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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.

Busch brothers fill Texas front row

April 13th, 2013

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Kyle Busch denied his brother Kurt a first pole in two years as he snatched the top spot late in NASCAR Sprint Cup qualifying at Texas Motor Speedway. The Joe Gibbs Toyota driver’s pole lap of 27.509 seconds was a new record for the track.

Johnson claims eighth Martinsville win

April 7th, 2013

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Johnson claims eighth Martinsville win

Jimmie Johnson kept his nose clean in a fractious race to claim his eighth NASCAR Sprint Cup win at Martinsville. Johnson and his Hendrick Motorsport team-mates Jeff Gordon and Kasey Kahne spent the whole race battling with the Joe Gibbs cars of Kyle Busch and Matt Kenseth, but in the end it was Johnson who took the chequer for the 62nd time in his career. Clint Bowyer brought his battle-scarred Toyota home second after a strong finish, just ahead of Gordon.

Earnhardt thriving under the radar

April 4th, 2013

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Earnhardt thriving under the radar

NASCAR Sprint Cup points leader Dale Earnhardt Jr believes his good start to 2013 is due in part to controversies elsewhere deflecting attenton from him. Earnhardt sits just ahead of reigning champion Brad Keselowski in the standings. Yet the media spotlight has generally been aimed elsewhere, with the likes of Danica Patrick , the feud between Denny Hamlin and Joey Logano, and Hamlin’s recent accident dominating the headlines.

Edwards ends victory drought

March 3rd, 2013

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Edwards ends victory drought

Carl Edwards ended a barren run stretching back to March 2011 by winning the season’s second NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Phoenix. Edwards beat erstwhile leader Dale Earnhardt Jr out of the pits in the final stops, then nursed his fuel load to the finish to win for the first time since Las Vegas two years and 70 races ago. Going into the closing laps, the Roush Fenway Ford had Jimmie Johnson’s Hendrick Chevrolet and Brad Keselowski’s Penske Ford hunting it down as the entire field tried to save fuel.

Now Available: Generation-6 Chevrolet SS

by David Phillips on February 26th, 2013

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sim racing

You watched Jimmie, Dale and Danica race it in Sunday’s Daytona 500, now you can have your very own Generation-6 Chevrolet SS.  The Gen-6 Chevy SS is available on iRacing for $11.95, just in time to start preparing for the new NASCAR iRacing Series.  Think of it as iRacing’s version of “Win on Sunday, Sell on Tuesday.”  Click here for complete details.

Patrick thinks inexperience cost her

February 25th, 2013

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Patrick thinks inexperience cost her

Danica Patrick believes her inexperience of NASCAR Sprint Cup pack racing cost her a chance of victory in the Daytona 500. After securing an historic pole , Patrick spent much of the race running in the top three, along the way becoming the first woman to lead NASCAR’s premier event.

Johnson beats Earnhardt at Daytona

February 24th, 2013

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Johnson beats Earnhardt at Daytona

Jimmie Johnson ended his run of poor Daytona 500 results by holding off Hendrick Chevrolet team-mate Dale Earnhardt Jr to win NASCAR’s premier race for the second time.

Daytona 500 to go ahead as planned

February 24th, 2013

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Daytona 500 to go ahead as planned

Sunday’s 55th running of the Daytona 500, American racing’s biggest stock car event, will go ahead despite 28 fans being injured in a violent crash at the end of Saturday’s NASCAR Nationwide Series event. A section of debris fencing near the start/finish line was torn down in the last-lap crash, and a wheel flew over the fencing, resulting in 14 fans requiring hospital treatment with two of them reportedly suffering critical injuries – one of them life-threatening. The remaining 14 were treated at on-site medical facilities

Patrick backed to race at the front

February 22nd, 2013

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Patrick backed to race at the front

Danica Patrick’s crew chief believes the Daytona 500 pole-sitter will be quick enough to race at the front of the NASCAR season-opener, following her low-key performance in her Duel race on Thursday. Patrick finished 17th out of 21 finishers in her Duel, as she took a cautious approach to protect her car while everyone else was racing for their starting positions in Sunday’s race. Her crew chief Tony Gibson said after qualifying last weekend that he wanted Patrick to race hard to learn about the car for the 500, but he conceded that it was more important to get to the main race without any damage.

