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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.

BMW rubbishes F1 return talk

May 20th, 2013

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BMW rubbishes F1 return talk

BMW has rubbished suggestions that it is considering a Formula 1 return. In the wake of Honda announcing it is coming back to grand prix racing in 2015, F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone tipped BMW to follow suit in the not too distant future. However, BMW itself has distanced itself from such a scenario, and its motorsport boss Jens Marquardt made it clear on Monday that the company was happy focusing on its DTM and sportscar activities

Scheider on pole for DTM opener

May 4th, 2013

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Scheider on pole for DTM opener

Timo Scheider took pole position for the opening round of the 2013 DTM after going fastest on a drying track at Hockenheim. The two-time champion had gone second-fastest in the third part of qualifying in his Abt Sportsline Audi RS5, and so was the third driver to set his time in the single-lap Q4. His 1m35.918s lap knocked Augusto Farfus off the top spot with just Christian Vietoris left to complete his lap

Piquet set to drive BT52 at Goodwood

May 2nd, 2013

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Piquet set to drive BT52 at Goodwood

Three-time Formula 1 world champion Nelson Piquet is being lined up to drive a newly-rebuilt Brabham-BMW BT52 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in July.

BMW plays down DTM favourites tag

April 30th, 2013

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BMW plays down DTM favourites tag

BMW motorsport chief Jens Marquardt has insisted that his cars will not begin the season as overwhelming favourites for the DTM title, despite dominating winter testing. M3s topped all four days of rain-affected testing at Hockenheim earlier this month courtesy of Augusto Farfus, Joey Hand and Marco Wittmann, while the latter was also quickest on one of the four days at Barcelona in March. But Marquardt, who oversaw a comeback DTM campaign in 2012 that ended with Bruno Spengler winning the drivers’ title, Schnitzer the teams’ prize and BMW the manufacturer’s crown, said that a repeat is far from guaranteed.

Honda duo lead Slovakia Ring practice

April 27th, 2013

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Honda duo lead Slovakia Ring practice

Gabriele Tarquini and Tiago Monteiro both dipped under official lap record pace to put Honda firmly on top in the first World Touring Car practice at the Slovakia Ring. The pair spent almost the entire session at the top of the timesheets, with only a brief salvo from the RML Chevrolet of Yvan Muller denying them a clean sweep. It was Monteiro who began fastest, getting to within two thousandths of a second of Norbert Michelisz’s 2012 pole time in the opening nine minutes.

BMW Brazil eyes Spa race with Zonta

April 26th, 2013

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BMW Brazil eyes Spa race with Zonta

The Brazilian BMW team competing in new FIA GT Series is aiming to contest the Spa 24 Hours in July with a line-up including ex-Formula 1 racer Ricardo Zonta. BMW Team Brazil plans to take in the blue-riband round of the Blancpain Endurance Series on July 27/28 with a solo BMW Z4 GT3 as part of preparations for an eventual Le Mans 24 Hours assault.

Hand in front on DTM test day three

April 12th, 2013

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Hand in front on DTM test day three

Joey Hand kept BMW on top of the timesheets for a third straight day of DTM testing at Hockenheim on Thursday. The American, who has switched from the RMG team to RBM for his second year in the series, set the pace in 1m33.284s on his final lap of an afternoon session that began wet and dried out as time wore on

Muller on top in Marrakech practice

April 6th, 2013

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Muller on top in Marrakech practice

Yvan Muller continued his dominant start to his 2013 World Touring Car campaign by topping both practice sessions on the streets of Marrakech. Following his perfect weekend at Monza – where he scored pole position and two race wins – Muller has so far headed every session of the new season save for the cursory Monza warm-up. He was not without competition however, with RML Chevrolet team-mate Tom Chilton and the two works Hondas running him close in both sessions.

Liuzzi sets blistering practice pace

April 6th, 2013

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Liuzzi sets blistering practice pace

Tonio Liuzzi set a blistering time to lead a Mercedes 1-2-3 in free practice for the International Superstars Series opener at Monza. The ex-Formula 1 driver left it late to take the top spot in the second of two sessions, jumping ahead of Romeo Ferraris Mercedes team-mate Thomas Biagi on his last lap with a 1m54.360s – the time a full 1.5s faster than last year’s pole time from Max Pigoli

Paffett keeps Mercedes on top in test

March 27th, 2013

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Paffett keeps Mercedes on top in test

Gary Paffett kept Mercedes on top of the timesheets on the second day of DTM pre-season testing at Barcelona.

