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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.

Silverstone going ‘extra mile’ for fans

May 1st, 2013

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Silverstone going ‘extra mile’ for fans

British Grand Prix bosses have promised fans that they have done all they can to try and ensure there is no repeat of the weather-affected troubles that hit last year’s race. But they admitted on Thursday that it may take more success from Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button to secure a race-day sellout again. Silverstone had to deter fans from attending qualifying at the 2012 British GP after freak weather conditions flooded car parks and campsites

MSV launches Formula 4

September 12th, 2012

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MSV launches Formula 4

MotorSport Vision, promoters of the FIA Formula 2 championship , have launched a new junior single seater series in conjunction with the British Racing Drivers’ Club. The UK-based category, titled the BRDC Formula 4 Championship, will run for the first time in 2013

Mike Hewland passes away

August 18th, 2012

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Mike Hewland passes away

Mike Hewland, founder of the Hewland Engineering company that became synonymous with motorsport transmission technology, has died at the age of 89.

F1 teams sure Silverstone ‘will learn’

July 8th, 2012

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F1 teams sure Silverstone ‘will learn’

British Grand Prix chiefs will take on board the lessons from the traffic and parking problems that have overshadowed the Silverstone weekend, and ensure there is no repeat if the event is hit by such bad weather in the future. That is the view of Mercedes chiefs Ross Brawn and Norbert Haug, who believe that race organisers did all they could under difficult circumstances to try and ensure that trouble was minimised after car parks and campsites became waterlogged

Silverstone asks for fans’ patience

July 7th, 2012

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Silverstone asks for fans’ patience

Derek Warwick, the president of the British Racing Drivers’ Club that owns Silverstone, has asked for fans to be ‘patient’ in the wake of the weather problems that have overshadowed the British Grand Prix weekend. With waterlogged campsites and car parks leading to a breakdown of the traffic system on Friday, Silverstone advised fans with normal parking tickets to stay away from the venue for qualifying day in a bid to ensure that race day could be got through without major trouble. The traffic problems have left Silverstone facing intense criticisms about its lack of contingency planning for the conditions, but Warwick reckons the venue did all it could – and could never have predicted the record-levels of rain that hit the venue earlier this week

Silverstone expands investor hunt

May 3rd, 2012

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Silverstone expands investor hunt

Silverstone’s owner, the British Racing Drivers’ Club, is to expand its hunt for investors as it bids to realise its ambitious plans for the future. With the circuit having secured a long-term deal for the British Grand Prix, the BRDC now wants to ramp up development of its 760-acre site to turn it into a leisure and business complex.

Super Nova retains Monza line-up

March 22nd, 2012

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Super Nova retains Monza line-up

Super Nova International has confirmed that Adrian Quaife-Hobbs and Victor Guerin will remain with the Norfolk team for the remainder of the Auto GP World Series.

BRDC mourns loss of ‘great talent’

October 17th, 2011

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BRDC mourns loss of ‘great talent’

Dan Wheldon was one of the ‘great talents of his generation’ according to British Racing Drivers’ Club president Derek Warwick. Wheldon was killed after suffering injuries in an accident during the early stages of the IndyCar Series finale at Las Vegas on Sunday.

Hill wants more support for F1 tracks

September 19th, 2011

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Hill wants more support for F1 tracks

Formula 1 chiefs need to do more to look after the interests of race promoters, claims former world champion Damon Hill, as tracks struggle to juggle the finances of hosting grands prix. Hill has first-hand experience of the difficulties that race organisers face through his experience as the president of Silverstone’s owner the British Racing Drivers’ Club. He stepped down from that role recently.

