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David Phillips
Editor and ChiefDavid 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 WriterChris 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 Writer19 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 WriterJason 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 WriterI 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 WriterI 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 WriterI 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 WriterNathan'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 WriterBorn 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 WriterJordan 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 WriterBorn 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 WriterKenneth 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 WriterI 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 WriterAfter 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.
Mustang Points Race Tightens at Summit Point
by Jeff Jacobs on June 12th, 2013
The season overall points standing grew even closer in Week 6 of the iRacing.com Mustang Cup, with several sim-racers taking advantage of crucial mid-season wins to reel-in leader Vedran Broz. This week featured 16 official racesat Summit Point’s short course – a first run on that configuration for the Mustangs. While the number of online races were far fewer than at Daytona the week before, 14 different winners took home top honors and points in their effort to climb the points standings. Out of the 144 sim-racers who tried the Mustang FR500S around the West Virginia track, Todd Honczarenko had the best results with two wins in two starts and the top points (120) earned for the week. Olivier Sackhouse was also perfect in two starts, claiming 115 points. Points [...]
Mustang Battle Heats-Up at Daytona
by Jeff Jacobs on June 4th, 2013
The club course at Sebring in Week 4 was just the appetizer for the main course – Daytona – in Week 5 of the iRacing.com Mustang Cup’s swing through Florida. Indeed Mustang sim-racers feasted on the fast road course at Daytona with 224 drivers taking the grid in at least one of the 31 official races this week. The door-to-door, bumper-to-bumper racing produced 19 different winners, giving several drivers an opportunity to close the gap on series point-leader Vedran Broz. Every race featured agonizingly close finishes throughout the field – nail the Bus Stop to get on the bumper of the car ahead of you and you’d have the other guy crying as you slipped by at the line. A late race on May 31st featured six cars running nose-to-bumper [...]
Historic Sebring Hosts Mustangs
by Jeff Jacobs on May 29th, 2013
Historic Sebring International Raceway was a World War II army airfield, but it was the sim-racers in the iRacing.com Mustang Cup who were flying around the track in Week 4 of Season 2. The shorter Club layout provided great bumper-to-bumper action in 14 official races producing nine different winners. Top performer again this week was Vedran Broz, who took home a perfect four wins in four starts. However, Broz did not post the top qualifying time of the week, with that honor going to Roope Turkkila. Among the most exciting racing of the week was the May 27th 18-car battle at 18:15pm GMT, won by Teemu Lappalainen. Although the winner led every lap, the fight for the remaining two podium stops was a game of inches between Tiago Carvalho2, Michael [...]
Get to Know . . . Derek Crone
by David Ifeguni on April 22nd, 2013
This week, I interviewed one of the lead drivers in the youth movement on iRacing.com. Born on March 19, 1996, this iRacer has worked his way from the very bottom to the very top, from hitting the curbs at Oxford Plains Speedway in the Legends car, to racing in the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship in his Gen6 Chevrolet SS: West Virginia’s Derek Crone. Derek has been racing on iRacing.com since December of 2010, and he has made a lot of noise in the 2 and a half years on the service. He has started 313 races on the oval side of iRacing, and has visited victory lane 40 times, with the majority of those wins coming in 2012. He has also scored 145 top fives and 65 poles in [...]
Mustang Intensity at Daytona
by Jeff Jacobs on April 16th, 2013
Eleven weeks of close racing reached a new high point at Daytona as the iRacing.com Mustang Cup drivers battled for every possible point. Something about racing at Daytona – the history, the high banking, the challenge of never quite mastering it – brings out the intensity in every sim-racer on the grid. Combine that intensity with a dozen or more pony cars in formation and there will be fireworks! Week 11 featured some incredible finishes demonstrating the competitiveness of this series. With 36 official races on the week, twelve of the races…that’s 33%…were decided by less than a half-second. Not impressed? How about seven races won by less than a tenth, six of those less than half-a-tenth! And for two of those races, the third place car was just thousands [...]
Oulton Park Thriller
by Jeff Jacobs on April 9th, 2013
In Week 10 at Oulton Park, the top sim-racers in this season’s iRacing.com Mustang Cup turned-up the heat on current points leader and last season’s champion, Dariusz Bielawski, who responded with a thrilling .263s margin of victory over Todd Honczarenko. Sunday’s race at 22:15 GMT opened with 18 Mustangs on the grid, with Bielawski out qualifying Honczarenko by just .003s. While Bielawski got the better start and opened with a sizable lead, Honczarenko worked back to the leader’s bumper by Lap Nine, got up on his side at times, and stayed within inches for the remaining four laps. A small slide in the final turn for Bielawski was not enough to open a door for Honczarenko, who finished on the leader’s tail behind after 25 minutes of racing. Repeating his [...]