Muller fastest in first Monza practice

March 23rd, 2013

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Muller fastest in first Monza practice

Yvan Muller delivered a blistering last-gasp salvo to deny Honda top spot in the opening practice session of the 2013 World Touring Car Championship at Monza. The Frenchman, once again in an RML-run Chevrolet Cruze, had dominated much of the session but was knocked from the top spot when Tiago Monteiro went clear with two minutes to run.

BMW unveils new Z4 GT contender

February 12th, 2013

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BMW unveils new Z4 GT contender

BMW has unveiled the car that will carry its hopes in the American Le Mans Series from this season. The Z4 GTE, which was revealed at the Daytona International Speedway on Tuesday, replaces the successful M3 GT that won the ALMS GT class drivers’ title in 2011 and manufacturers’ crowns in 2010 and ’11 with the Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing squad.

BMW confirms Glock for 2013 season

January 25th, 2013

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BMW confirms Glock for 2013 season

Timo Glock has completed BMW’s DTM line-up for the 2013 season. The 30-year-old German tested for the manufacturer at Valencia this week after being released from his Marussia Formula 1 deal a year early. Following his outing, Glock has now signed a deal to become the eighth and final driver for BMW.

Glock at ease on DTM test debut

January 24th, 2013

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Glock at ease on DTM test debut

Formula 1 refugee Timo Glock felt he settled in quickly as he made his DTM testing debut with BMW at Valencia on Thursday. Glock lost his Marussia F1 drive earlier this week, but swiftly secured the BMW DTM try-out. The German firm, which took Bruno Spengler to last year’s DTM title on its series return , still has one vacancy in its 2013 line-up

Martin joins BMW’s ALMS line-up

January 14th, 2013

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Martin joins BMW’s ALMS line-up

Maxime Martin has joined BMW’s American Le Mans Series line-up for the coming season, as well as being named its DTM test driver. The Belgian, who campaigned BMW machinery for several privateer teams last year, became a factory driver last December after testing a DTM car at Aragon , but has now had his programme confirmed. Martin will be one of four full-time drivers of the new Z4 GTEs in the ALMS.

BMW switches to Z4 for ALMS

December 2nd, 2012

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BMW switches to Z4 for ALMS

BMW’s works American Le Mans Series team Rahal Letterman Lanigan will switch from the M3 GT to a new GTE version of the Z4 for 2013. RLL has run BMW’s ALMS programme since 2009, winning the teams’ and manufacturers’ titles in ’10, then taking a clean sweep of drivers’, teams’ and manufacturers’ crowns the following year. The GT3 variant of the Z4 is already used by BMW teams in European sportscar racing, coming close to the GT1 world title with Vita4One this season.

Wittmann gets BMW DTM race seat

December 2nd, 2012

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Wittmann gets BMW DTM race seat

BMW will promote test driver Marco Wittmann into a race seat as it expands to eight cars for the 2013 DTM. Wittmann finished second in the 2011 Formula 3 Euro Series before switching to his BMW role this year. BMW motorsport boss Jens Marquardt said the 23-year-old German had proved he was worthy of a race chance

Huff claims title as Menu wins finale

November 18th, 2012

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Huff claims title as Menu wins finale

Rob Huff bounced back from a shock race one accident to win his maiden World Touring Car Championship in an action-packed showdown in Macau.

Huff fastest again in final session

November 16th, 2012

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Huff fastest again in final session

Rob Huff repeated his morning form to set the pace in the final World Touring Car Championship practice session ahead of Macau qualifying on Friday afternoon. The Briton’s lap of 2m31.061s was 0.274 seconds faster than championship outsider and RML Chevrolet team-mate Yvan Muller. The three remaining drivers in contention for the 2012 drivers’ crown occupied the top three positions in free practice two, as Alain Menu took third spot.

MacDowall leads China WTCC test

November 2nd, 2012

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Bamboo Engineering’s Alex MacDowall set the fastest lap in testing for the penultimate round of the FIA World Touring Car Championship at the Shanghai International Circuit. The Suzuka Independents’ class winner’s 1m56.304s lap was 0.042 seconds faster than championship challenger Rob Huff’s similar factory RML-run Cruze. Huff is tied on 345 points with three-time champion Yvan Muller at the top of the drivers’ standings, and is fighting for his first WTCC drivers’ title to crown an eight year stint in the championship