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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.

Rossi hopes rally win a good omen

November 27th, 2012

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Rossi hopes rally win a good omen

Valentino Rossi hopes his victory in last weekend’s Monza Rally marks the start of an upsurge in his fortunes ahead of his return to the Yamaha MotoGP team. Driving a Ford Fiesta WRC, Rossi defeated former Le Mans driver Dindo Capello’s Citroen by 2.8 seconds after nine stages. Rossi had previously won the event in 2006 and ’07

McNish: Capello is ‘irreplaceable’

June 19th, 2012

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McNish: Capello is ‘irreplaceable’

Allan McNish reckons Dindo Capello will prove to be ‘irreplaceable’ in Audi’s #2 driver line-up as the Italian bowed out of his long Le Mans partnership with McNish and Tom Kristensen after last weekend’s race.

Capello relaxed about final Le Mans

June 15th, 2012

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Capello relaxed about final Le Mans

Dindo Capello reckons it will be the week after Le Mans before the fact that he has made his final appearance in the legendary race really hits him. The three-time winner of the 24 Hours is joining regular team-mates Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish in the #2 Audi for the final time this weekend. “At the moment, I do not think too much about that,” Capello told AUTOSPORT.

#2 Audi hopeful it can match pole pace

June 14th, 2012

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#2 Audi hopeful it can match pole pace

Tom Kristensen and Dindo Capello believe there is no reason why their #2 Audi cannot match the pace of its provisional pole-sitting sister e-tron in Thursday night’s second Le Mans 24 Hours qualifying session. In first qualifying on Wednesday evening Andre Lotterer put the #1 car on provisional pole by 1.083 seconds over the #2 Audi. Kristensen’s shot at pole in that car had been disrupted by traffic, while on later longer runs team-mate Allan McNish ran into grip issues.

McNish wary of Toyota threat

June 13th, 2012

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McNish wary of Toyota threat

Audi hybrid driver Allan McNish says he is wary of the threat Toyota poses in the Le Mans 24 Hours in spite of the fact that the Japanese manufacturer’s TS030 having not yet been raced. Toyota ran for the first time alongside rivals during the Le Mans test at the beginning of June and ended the day less than 1.5s off the pace of the three Audi R18s in front of it

Gene joins Audi as Le Mans reserve

April 17th, 2012

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Gene joins Audi as Le Mans reserve

Audi has signed Peugeot refugee Marc Gene as a reserve driver for the Le Mans 24 Hours. The 38-year-old Spaniard had been part of Peugeot’s Le Mans effort from its inception in 2007 to its abrupt cancellation at the end of 2011, taking victory at Le Mans along the way. In addition to being Audi’s standby for Le Mans, Gene will also race one of the team’s new R18 ultras in the Spa round of the World Endurance Championship in May, substituting for the Timo Bernhard, who is still not fully recovered from his Sebring testing crash

Duval joins Audi’s Le Mans line-up

February 29th, 2012

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Duval joins Audi’s Le Mans line-up

Frenchman Loic Duval has joined Audi’s 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours line-up. The winner of last year’s Sebring 12 Hours with ORECA’s semi-works Peugeot will share a conventional R18 ultra with Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas in the French classic. The 29-year-old’s programme also includes the FIA World Endurance Championship opener at Sebring later this month and the Spa 6 Hours in May.

Audi starts public tests of 2012 LMP1

December 17th, 2011

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Audi starts public tests of 2012 LMP1

Audi has begun the first public tests of its 2012 LMP1 car ahead of the new World Endurance Championship. The team did not reveal any details of the machine, the differences to 2011′s R18 or the car’s designation at this stage. After conducting initial tests in private, Audi is in action at Sebring, venue for the 2012 WEC opener in March, this weekend.

Peugeot leads early Petit testing

September 26th, 2011

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Peugeot had the early edge as testing for the 2011 Petit Le Mans began at Road Atlanta on Sunday. The four factory cars from leading contenders Peugeot and Audi were among the 23 crews that attended the first seven-hour test day, with #7 Peugeot drivers Sebastien Bourdais, Simon Pagenaud and Anthony Davidson setting the pace with a 1m08.291s.

