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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.

Maldonado banking on Monaco expertise

May 21st, 2013

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Maldonado banking on Monaco expertise

Pastor Maldonado is hopeful his Monaco expertise will allow him to score the Williams team’s first points of the season in Sunday’s race. The Venezuelan has a good record at Monaco, with wins in both Formula Renault 3.5 and GP2 as well as a sensational run to sixth place in his first F1 appearance before being taken out by Lewis Hamilton.

Spain practice quotes: Force India

May 10th, 2013

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Paul di Resta – 10th/10th: “It was difficult to learn a massive amount today with the wet conditions this morning and our limited running. We had some new parts and both cars were slightly different to allow us to evaluate as much as possible. We will decide tonight the best overall package to carry forward

Button: revised McLaren visibly different

May 9th, 2013

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Button: revised McLaren visibly different

Jenson Button has revealed the McLaren MP4-28 will look very different when the upgraded car hits the track during practice for the Spanish Grand Prix. After struggling in the first four races of the year, McLaren will trial the first phase of a major series of upgrades in free practice at Barcelona, with further packages scheduled for introduction in the following races. The 2009 world champion said that the changes will be obvious to the naked eye, although does not expect the new parts to transform the McLaren into a race-winning machine yet

Bahrain qualifying quotes: Williams

April 20th, 2013

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Valtteri Bottas – 15th: “I had a bit of traffic in Q1 so I was quite lucky to get through given that one or two tenths can be the difference between progressing to Q2 or not. I put a good lap together in Q2, the best lap I’ve driven here this weekend, so I’m pleased about that

Button: don’t expect strategy miracle

April 20th, 2013

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Button: don’t expect strategy miracle

Jenson Button does not believe McLaren can repeat the strategic race that landed him a top five finish in China in Sunday’s Bahrain Grand Prix. The McLaren driver was delighted to make the cut for Q3 in Bahrain, and he then opted not to set a time to give him free tyre choice for the start of the race.

Marquez: Austin test form no guarantee

April 16th, 2013

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Marquez: Austin test form no guarantee

Marc Marquez says his Austin test pace is no guarantee of success MotoGP’s Grand Prix of the Americas this weekend.

Riders welcome new qualifying format

April 12th, 2013

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Riders welcome new qualifying format

MotoGP riders believe the revised qualifying format has introduced a new tactical element and increased the chances of upsets.

Analysis: Inside Kubica’s Citroen

April 12th, 2013

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Analysis: Inside Kubica’s Citroen

Robert Kubica has been a dominant leader on most rally outings so far – including his spectacular European Rally Championship debut last month – but that will not be the case when he joins the World Rally Championship in Portugal this weekend. The 2008 Canadian Grand Prix winner will be competing in the secondary WRC2 category in a car no match for the top-class World Rally cars. In an exclusive analysis for AUTOSPORT, Citroen technical director Xavier Mestelan-Pinon explains the differences between Kubica’s DS3 RRC and the DS3 WRC that will be fighting for outright victory in Faro with Mikko Hirvonen and Dani Sordo.

Malaysia qualifying quotes: Toro Rosso

March 23rd, 2013

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Daniel Ricciardo – 13th: “Coming into qualifying today, if I’d been told I could sign on the dotted line for thirteenth, I’d have taken it. It’s a decent result and we haven’t been that far up the time sheets all weekend in practice. Looking at it that way, thirteenth is quite good, but in Q1, we were quite competitive and only one hundredth of a second from the top ten

Malaysia practice quotes: Ferrari

March 22nd, 2013

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Fernando Alonso – 4th/4th: “Today, the car worked well in all conditions and that is very good news for us. This circuit is more representative than Australia for evaluating the car’s performance and so it was important to understand here today if the positive feelings from the winter were not just an illusion. On my lap on the Medium tyres, I did not have the right balance, otherwise I could have managed to improve, as I did on the Hards and I could probably have been on the “front row.” Now we must see how tomorrow goes, when it could rain at any moment and on a track where tyre degradation is much higher than in Melbourne

