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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.

Paffett says yellow-flag rules wrong

May 21st, 2013

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Paffett says yellow-flag rules wrong

Gary Paffett believes the DTM’s yellow-flag rules are ‘wrong’, and need a serious revision before the next round at Spielberg. The HWA Mercedes driver finished third on the road at Brands Hatch last weekend, but was demoted to sixth after five seconds were added to his race time for a yellow-flag infringement. Paffett was deemed to have not slowed by the mandatory 0.5s in sector three of the Brands Indy circuit as he passed Edoardo Mortara’s stricken Audi at Clearways with 12 laps remaining.

Bouffier clinches Tour of Corsica win

May 18th, 2013

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Bouffier clinches Tour of Corsica win

Bryan Bouffier clinched another victory in a classic rally as he added a Tour of Corsica win to his 2011 Monte Carlo triumph.

Pickett defeats Rebellion at Laguna

May 12th, 2013

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Pickett defeats Rebellion at Laguna

Pickett HPD duo Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr came out on top in a race-long duel with Nick Heidfeld and Neel Jani’s Rebellion Lola-Toyota to win the four-hour American Le Mans Series event at Laguna Seca. The two cars swapped the lead both on track and in the pitlane numerous times during the race, but the crucial moment came when they made contact in the final hour.

DeltaWing coupe race debut delayed

April 12th, 2013

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DeltaWing coupe race debut delayed

The race debut of the new coupe version of the DeltaWing experimental prototype has been set back from next month’s Laguna Seca American Le Mans Series round. ALMS founder Don Panoz, who has taken full control of the DeltaWing project for this season, had wanted the new car to race at round three of the US series at the California track. The problems with the Mazda-based Elan engine, which has replaced last year’s Nissan powerplant, at the Sebring 12 Hours last month have forced the DeltaWing Racing Cars squad to refocus its programme

Walker gets Silverstone WEC ride

April 3rd, 2013

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Walker gets Silverstone WEC ride

European Le Mans Series GT class frontrunner James Walker will make his prototype debut with the Delta-ADR squad in the opening round of the World Endurance Championship at Silverstone. The Briton, who won GTE Pro three times in the ELMS with the JMW Ferrari team in 2011-12, will drive one of the Delta-ADR’s two LMP2 class ORECA-Nissan 03s alongside Antonio Pizzonia and Tor Graves. Walker, 29, told AUTOSPORT: “This came out of the blue, but I’m over the moon to get the chance in a prototype, especially at Silverstone.

Unified US series reveals new name

March 14th, 2013

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Unified US series reveals new name

United SportsCar Racing is the new brand name of the unified US series that will begin in 2014. The new name, which follows the merger of the Grand-Am and the American Le Mans Series for next season, was announced at a glitzy press conference at Sebring on Thursday, ahead of the opening ALMS round on Saturday. The full and exact name of the series has yet to be announced, however.

Delta-ADR expands to two cars for WEC

March 14th, 2013

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Delta-ADR expands to two cars for WEC

The British Delta-ADR squad is expanding to two cars for its attack on the LMP2 class of the World Endurance Championship after linking up with Russian entrant G-Drive Racing. Delta-ADR has taken over the ORECA-Nissan 03 run last year by the French Signatech squad and will field both its ORECAs with the branding of the Russian oil company. The move from Signatech follows a clash of branding; its Alpine-badged ORECA will carry Total backing at the Le Mans 24 Hours blue-riband round of the WEC

Revised DeltaWing makes test debut

March 8th, 2013

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Revised DeltaWing makes test debut

The new version of the experimental DeltaWing has successfully completed a shakedown test ahead of its debut in next weekend’s Sebring 12 Hours.

New tyres and livery for DeltaWing

March 4th, 2013

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New tyres and livery for DeltaWing

The latest version of the experimental DeltaWing racer will run on Bridgestone tyres, it has been confirmed less than two days before the car is due to test for the first time. The DeltaWing’s switch from Michelin to Bridgestone tyres has been an open secret for the past two weeks, but the move was finally made public today (Monday) at the same time as the car’s new livery was revealed. Two days of testing are scheduled at Road Atlanta on Wednesday and Thursday before the car is shipped to Sebring, scene of the American Le Mans Series opener on March 16

DeltaWing seats for Meyrick and Pla

March 1st, 2013

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DeltaWing seats for Meyrick and Pla

The revised DeltaWing experimental racer will be driven by Olivier Pla and Andy Meyrick at the Sebring 12 Hours later this month. Pla and Meyrick have been brought in to drive the lightweight Mazda-engined prototype, which will run in the LMP1 class this year, by the team manager of the new DeltaWing Racing Cars squad, David Price

DeltaWing led to Nissan Le Mans return

February 27th, 2013

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DeltaWing led to Nissan Le Mans return

Last year’s Nissan DeltaWing project proved crucial in the Japanese manufacturer’s decision to return to the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2014 with an experimental electric car. Nissan global motorsport director Darren Cox, the architect of the brand’s involvement with the DeltaWing, said that last year’s project was vital in proving the value of the ‘Garage 56′ grid spot reserved for cars showcasing environmentally-friendly technology. “This wouldn’t have happened without DeltaWing; we wouldn’t have had the confidence to go into this project and people wouldn’t have realised the value of ‘Garage 56′,” said Cox.

