two.
The Time Trial championship will also be one to watch this season. 2010 Season Four overall and Division Two champ Engelhart edged out Division One champ Kline by one point after leaving Thompson last time around. Ironically, Kline has finished second in both seasons of Time Trial competition in NASCAR Tour Modified history – something he will look to avenge in 2011.
Following the one week layoff for the NASCAR Tour Modified drivers you can bet they are chomping at the bit and are ready to hit the track once again. The ground pounders light up the track once again on February 1st at Irwindale Speedway as we begin the chase to crown our third NASCAR Tour Modified champion. Who will join the likes of David Hutto and Justin Trombley as champions? Will we see someone eclipse the record for wins in a season currently held by Herbert Engelhart at fourteen? What kind of racing will we see out of the new venues on the schedule? All will be answered in the next twelve weeks and you can follow along here at inRacingNews.com.
Until next week, keep the hammer down and we’ll see you at the track!
Herb Engelhart
February 1st, 2011 at 2:13 pmGreat article Tim! Thanks.
JOHN ETTNER
February 1st, 2011 at 3:06 pmGood Luck to Herb Engelhart in the #1 Wisconsin Badger car. Should win it all this season. Go get’em Herb. GO PACKERS.
Mary Ettner
February 1st, 2011 at 11:34 pmThat’s my boy. . . .Go get ‘em, Herb!!!! Don’t forget to call home when you’re not busy racing!! Mom
Paul Wisniewski
February 2nd, 2011 at 4:10 amNice article, this has got me pumped.
David Brownell
February 2nd, 2011 at 12:51 pmAnother Great Article
Herb Engelhart
February 2nd, 2011 at 10:34 pmOk Mom LMAO!