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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.

O’Young returns to Le Mans

May 9th, 2013

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O’Young returns to Le Mans

Touring car and sportscar driver Darryl O’Young is returning to the Le Mans 24 Hours after a four-year absence with the AF Corse Ferrari team. The Canadian-born Chinese driver, who is racing with the ROAL BMW team in this year’s World Touring Car Championship, has signed to drive one of AF’s GTE Am class Ferrari 458 Italias in the French enduro on June 22/23.

Erebus’s V8 Mercedes unveiled

February 14th, 2013

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Erebus’s V8 Mercedes unveiled

Erebus Motorsport’s all-new Mercedes V8 Supercar was launched in Australia on Thursday. The three E63 AMGs, which are built to V8 Supercars’ new Car of The Future regulations, were presented along with drivers Maro Engel, Tim Slade and Lee Holdsworth. Team owner Betty Klimenko said: “At the Bathurst 12 Hours last year I spoke with a representative from AMG and he told me ‘I don’t believe this will ever happen.’ “This project has been a dream of mine for as long as I can remember and tonight this dream has become a reality; there is a bit of a sense of disbelief that we’re here.

Murphy back to HRT for V8 enduros

February 5th, 2013

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Murphy back to HRT for V8 enduros

Four-time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg Murphy will return to Holden Racing Team as an endurance co-driver for this year’s long-distance V8 Supercars events. Murphy was keen to remain in the Holden fold when his previous team Kelly Racing switched to Nissan for 2013, so chose to focus on a Holden seat for Sandown and Bathurst rather than chasing a full-time deal with another brand. He has now secured a place alongside either Garth Tander or James Courtney at HRT, where he took his first Bathurst win in 1996

Stoner has no idea of potential in V8s

January 28th, 2013

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Stoner has no idea of potential in V8s

Casey Stoner says it is almost impossible to set targets for his first season in the V8 Supercar Development Series given his lack of four-wheel experience. The two-time MotoGP champion signed a one-year deal to race a Triple 8 Holden Commodore on Saturday. Stoner has had one full-test with the team already, but said it would count for little come the start of the season and that he would need to ‘fast track’ his development as a result.

Stoner confirms V8 deal

January 26th, 2013

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Stoner confirms V8 deal

Casey Stoner has confirmed that he will, as expected, race on four wheels this year.

Huff to make Bathurst 12 Hours debut

January 25th, 2013

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Huff to make Bathurst 12 Hours debut

World Touring Car Champion Rob Huff will make his Bathurst debut next month in the 12-hour race at the legendary circuit.

No full-time V8 seat for Murphy

December 21st, 2012

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No full-time V8 seat for Murphy

Four-time Bathurst 1000 winner Greg Murphy will not compete in V8 Supercars full-time in 2013.

Ingall to retire after 2013

December 18th, 2012

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Ingall to retire after 2013

2005 V8 Supercars champion Russell Ingall plans to retire at the end of the 2013 season.

Whincup, Dumbrell take tight win

October 7th, 2012

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Whincup, Dumbrell take tight win

Jamie Whincup and Paul Dumbrell claimed Bathurst 1000 victory by just 0.3129 seconds as Whincup resisted enormous pressure from David Reynolds to the flag. The timing of the final safety car period left all the leaders playing a cat-and-mouse game of fuel conservation heading towards the finish – alternately backing off and charging to try and make it to the end.

Davison on pole for Bathurst 1000

October 6th, 2012

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Davison on pole for Bathurst 1000

Will Davison denied Jamie Whincup pole position in the top-10 qualifying shoot-out for the 2012 Bathurst 1000. Ford Performance Racing driver Davison was the sixth man to try for pole after going fourth fastest in Friday’s initial qualifying session

Sarrazin, Minassian for Surfers V8s

August 30th, 2012

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Sarrazin, Minassian for Surfers V8s

Sportscar stars Nicolas Minassian, Stephane Sarrazin and Jamie Campbell-Walter will join Brad Jones Racing’s line-up for V8 Supercars’ Surfers Paradise event in October. The V8 regulars are all paired with co-drivers from international motorsport for the Queensland street races. Former Peugeot LMP1 team-mates Minassian and Sarrazin will share BJR Holdens with team regulars Fabian Coulthard and Jason Bright respectively

Klien joins Walkinshaw for Bathurst

May 17th, 2012

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Klien joins Walkinshaw for Bathurst

Former Formula 1 driver Christian Klien will be racing in the V8 Supercar endurance races after securing a deal with Walkinshaw Racing. The Austrian will partner Russell Ingall in the Holden Commodore in the Sandown 500 in September and the Bathurst 1000 in October.