Nissan to build electric Le Mans car

February 26th, 2013

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Nissan to build electric Le Mans car

Nissan will contest the Le Mans 24 Hours in 2014 with an all-electric contender that will take the ‘Garage 56′ entry reserved for an experimental car. Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn announced that the company would be back at Le Mans next year with “a pioneering Nissan race car showcasing electric technology and with zero emissions”

Audi open to DP entry

January 31st, 2013

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Audi open to DP entry

Audi could enter the Daytona Prototype class or its successor once Grand-Am and the American Le Mans Series merge for 2014. The German manufacturer has admitted an interested in the category courtesy of its desire to race at the highest level in sportscars in the North America, one of its major sales markets

Delta-ADR returns to WEC for 2013

January 16th, 2013

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Delta-ADR returns to WEC for 2013

The newly-renamed Delta-ADR team that finished second in LMP2 in last year’s World Endurance Championship is returning to the series in 2013. Silverstone-based Delta-ADR submitted an entry for the WEC, which includes the Le Mans 24 Hours in June, ahead of Wednesday’s closing date.

Pioneering and Innovation: DeltaWing

December 2nd, 2012

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Pioneering and Innovation: DeltaWing

The Nissan DeltaWing has been honoured with a Pioneering and Innovation Award at this year’s AUTOSPORT Awards. Ben Bowlby’s radical lightweight design was originally conceived in 2009 as a concept for the new IndyCar chassis, but when that avenue closed Bowlby and Don Panoz won admission to compete in the 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours. Having been unveiled in 2010, the car made its track debut on March 1 in readiness for its full debut at Le Mans.

Marussia devastated to lose 10th

November 25th, 2012

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Marussia devastated to lose 10th

Marussia boss John Booth described losing 10th place in the Formula 1 constructors’ championship to Caterham in the Brazilian Grand Prix as a huge emotional blow for his team. Marussia had moved ahead of Caterham after Timo Glock finished 12th in the Singapore GP. A thrilling Interlagos race gave both teams the chance to get their best result of the year, and Caterham’s Vitaly Petrov passed Charles Pic for 12th position near the end of the race.

Brazil Sunday quotes: Marussia

November 25th, 2012

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Timo Glock – 16th: “There isn’t much we can say really; the result speaks for itself and we were just not lucky today. It is a crying shame for everyone associated with the Team as we have all worked so hard together to come this far. It’s so sad to lose 10th like this because we were right on it and we had everything lined up to stay ahead of the other guys.

DeltaWing suffers 7g crash

October 18th, 2012

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DeltaWing suffers 7g crash

Highcroft Racing is optimistic it can get the DeltaWing back on track on Thursday after the car sustained a 7g crash in a big crash during Wednesday’s practice for the Petit Le Mans event at Road Atlanta. Gunnar Jeannette’s Nissan-backed car rolled and crashed heavily against the wall after it was hit by a GTC class Porsche as he was trying to overtake ahead of the final corner. The car was heavily damaged, and although Jeannette was taken to the medical centre for checks, he was released with no injuries

DeltaWing ‘has single-seater future’

October 15th, 2012

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DeltaWing ‘has single-seater future’

Don Panoz believes the DeltaWing can still have a future in single-seater competition. The car was originally conceived as a replacement for last year’s IndyCar chassis , but after losing out to the Dallara DW12 found its way into competition via the Le Mans ‘Garage 56′ concept. Panoz reckons there could still be an appetite for the car, which has raced as the Nissan DeltaWing in sportscars this year, to be used in single-seaters.

DeltaWing cleared to race in ALMS

September 17th, 2012

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DeltaWing cleared to race in ALMS

The revolutionary DeltaWing sportscar that raced at this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours has been cleared to compete in next year’s American Le Mans Series and the new championship that will result from the merger of the ALMS and Grand-Am in 2014. The announcement on the future of the DeltaWing-Nissan DW, which achieves LMP2 levels of performance using only half the fuel, came at the same time that it was confirmed that the car would compete in the Petit Le Mans 1000-mile enduro at Road Atlanta , the final round of this year’s ALMS.