Plato joins BRDC board

September 15th, 2011

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Plato joins BRDC board

Jason Plato has been appointed to the board of directors of the British Racing Drivers’ Club. Plato, who broke the British Touring Car Championship’s all-time wins record earlier this year, said he was honoured to be voted onto the board

Warwick elected BRDC president

August 25th, 2011

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Warwick elected BRDC president

Derek Warwick has been elected as president of the British Racing Drivers’ Club, succeeding Damon Hill, who announced earlier this year that he was to step down from the role. Warwick, who started 147 Formula 1 grands prix and won both the Le Mans 24 Hours and the World Sportscar Championship as a driver, was confirmed in the role at the BRDC’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday

Silverstone submits planning application

August 12th, 2011

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Silverstone submits planning application

Silverstone has submitted its outline planning application for the ambitious development schme to continue to safeguard the future of the circuit. The application, submitted to the to Aylesbury Vale District Council and South Northants District Council, includes business and technology parks, three hotels, an education campus, and ancillary retail and spectator facilities including a museum of motorsport. According to Silverstone, the development plan will create around 8,400 permanent jobs in the firms and activities attracted to the site, plus an average of around 550 construction jobs per year throughout the development phase

Silverstone plans major upgrade

July 7th, 2011

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Silverstone plans major upgrade

Silverstone bosses hope to sign off plans for a major redevelopment plan of the home of the British Grand Prix on Friday, as they continue a push to find investors. With the second phase of Silverstone’s redevelopment – focused around the new £28 million ‘wing’ pits and paddock complex – now complete, attention is shifting to a wider update that will include hotels, a new kart track, music arenas, car showrooms and experience centres. The board of Silverstone Circuit hopes to approve the scheme at a meeting ahead of the British Grand Prix, before it is then sent to the local authorities over the next few weeks for approval.

Hill to step down as BRDC president

June 7th, 2011

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Hill to step down as BRDC president

Former world champion Damon Hill is to step down as President of the British Racing Drivers’ Club, after five years in the role. Having played a key part in helping secure the long-term future of the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, the track which is owned by the BRDC, Hill believes it is now time to step aside so he can focus more on his personal interests. He will officially relinquish his position at the club’s Annual General Meeting on August 25.

Gavin creates his own marathon

March 25th, 2011

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Gavin creates his own marathon

Oliver Gavin will run a marathon of his own in Long Beach as he cannot take part in this year’s London Marathon due to the clashing American Le Mans Series race on the Californian street track. The Corvette racer was the best-placed of the group of British Racing Drivers’ Club drivers who contested last year’s London Marathon in aid of CLIC Sargent children’s cancer charity.

Silverstone seeking new investors

February 10th, 2011

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Silverstone seeking new investors

Silverstone’s owner, the British Racing Drivers’ Club (BRDC), is on the look out for investors to help it realise the full potential of the track amid its current redevelopment. With the new pit and paddock complex due to be finished in the next few months, the BRDC is hoping to find backers to invest in further facilities at the venue.

Gregor Grant Award: Jackie Stewart

December 5th, 2010

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Gregor Grant Award: Jackie Stewart

Sir Jackie Stewart is the recipient of a Gregor Grant Award at the AUTOSPORT Awards in recognition of his lifetime achievements in motorsport. The three-time Formula 1 World Champion collected his award from another title winner, Damon Hill, the man who succeeded him as president of the British Racing Drivers’ Club. “I knew Gregor, another Scot and a great storyteller,well, so to get this award is an honour,” said Stewart

Hill: Ferrari shouldn’t get big penalty

September 8th, 2010

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Hill: Ferrari shouldn’t get big penalty

Former world champion Damon Hill hopes that the FIA World Motor Sport Council refrains from giving Ferrari a hefty penalty for its alleged use of team orders in the German Grand Prix when the governing body considers the matter today. Ferrari was fined $100,000 by the Hockenheim stewards, who adjudged that article 39.1 – the rule prohibiting team orders – had been breached when Felipe Massa slowed to allow Fernando Alonso to take the lead, having been informed over the radio that his team-mate was faster than him.

BRDC open to Silverstone investors

August 25th, 2009

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Silverstone has opened the door on future commercial investment that could help it get the British Grand Prix back, following a meeting of its owners at the track on Tuesday. The British Racing’s Drivers’ Club has owned Silverstone since 1971 and today it agreed to grant its Board the powers to approve offers of investment in the track and its surrounding land. The only proviso on taking such investment is that it is beneficial to both motor sport and the club.