Heated Points Battle Atop Mustang Cup
by Jeff Jacobs on March 26th, 2013
With the Mustangs running at a series-favorite Mid-Ohio in Week 8, the points battle heated-up at the top of the standings. Last season’s iRacing.com Mustang Cup champion, Dariusz Bielawski, has maintained the points the lead every week – with the exception of Week 3 when he temporarily surrendered the top spot to David L Brown. However, Brown disappeared from the standings as the season continued, leaving a question as to whether anyone had a shot at preventing the Champ from repeating. Week 8 answered that question, as it now appears a few other sim-racers are turning-in strong mid-season performances to challenge Bielawski for the lead. Cutting Bielawski’s advantage to just 12 points, Todd Honczarenko has charged from eighth after Week 1 to second place after Week 8. Jaroslaw Grochowski is [...]
Late Models Romp on the Beach
by Ray Kingsbury on March 22nd, 2013
Just miles away from the hallowed grounds of Daytona International Speedway lies an 0.48 mile (0.77 km) short track with four turns of 23 degrees of banking. This of course can be none other than New Smyrna Speedway located on New Smyrna Beach. Founded in 1964, New Smyrna was originally a clay-based short track, but just a few years later it was paved over. More recently the track has been repaved and now many top tier NASCAR teams use it for testing. With various series held here weekly, it would only be natural that iRacing.com’s Chevy Late Model could take it on too. So, this was the stomping ground for the NASCAR iRacing.com Late Model Series for Week Seven of the 12 week tour. In this week’s 3470 Strength of [...]
Get to Know: Adam Gilliland
by David Ifeguni on March 18th, 2013
If you didn’t recognize the name Adam Gilliland, you probably do now after watching the season opener of the 2013 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship last Tuesday. In his first race of the season, he scored the biggest win in his sim-racing career in a close finish against NiPS runner-up Jared Crawford at Daytona International Speedway. Looking back, in the first season of 2012 NASCAR iRacing.com Class A Series, Adam finished fourth in the overall points standings to secure his spot in the NASCAR iRacing.com Pro Series, where he finished sixth in the points standings. He scored one top five all season and that was a victory at Richmond, which propelled him to a sixth place finish in the points and a ticket to the NiSWC. Since joining the service [...]
NASCAR iRacing National Series Tackles Charlotte
by Raymond Kingsbury on March 13th, 2013
The NASCAR iRacing.com National Series regulars took their Chevrolet Impala SS to Charlotte Motor Speedway last week. Operated by Bruton Smith , Charlotte has been one of NASCAR’s premiere tracks since opening its gates in 1960. Vying with Daytona International Speedway as the “home of NASCAR,” CMS is one of the most prestigious tracks on the calendar; one that requires sim-racers to push their cars to the limit and dodge high speed crashes that are — inevitably — thrown their way. This week saw Western Canada’s Austin Ognoski top the NiNS points-earners with 172 points his name at Charlotte. Ognoski beat-out Josh Fox (155 points), while Jordan Werth third on the week with 154 championship points, a total matched by Chris Melvin, while Tyler Head (148 points) rounded-out the top [...]
Gilliland’s Last Lap Dash Beats Crawford in NiSWC Opener
by Jason Lofing on March 13th, 2013
Adam Gilliland held-off Jared Crawford in a door-to-door battle to the checkered flag as the field wrecked behind them to win the season opener of the 2013 NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship at Daytona International Speedway. The win is Gilliland’s first victory in just five career NiSWC starts. “I had an amazing car in both qualifying trim and race trim. I can’t thank (teammates) Matt Whitten and John Ritchey enough,” said Gilliland. The series debut of the Gen-6 Chevrolet SS and Ford Fusion came down to a one lap shootout with Gilliland on the inside line being pushed by Tyler Hudson and Crawford on the outside pushed by Brad Davies. Gilliland looked to be the odd man out against teammates Crawford and Hudson after losing his teammate Whitten to an [...]
Luza’s Week in the Sun
by Chris Owens on March 11th, 2013
Week Five of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series found its way to the Valley of the Sun and Phoenix International Raceway in Avondale, Arizona. 95 laps would be the task for each driver to see who could master the mile flat track in the Arizona desert. Following last week’s events at the Daytona International Speedway, teams and drivers were ready to move away from the restrictor plate racing and see who had the best setup and skill to claim the victory. 550 sim-racers took to the track for the fifth week of the season. Ryan Luza would claim the most points for the week (332) during the Strength of Field (SOF) event on Friday night. Luza bested Clayton Celovsky in the 5225-rated field, leading 85 of the 95 laps. [...]
Get to Know: Jason Karlavige
by David Ifeguni on March 11th, 2013
Jason Karlavige, the 22 year from Pennsylvanian joined the iRacing.com service back in August of 2009. Like any oval iRacer, he started in the Legends car at tracks like Lanier National Speedway, and has since moved-up to running — and winning — in the Nationwide cars the Generation 5 Cup cars and the newly released Generation 6 Chevrolet SS. Over the course of the next several months, he will be wheeling his Obutto Gaming Cockpits Chevy SS in the NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship, driving for Wheelman Incorporated. You can watch him in the first race of the season Tuesday night (9 pm eastern time) on iRacing Live at Daytona International Speedway for 100 laps around the famed oval. In this week’s edition of Get to know, I get to [...]