Stewart warns over Patrick pressure

February 18th, 2013

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Stewart warns over Patrick pressure

Danica Patrick’s team boss Tony Stewart has warned that her historic pole position for the Daytona 500 should not increase expectations for Patrick’s first full NASCAR Sprint Cup season. Stewart-Haas Chevrolet driver Patrick became the first female polesitter in Cup and Daytona 500 history when she held off four-time champion Jeff Gordon to secure the top spot on Sunday. Patrick has been under intense media scrutiny throughout her top-level career

Patrick fastest in Daytona practice

February 16th, 2013

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Patrick fastest in Daytona practice

Danica Patrick lived up to her prediction that she could challenge for Daytona 500 pole by leading Saturday’s practice sessions. The two sessions were the first time that the full 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup field had been on track together, following Friday’s running for the 19 drivers eligible for the Sprint Unlimited exhibition race. With drivers focusing on qualifying set-ups ahead of Sunday’s Daytona 500 front row-deciding session, Saturday featured single-car runs rather than pack drafting

Patrick aiming for Daytona pole

January 22nd, 2013

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Patrick aiming for Daytona pole

Danica Patrick is confident she can challenge for pole position for the Daytona 500 given her strong testing form ahead of her first full NASCAR Sprint Cup season. Patrick was among the quickest in the group test at Daytona earlier this month in her Stewart Haas Chevrolet. “We all think that we maybe have a chance at the pole,” said Patrick, who took pole for last year’s Nationwide Series opener at Daytona

Almirola tops truncated test

January 19th, 2013

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Almirola tops truncated test

Richard Petty Ford driver Aric Almirola was quickest in the final pre-season NASCAR Sprint Cup group test at Charlotte on Friday. The test had been scheduled as two days of running, but persistent rain on Thursday and continued poor weather the following morning meant it was Friday lunchtime before cars actually hit the track.

Biffle tops final day of Daytona test

January 12th, 2013

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Biffle tops final day of Daytona test

Greg Biffle was quickest among those who stayed on for the final day of NASCAR Sprint Cup pre-season testing at Daytona on Saturday.

Waltrip joins Swan Racing for Daytona

January 10th, 2013

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Waltrip joins Swan Racing for Daytona

Two-time Daytona 500 winner Michael Waltrip has joined new NASCAR team Swan Racing for the Sprint Cup season opener. Swan revealed at the end of last year that it was starting up after buying the assets of Inception Racing. David Stremme will be the team’s full-time driver this year, but he will step aside to allow Waltrip to race the car at Daytona next month.

Harvick linked to Stewart-Haas move

November 9th, 2012

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Harvick linked to Stewart-Haas move

Kevin Harvick and Tony Stewart have remained tight-lipped over a report that Harvick will join the reigning NASCAR Sprint Cup champion’s Stewart-Haas team from 2014.

Smith to drive for Earnhardt’s team

October 25th, 2012

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Smith to drive for Earnhardt’s team

Regan Smith will drive a full season for JR Motorsports in the 2013 Nationwide Series, the team announced Wednesday. Smith will drive the #5 Chevrolet next year for Dale Earnhardt Jr’s outfit hoping to contend for the title in the second-tier series and will race for the team for the first time in this year’s season-finale at Homestead.

Kenseth wins eventful Kansas race

October 22nd, 2012

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Matt Kenseth claimed his third NASCAR Sprint Cup victory of the season in Sunday’s Chase round at Kansas, despite early contact with the wall.

Newman extends Stewart-Haas deal

September 7th, 2012

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Newman extends Stewart-Haas deal

Ryan Newman will remain at Stewart-Haas Racing for a fifth consecutive NASCAR Sprint Cup season, having agreed a one-year extension. The 34-year-old, who has been Tony Stewart’s team-mate since the squad’s debut season in 2009, will drive the #39 Chevrolet for at least one more year, despite his car still lacking a main sponsor for 2013.

Rain gives Mears Bristol pole

August 24th, 2012

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Rain gives Mears Bristol pole

Casey Mears will start Saturday night’s Bristol Cup race from pole position after qualifying was rained off on Friday afternoon.