Papis to make V8 Supercar debut

April 12th, 2012

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Papis to make V8 Supercar debut

Max Papis will make his V8 Supercar debut this year after joining Dick Johnson Racing for the Gold Coast 600. The 42-year-old Italian, whose only high-profile race this year was the Daytona 24 Hours, will share one of Dick Johnson Racing’s Ford Falcons with team regular Steven Johnson at the event at Surfers Paradise. The former Formula 1 racer and Champ Car race winner is not the only international driver to be named in DJR’s Surfers line-up.

Nissan to join V8 Supercars

February 8th, 2012

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Nissan to join V8 Supercars

Nissan will become the first manufacturer other than Ford or Holden to race in Australian touring cars in two decades when it joins V8 Supercars next year. The deal, which is scheduled to be announced in Melbourne on Thursday morning, local time, will cover a four-car works entry run by Kelly Racing

iRacer Profile – Dylan Sharman

by David Phillips on January 28th, 2012

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motorsport simulations

Call him “Dillman” or “Sharmanator” or just plain Dylan, 19 year old Dylan Sharman is certainly a leading candidate for the title of “King of SK Modifieds.  After all the resident of Nuriootpa, South Australia has nearly 50 SK Modified wins to his credit in the past three seasons – and the 2011 Season 3 and 4 championships.  He slipped a little in Season 4, finishing second to Rusty Greer despite taking 19 wins in 21 starts. But Sharman is more than an SK Mod specialist.  In recent weeks he’s won races in everything from the HPD-ARX01c to the Mazda MX-5 Cup and Class A Impala.  And as his spectacular screen shots attest, the steering wheel, throttle and brake pedals are not the only sim racing tools he’s mastered. Q:   [...]

Tander/Percat win Bathurst thriller

October 9th, 2011

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Tander/Percat win Bathurst thriller

Garth Tander and Nick Percat clinched victory for the Holden Racing Team by just 0.29 seconds over Triple Eight Holden’s Craig Lowndes in an outstanding finish to the Bathurst 1000. Lowndes, who shared his car with Mark Skaife, had gone into the closing stages only fourth, passing Brad Jones Racing’s Jason Bright with 16 laps of the 161 to go, then overtaking pole-winner Greg Murphy (Kelly Racing Holden) three laps later

Tander leads opening qualifying

October 7th, 2011

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Tander leads opening qualifying

Holden Racing Team driver Garth Tander was quickest in the opening qualifying session for the Bathurst 1000. Tander, who shares his Holden with Nick Percat, put in a 2m07.6640s lap in the closing moments to seal the top spot. Subsequent challenges from Mark Winterbottom (Ford Performance Racing) and championship leader Jamie Whincup (Triple Eight Holden) fell just short

Bathurst secure until 2034

May 19th, 2011

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Bathurst secure until 2034

The Bathurst 1000 will remain as part of the V8 Supercar Championship until at least 2034, thanks to a new deal that has been agreed. The race’s previous contract had been due to expire at the end of 2014, but an agreement has now been reached between V8 Supercars and Bathurst Regional Council to retain the race for another 20 years. “This is an outstanding result for the Bathurst region and reaffirms Mount Panorama’s status as Australia’s premier motor racing venue,” said Bathurst mayor Paul Toole.

Button drives Bathurst in F1 car

March 22nd, 2011

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Button drives Bathurst in F1 car

Jenson Button became the first man to take a Formula 1 car around the legendary Bathurst circuit on Tuesday.

Jordan eyeing V8 drive for Surfers

January 5th, 2011

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Jordan eyeing V8 drive for Surfers

British Touring Car Championship race-winner Andrew Jordan is hunting a V8 Supercar drive later this year in the series’ international event at Surfers Paradise. Last year’s Gold Coast 600 attracted the likes of Dario Franchitti, Yvan Muller and Jacques Villeneuve, each sharing a V8 Supercar with a series regular at the Queensland street circuit