NiSWC Welcomes New Car, Drivers
by Jason Lofing on March 11th, 2013
The NASCAR iRacing.com Series World Championship kicks off its fourth season Tuesday night at 9 pm eastern time with a brand new race car and 50 drivers ready to compete for the $10,500 championship prize. NASCAR’s new Generation 6 car makes its series debut Tuesday at Daytona as 49 drivers try to dethrone two-time defending champion Ray Alfalla. Also new for 2013 is a partnership with the Motor Racing Network (MRN). Famous for their superior radio coverage of NASCAR, MRN.com will be streaming live coverage of all 18 NiSWC races in 2013, complimenting the now-traditional broadcast coverage on iRacing Live. The biggest change going into the 2013 season is the new car. Unlike in previous seasons where the car has only undergone minor changes, the Gen 6 car will throw [...]
Miller Tops Class B Daytona
by Chris Owens on March 4th, 2013
Week Four of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series took sim-racers to the high banks of the Daytona International Speedway. To be successful at Daytona, drivers needed to find the right partner to make their way to the front of the field . . . and stay there . . . risking everything to be called a winner at Daytona. With most of the regular drivers taking the week off at the restrictor plate track, a whole new crop of drivers had a chance to lay their claim to fame. Ashley Miller (Carolina) would collected 306 total points for the week, the most of the 1,358 sim racers who took to the track. Tom Moustakas (New York) with 296 starts would come home second in points for the week ahead [...]
Burmeister, Eszenyi Top iRacing Daytona 500
by David Phillips on February 25th, 2013
Benjamin Burmeister (DE-AT-CH) and Steve Eszenyi (Connecticut) were the big winners in last weekend’s iRacing Daytona 500, the third event in the 2013 World Tour of iRacing. Eszenyi took the win over Derek Crone (Virginias) and Dwayne Vincent (MidSouth) in Friday evening’s top SOF (5435) split, while Burmeister scored a dramatic last lap victory – passing Kenny Humpe and winning a photo finish with Nicholas Morse – to snatch the laurels in Saturday’s top SOF (5484) split. With Eszenyi finishing a disappointing P36 on Saturday, overall honors went to Burmeister. The “twin 500s” totaled 77 splits in all, with 40 races of 42 or 43 starters on Friday and 37 more on Saturday. All told nearly 2700 iRacers participated in the events (2699 to be precise!), with 556 taking the [...]
Cater the Magician
by Chris Owens on February 22nd, 2013
Week Three of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class B Series found the series in the northeast at the “Magic Mile,” aka New Hampshire Motor Speedway. A flat, one mile track that provides a lot of action, NHMS has been a stop on the Class B Series since its introduction in to the iRacing.com service. David Cater worked his brand of magic to best 465 sim-racers in overall points for the week, taking home 302 points in two starts. Cater would win both his starts, with his points coming from the Friday night Strength of Field event. 30 sim-racers went to battle on the Granite State’s one mile oval for 90 laps. Although Ryan Luza dominated the early portion of the online race, he ran into trouble with less than twenty laps [...]
Jarrell & Luza Top Richmond
by Jordan Hightower on February 20th, 2013
Week Three of the NASCAR iRacing.com Class C Series (fixed setup) goes deep into NASCAR country with a trip to Richmond International Raceway. In many sports, playing at home is usually a great advantage. This proved true in the sim-racing world as well. This week, a local Virginian earned the most championship points while an out-of-towner from Texas took the checkered flag in the high Strength of Field event. Ryan Luza (Texas) was able to win the week’s high Strength of Field event in dominating fashion, leading 42 of the race’s 50 laps en route to a 0.554 second margin of victory over Matthew Wright2 (New York). Brenden Koehler (Pennsylvania) finished in the third position after starting 13th and avoiding carnage. Jim Caudill Jr (Mid-South) came home in the fourth [...]
2013 World Tour of iRacing: Daytona 500
by David Phillips on February 19th, 2013
Round Three of the 2013 World Tour of iRacing – the Daytona 500 – is slated for Friday, February 22 at 9 PM Eastern (02:00 GMT Saturday, February 23) and Saturday, February 23 at 2 PM Eastern (19:00 GMT). The open set-up event features the Class A Chevrolet Impala for 200 laps of the Daytona International Speedway (daytime). Practice and qualifying begin on Tuesday, February 18 and will be open all week prior to the online race, with qualifying sessions consisting of two green flag laps starting every hour at 45 minutes past the hour minutes. Race splits will be set by iRating, order on the grid will be based on qualifying time. There will be 43 cars per split with full course cautions, and the top split will be [...]