Massa ’10 times better’ than 2012

March 20th, 2013

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Massa ’10 times better’ than 2012

Felipe Massa says that he has started the 2013 season “10 times better” than the form he had one year ago. After outqualifying team-mate Fernando Alonso for the third event running in Australia, and only losing out to him on strategy in the race , Massa is delighted with his return to form. When asked about how he felt compared to 12 months ago, Massa said: “10 times better

Webber aims to rediscover consistency

March 13th, 2013

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Webber aims to rediscover consistency

Mark Webber believes rediscovering his consistency is key to his title hopes this year. Keen to get back to the form that helped him take the title fight all the way to the final round in 2010, Webber thinks that he and his team must eradicate the kind of troubled spell they endured at the end of last year.

Ogier believes Citroen is missing Loeb

March 13th, 2013

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Ogier believes Citroen is missing Loeb

Rally Mexico winner Sebastien Ogier says Citroen’s performance last week highlights how much the champion team is missing Sebastien Loeb. Loeb will only contest four rounds of this year’s series – and last week’s Leon- based event was the first event the nine-time champion missed

Vergne hails impact of updates

February 28th, 2013

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Vergne hails impact of updates

Jean-Eric Vergne believes Toro Rosso has made significant progress after introducing new updates at Formula 1′s final winter test. The Faenza-based squad introduced the tweaks on the first day at Barcelona and, despite the poor weather conditions, the Frenchman said he could immediately feel the difference. Vergne completed 59 laps on his way to the third quickest time of the day.

Bottas ‘smiling’ after first FW35 run

February 20th, 2013

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Bottas ‘smiling’ after first FW35 run

Valtteri Bottas has highlighted improvements at the rear end of the new Williams FW35 as the most significant step forward the team has taken with its new car. The Formula 1 rookie got his first taste of the new car at Barcelona on Wednesday, after team-mate Pastor Maldonado had been very impressed by the car on day one. Bottas was just as positive about the new car, and he believes that the main improvements are with the handling at the rear end.

Ezpeleta keen to see top riders on CRTs

January 19th, 2013

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Ezpeleta keen to see top riders on CRTs

MotoGP chief Carmelo Ezpeleta suspects CRT bikes would be much closer to prototype pace if some leading riders tried the second-class bikes. There was a clear gap between the pace of the two motorcycle types during the 2012 season, although Aspar’s Aleix Espargaro led the wet finale at Valencia , where Gresini’s CRT rider Michele Pirro claimed a class-record fifth place

Parr urges fans to demand more of F1

January 12th, 2013

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Parr urges fans to demand more of F1

Formula 1 should do much more to bring fans closer to the sport, reckons former Williams chairman Adam Parr.

KX Akademy reveals driver line-up

January 10th, 2013

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KX Akademy reveals driver line-up

The KX Akademy has revealed its driver line-up for 2013 on the opening day of this year’s AUTOSPORT International.

Maldonado: Consistency key for Williams

November 28th, 2012

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Maldonado: Consistency key for Williams

Pastor Maldonado believes Williams’s main goal for the 2013 season should be to be more consistent than it was during 2012. The Grove team bounced back from its worst campaign in 2011, where it scored just five points , with a promising start to the year which included victory in the Spanish Grand Prix in May.

Backmarker problems predicted in USGP

November 18th, 2012

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Backmarker problems predicted in USGP

Teams predict that backmarkers will play a key part in the United States Grand Prix, with the high-speed section from Turns 3 to 9 allowing little room to overtake. Several times during practice, faster cars became caught behind slower traffic in this section, with Sergio Perez hitting Charles Pic at Turn 7 on Saturday morning. Pedro de la Rosa, whose HRT was almost 5.5 seconds off Sebastian Vettel’s pole position time in qualifying, believes that the speed differential will be difficult to manage in that section of the track.