McNish sure crash won’t affect race

June 10th, 2011

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McNish sure crash won’t affect race

Allan McNish is confident that the damage done to the #3 Audi R18 TDI during Tom Kristensen’s accident in the final stages of qualifying for the 2011 Le Mans 24 Hours will not have a negative impact on their race plans. The Scot, who shares the car with Kristensen and Dindo Capello – the same crew that won the event in 2008 – said that while there was significant damage to the left hand side of the car, the tub emerged unscathed.

Kristensen: Peugeot deserved win

May 7th, 2011

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Kristensen: Peugeot deserved win

Tom Kristensen believes that Peugeot deserved its Spa 1000km victory after the Audi legend could finish no higher than third on the debut of the new R18 TDI. Kristensen had been closing in on the second-placed 908 and was less than half a minute behind Nicolas Minassian with an hour to run

Audi frustrated by incidents

March 20th, 2011

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Audi frustrated by incidents

Audi is confident that its R15 TDI had the speed to win the Sebring 12 Hours but for the incidents that delayed both its cars. The #1 car of Mike Rockenfeller, Romain Dumas and Timo Bernhard suffered two punctures in close succession in the early hours, the first due to running over debris, and the second after bodywork rubbed on the tyre. Allan McNish, Dindo Capello and Tom Kristensen were fighting the Peugeots for victory until Marc Gene’s 908 collided with Capello, ending both cars’ shot at the win.

Peugeot satisfied with reliability

March 20th, 2011

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Peugeot satisfied with reliability

Peugeot team boss Olivier Quesnel said he was satisfied that the new 908s ran trouble-free in the Sebring 12 Hours, even though the race victory went to ORECA’s older-specification car.

Peugeot back on top at night

March 18th, 2011

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Peugeot back on top at night

Peugeot returned to the top in Thursday’s night practice session for the Sebring 12 Hours. After being quickest in the first official test at the start of the week, Peugeot had been slightly behind arch-rival Audi in all the following sessions, although the frontrunners’ pace never quite matched that set in the opening test. During the after-dark session, Peugeot showed its hand a little more, with Anthony Davidson leading the way in the #7 car on a 1m48.901s.

Peugeot leads close Sebring test

March 14th, 2011

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The new Peugeot 908 was quickest on a close-fought first official test day for this weekend’s Sebring 12 Hours. Only one of the latest generation Peugeots ran today, but the Franck Montagny/Stephane Sarrazin/Pedro Lamy car set the quickest time of the opening day in the morning session with a 1m47.678s. That beat Audi’s Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Mike Rockenfeller by 0.347 seconds, while the new LMP1 version of the HPD got off to an impressive start with David Brabham taking the car to third in only its second test.

Bonanomi to be Audi reserve

February 22nd, 2011

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Bonanomi to be Audi reserve

Former GP2 and Formula Renault 3.5 racer Marco Bonanomi will be reserve driver for Audi’s Le Mans programme this year. The 25-year-old Italian moved to sportscars last season and drove an Audi in the Italian GT championship

Audi rues bizarre balaclava problem

October 3rd, 2010

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Audi rues bizarre balaclava problem

Audi team-mates Dindo Capello and Allan McNish were left in a state of disbelief by the bizarre helmet issue that cost them any hope of victory in this weekend’s Petit Le Mans. Capello was leading the race when the lining of his helmet worked loose, dropping his balaclava in front of his eyes, making it impossible to see where he was going. This issue forced the team to make an unscheduled pitstop, which ended a great race-long dice for the lead with the two Peugeots

Peugeot takes Petit Le Mans one-two

October 3rd, 2010

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Peugeot takes Petit Le Mans one-two

Peugeot claimed an historic one-two in the 13th running of the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. Ultimately it was the quickest car in the race, the #08 Peugeot 908 of Stephane Sarrazin/Franck Montagny/Pedro Lamy that took the win, although it was only in the final two hours that the result was not in doubt. Up until then the Audi R15 of Allan McNish/Dindo Capello/Tom Kristensen had a very real chance of winning, while the second 908 of Anthony Davidson/Marc Gene/Alex Wurz was waiting in the wings on the lead lap

Kristensen Audi leads Petit at halfway

October 2nd, 2010

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Kristensen Audi leads Petit at halfway

The #7 Audi of Tom Kristensen holds a narrow lead as the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta enters its second half.

Peugeot Leads Friday Morning Practice

October 1st, 2010

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Peugeot Leads Friday Morning Practice

Peugeot again led practice for the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta Friday morning. (ALMS Photo) BRASELTON, Ga.