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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.

Nash snatches first WTCC victory

May 19th, 2013

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Nash snatches first WTCC victory

James Nash claimed his breakthrough World Touring Car victory while Yvan Muller once again surged through the field to capture second in the Salzburgring finale. Nash, starting on reverse-grid pole, had initially lost out to Norbert Michelisz’s Zengo Honda on the run down to the first corner, but fought his way back immediately to regain the lead by the end of the first lap. The duo held position until the penultimate lap, when Michelisz was demoted by a charging Muller, who had started from 10th

Johnson secures fourth All-Star win

May 19th, 2013

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Johnson secures fourth All-Star win

Jimmie Johnson recovered from his qualifying mistakes to take the $1 million NASCAR Sprint Cup All-Star race for a second straight year and the fourth time in his career. Such a result looked unlikely when Johnson overshot the Hendrick pit and then received a penalty for a missing lugnut during Friday’s qualifying session .

McMurray dominates Showdown

May 19th, 2013

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Jamie McMurray and Ricky Stenhouse Jr secured spots in the NASCAR All-Star race with first and second places in the Showdown qualifying heat. McMurray dominated most of the 40-lap event

Power heads Chevrolet domination

May 18th, 2013

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Power heads Chevrolet domination

Will Power led a Chevrolet rout of the opening phase of qualifying for the Indianapolis 500, with rival Honda having been completely shut out of the Fast Nine pole shootout. The result echoes qualifying for last year’s race , when Josef Newgarden was the sole Honda runner to make it through to the Fast Nine phase In a session that began more than two hours late due to earlier rain, Penske driver Power opened his qualifying run with an extraordinary 229.442mph lap before settling down for an average of 228.844mph. Reigning IndyCar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay came closest to matching the Australian with an average of 228.282mph for Andretti Autosport.

Leaders bemused by WTCC qualifying

May 18th, 2013

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Leaders bemused by WTCC qualifying

Yvan Muller, Tom Chilton and Rob Huff were all left bemused by their rivals’ tactics as World Touring Car qualifying ended in laughable fashion at the Salzburgring. Muller was on provisional pole, with Chilton and Huff second and third, when the field – led by Chilton – headed out for one final flyer. With ample time on the board, drivers elected to fight for the perfect slipstream position, worth around four tenths of a second, behind Chilton.

Muller secures third pole of 2013

May 18th, 2013

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Muller secures third pole of 2013

Yvan Muller captured his third World Touring Car pole of 2013 in emphatic style at the Salzburgring. The Frenchman carried his practice form into the knockout session, and on fresh rubber – and with a tow from RML team-mate Tom Chilton – set a new record of 1m25.756s

Muller flies in opening practice

May 18th, 2013

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Muller flies in opening practice

Yvan Muller fired an early warning of intent by repeatedly dipping under lap record pace to top the opening World Touring Car practice at the Salzburgring.

Kenseth wins as Hamlin takes second

May 12th, 2013

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Kenseth wins as Hamlin takes second

Matt Kenseth claimed his third win of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season at Darlington, while his Joe Gibbs team-mate Denny Hamlin finished a superb second on his return after injury. The race looked like it would deliver an all-Gibbs top three, though, only for Kyle Busch to tumble back to sixth in the closing laps as his handling faded after what had been a dominant evening. The Busch brothers were the main protagonists in the early laps, as polesitter Kurt Busch kept his Furniture Row Chevrolet at the front for 69 laps before Kyle got through

Honda, Chevrolet on maximum weight

May 10th, 2013

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Honda, Chevrolet on maximum weight

Honda and Chevrolet will run with a maximum 40kg of compensation ballast in World Touring Car’s forthcoming round in Austria. Honda has taken pole position in two of the last three rounds courtesy of Gabriele Tarquini, while it also secured a podium lockout in the Slovakia Ring opener.

Lazier enters own car for Indy 500

May 9th, 2013

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Lazier enters own car for Indy 500

Buddy Lazier will attempt to qualify for this month’s Indianapolis 500 after finalising a deal to enter a self-run car. The 1996 Indy 500 winner and 2000 IRL IndyCar champion will drive the Chevrolet-powered #91 car for Lazier Partners Racing, which is owned by his father and former Indy 500 racer Bob Lazier

Muller says Tarquini crash inevitable

May 7th, 2013

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Muller says Tarquini crash inevitable

Yvan Muller insists he could do nothing to prevent Gabriele Tarquini’s head-on crash in the World Touring Car Hungaroring race. Tarquini spent the night in Budapest’s military hospital, suffering neck pains but no broken bones, after his heavy impact with the tyres on the outside of Turn 2.

Shedden wins after Plato puncture

May 5th, 2013

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Shedden wins after Plato puncture

Gordon Shedden won the final, reversed-grid, British Touring Car race at Thruxton after another late puncture for a leader, this time Jason Plato. The reigning champion started seventh and made up places as polesitter Jack Goff’s Vauxhall Insignia was bullied down the order and eventually off the track. Adam Morgan held the lead initially, but the Ciceley Toyota Avensis then went wide at Church and had to pit to have its radiator cleared.

Neal cruises to another Thruxton win

May 5th, 2013

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Neal cruises to another Thruxton win

Matt Neal made it a double with victory in the second British Touring Car race at Thruxton. The works Honda driver led from pole and coped with an early challenge from Jason Plato’s works MG and a safety car restart (due to Dan Welch crashing his Proton) to win. Plato struggled more and more as the race went on, making him vulnerable to attack.

Edwards on pole as rain hits qualifying

May 4th, 2013

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Edwards on pole as rain hits qualifying

Carl Edwards will start from NASCAR Sprint Cup pole at Talladega by virtue of his practice performance after rain forced the cancellation of Saturday’s qualifying session.

Jordan beats works Hondas to pole

May 4th, 2013

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Jordan beats works Hondas to pole

Andrew Jordan scored his second British Touring Car pole of the season at Thruxton as Honda Civics dominated qualifying. Gordon Shedden set the pace early on, with the help of a tow from works Honda team-mate Matt Neal.

Muller storms to Hungaroring pole

May 4th, 2013

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Muller storms to Hungaroring pole

Yvan Muller blazed to his 16th career World Touring Car pole with a record lap of the Hungaroring. The Frenchman banged in a 1m53.426s early in the final session and then simply watched as all his rivals fell well short of surpassing it.

Honda gets WTCC weight increase

April 30th, 2013

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Honda gets WTCC weight increase

Honda’s three World Touring Car Civics will be 30kg heavier at the forthcoming Hungarian round this weekend. The Japanese marque’s cars have earned extra ballast following a run of consecutive pole positions and a podium sweep in Slovakia.

Harvick denies Montoya at Richmond

April 28th, 2013

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Kevin Harvick sprinted around the outside of Richard Childress Racing team-mate Jeff Burton to claim victory in a green-white-chequered finish at Richmond.

Tarquini keeps Honda on top in practice

April 27th, 2013

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Tarquini keeps Honda on top in practice

Gabriele Tarquini kept Honda on top with a last-gasp effort in the second Slovakia Ring World Touring Car practice. The Italian had been down in ninth position heading into the final two minutes, his session compromised by an early off at Turn 13 which dragged gravel into the front of his car.

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.