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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.

Toyota gets Le Mans rules break

May 30th, 2013

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Toyota gets Le Mans rules break

Toyota and the other petrol-engined LMP1 prototypes have been handed a performance break ahead of the Le Mans 24 Hours next month. Petrol-powered P1s have been granted an extra three litres of fuel capacity by the FIA endurance committee, which brings the Toyota TS030 HYBRID up 76 litres and non-hybrids entries such as Rebellion Racing’s Lola-Toyota B12/60s up to 78 litres. The move follows the domination of the opening two rounds of the World Endurance Championship by the turbodiesel Audi R18 e-tron quattro, which has not been affected by the latest Balance of Performance changes.

McLaren finally seeing signs of progress

May 28th, 2013

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McLaren finally seeing signs of progress

McLaren believes it is finally seeing signs of progress with its troublesome car after a small lift in performance at the Monaco Grand Prix.

Spain qualifying quotes: Toro Rosso

May 11th, 2013

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Daniel Ricciardo – 11th : “I was pleased with the way the session went overall, particularly Q2 and I think we got the most we could out of the car. While yesterday was a good day for us, this morning was nowhere near as positive, as I had problems with the balance on the car. So we had to play catch-up and this afternoon we managed to get it right.

Formula 1 in limbo over 2014 rules

May 10th, 2013

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Formula 1 in limbo over 2014 rules

Formula 1′s bid to get 2014′s regulations nailed down has been left in a state of limbo by the lack of a Concorde Agreement. After years when the governance structure was laid out clearly by the famous tripartite agreement between the teams, the FIA and the commercial rights holder, F1 is currently without any such deal in place, or an accord to carry on operating under the terms of the previous one as has happened before. It means the former structure of rules getting debated and approved in Technical and Sporting Working Groups, ratified by the Formula 1 Commission and then rubber-stamped by the FIA’s World Council, is no more.

Bahrain practice quotes: Marussia

April 19th, 2013

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Max Chilton – 21st/20th: “I’m pleased that I was able to complete plenty of running in both sessions today. This is especially important given the tough conditions we are facing, which are obviously impacting quite a lot on the way the car is behaving here.

Bahrain practice quotes: Sauber

April 19th, 2013

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Nico Hulkenberg – 15th/17th: “We were able to run our practice programme as planed today. Everything went quite smoothly

China race quotes: Mercedes

April 14th, 2013

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Lewis Hamilton – 3rd: It was a good race for me today and whilst I would have loved the win, I’m really happy with third place and being on the podium for the second race in a row. Fernando and Kimi were just a little bit too fast for us during the race and my tyres were shot at the end trying to keep ahead of Sebastian. I could see his car getting bigger and bigger in my mirrors so it was nice to be able to hang on for the third place

Malaysia qualifying quotes: Toro Rosso

March 23rd, 2013

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Daniel Ricciardo – 13th: “Coming into qualifying today, if I’d been told I could sign on the dotted line for thirteenth, I’d have taken it. It’s a decent result and we haven’t been that far up the time sheets all weekend in practice. Looking at it that way, thirteenth is quite good, but in Q1, we were quite competitive and only one hundredth of a second from the top ten

Vettel says Red Bull shone in damp

March 1st, 2013

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Vettel says Red Bull shone in damp

Sebastian Vettel says the balance of Red Bull’s RB9 still stood out on a day when adverse conditions affected testing programmes all along the Formula 1 pitlane. Vettel, who completed 65 laps, admitted that rain and strong crosswinds meant gathering meaningful data had been extremely limited. Despite that the defending champion said Red Bull still had reason to be encouraged given the balance of the RB9.

Rossi blames poor time on set-up error

February 27th, 2013

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Rossi blames poor time on set-up error

Valentino Rossi admitted set-up tweaks ended up compromising the balance of his Yamaha YZR-M1 on the second day of MotoGP winter testing at Sepang.

Perez: Sauber has pace to make Q3

November 2nd, 2012

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Perez: Sauber has pace to make Q3

Sergio Perez believes Sauber has the pace to make it into Q3 on Saturday after finishing in the top 10 in the second practice session for the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix. The Mexican, who has not finished in the points since the Singapore Grand Prix , was 10th quickest in FP2 after what he labelled as a positive day. “For me it was a good day,” said Perez, who has qualified in the top 10 twice in the past three races

Korea Friday quotes: Caterham

October 12th, 2012

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Giedo van der Garde – 22nd: “Another very useful session for me and the more time I spend in the car the more confident I’m getting. This morning we were running a similar programme to Heikki and apart from some issues with the front tyres graining early on I think we made some good progress on another track that’s new to me. After the first full run we made a few mechanical and aero changes and the car immediately felt much better, giving me more confidence to push a bit harder, but I’m still learning and I want to do what the team asks me, not try and put in the quickest laptimes I can.

Webber confident of strong result

September 23rd, 2012

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Webber confident of strong result

Mark Webber is confident that the unpredictable nature of the Singapore Grand Prix will give him the chance to recover from a disappointing qualifying performance. The Australian lines up seventh for Sunday’s race after lapping 0.570s slower than team-mate Sebastian Vettel. But even though overtaking is difficult at the Marina Bay circuit, Webber believes that there will be plenty of opportunities to recover.

Hamilton buoyed by McLaren handling

September 21st, 2012

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Hamilton buoyed by McLaren handling

Lewis Hamilton was encouraged by the handling of his McLaren following Friday practice for the Singapore Grand Prix. “I am quite comfortable with the car and the guys have done a great job,” said Hamilton after posting the fifth fastest time in the second session , having being second quickest in the opening one . “It feels a lot different to the last race where we had a lot less downforce

Alonso not worried about reliability

September 7th, 2012

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Alonso not worried about reliability

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso shrugged off any concerns over the reliability problems that affected his two Italian Grand Prix free practice sessions and says he does not expect them to re-occur over the weekend. The world championship leader was forced to stop at the Variante Rettifilio five minutes before the end of the first session with an engine problem

Spa victory essential says Button

September 1st, 2012

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Spa victory essential says Button

Jenson Button says winning the Belgian Grand Prix is crucial if he is to remain in the hunt for the 2012 Formula 1 world championship. The McLaren driver was in stunning form at Spa-Francorchamps during qualifying, taking his first pole position in more than three years.

Hungary Saturday quotes: Marussia

July 28th, 2012

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Charles Pic – 21st: “On the whole, I am quite happy with my qualifying today.

Kobayashi baffled by Sauber struggles

July 28th, 2012

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Kobayashi baffled by Sauber struggles

Kamui Kobayashi admitted he was baffled as to why his Sauber team struggled to get its tyres working in qualifying for the Hungarian Grand Prix. Kobayashi, who finished in fourth position in the previous race in Germany, was knocked out in Q2 after Sauber continued to struggle for pace at the Hungaroring

Trident to run Venturini at Silverstone

July 3rd, 2012

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Trident to run Venturini at Silverstone

Trident will add a third car to its GP3 line-up from Silverstone this weekend for Giovanni Venturini. The 20-year-old Italian was a race winner in Auto GP last season, and has competed in Formula Renault 3.5 with BVM Target so far this year

McLaren hopeful of stronger Saturday

June 22nd, 2012

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McLaren hopeful of stronger Saturday

McLaren drivers Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button are optimistic that their team will be back on the pace for Saturday in Valencia after a difficult free practice day for the European Grand Prix. Neither McLaren made it into the top 10 in second practice, with Button 12th and Hamilton 14th