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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.

Franchitti on top as Honda steps up

May 16th, 2013

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Franchitti on top as Honda steps up

Dario Franchitti took Honda to the top of the timesheets at Indianapolis for the first time this month after setting the fastest time in the fifth day of practice at the Brickyard on Wednesday. The defending race winner’s 224.236mph lap came late in the day as drivers settled into small packs to evaluate their cars’ handling in traffic, but he also set the fastest non-towed lap of 218.789mph earlier on

Franchitti snatches Long Beach pole

April 20th, 2013

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Franchitti snatches Long Beach pole

Dario Franchitti will start Sunday’s IndyCar race at Long Beach from pole position after triumphing in a hard-fought qualifying session. Ganassi driver Franchitti, who came into the Long Beach weekend last in the points standings after two disastrous opening races, used his final flying lap to deliver a 1m07.2379s that improved the benchmark laid down by Ryan Hunter-Reay by 0.0555 seconds. Hunter-Reay’s time was still good enough to keep him on the front row for Andretti, although Penske’s Will Power was only a further 0.05s in arrears.

Franchitti, Montoya sign up for Daytona

December 18th, 2012

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Franchitti, Montoya sign up for Daytona

Ganassi IndyCar and NASCAR stars Dario Franchitti, Scott Dixon, Juan Pablo Montoya and Jamie McMurray will once again join the squad’s Daytona 24 Hours line-up. Former IndyCar champions Franchitti and Dixon join McMurray and BMW factory DTM and American Le Mans Series driver Joey Hand in the #02 Ganassi Riley-BMW. Montoya will team up with Ganassi’s multiple Grand-Am champions Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas plus IndyCar driver Charlie Kimball in the #01 entry.

Hunter-Reay fastest, Franchitti on pole

July 21st, 2012

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Hunter-Reay fastest, Franchitti on pole

Points leader Ryan Hunter-Reay set the quickest time in qualifying for this weekend’s IndyCar race at Edmonton, but the Andretti driver’s 10-place grid penalty for an unapproved engine change means that Dario Franchitti will start from pole position on Sunday. Despite a rain shower during the second qualifying segment, the track had dried sufficiently for all of the drivers who had made it to Q3 to head out on slicks, and the order changed constantly as conditions continued to improve

Franchitti tops tight final practice

July 21st, 2012

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Franchitti tops tight final practice

Dario Franchitti led Scott Dixon to a Ganassi one-two in the third IndyCar practice session at Edmonton. On a drying track, the name at the top of the timing screens changed constantly in the final few minutes before Franchitti made the spot his own with a 1m16.8904s, bettering Dixon’s time by 0.0263 seconds

Andretti: Hunter-Reay capable of title

July 10th, 2012

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Andretti: Hunter-Reay capable of title

IndyCar Series points leader Ryan Hunter-Reay just has to keep the same approach and he can earn his maiden title, reckons his team boss Michael Andretti. Andretti Autosport racer Hunter-Reay has now won the last three IndyCar rounds and opened up a 34-point lead over Penske’s Will Power, who took three victories earlier in the season.

Franchitti pips Power in pole battle

July 7th, 2012

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Franchitti pips Power in pole battle

Dario Franchitti produced a last-gasp effort to deny Will Power pole position in qualifying for this weekend’s IndyCar race on the Toronto street circuit. Power (Penske) had moved to the top of the screens with his last flying lap, but Ganassi driver Franchitti’s decision to stay out for one more stab at the top spot and was rewarded with a 59.3510s, putting him ahead of Power by just 0.02 seconds.

Franchitti leads first Toronto practice

July 6th, 2012

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Dario Franchitti opened this weekend’s IndyCar round in Toronto by heading a Ganassi one-two in the first practice session. Franchitti moved to the top of the screens with 25 minutes remaining in the session and his best time of 1m00.8972s was never bettered, although team-mate Scott Dixon fell just 0.0443 seconds short

IndyCar drivers back heat system

June 23rd, 2012

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IndyCar drivers back heat system

IndyCar drivers have given a cautious thumbs-up to the heat race qualifying system that was tried out for this weekend’s Iowa round. The grid for Saturday’s race was determined via three 30-lap heats around the 7/8th mile oval; the first two being to decide the starting order from the fifth row back, and the third to decide pole. Drivers were allocated into heats on the basis of their times in the second practice session

Franchitti lauds Texas aero decision

June 9th, 2012

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Franchitti lauds Texas aero decision

Dario Franchitti believes that IndyCar has hit upon a perfect compromise with the final aero tweak that was made for Saturday’s race at Texas Motor Speedway. The series has been working to cut down the potential for pack racing at the 1.5-mile oval to reduce the chance of an accident similar to that which claimed the life of Dan Wheldon at Las Vegas last year. IndyCar began the weekend by imposing a maximum rear wing angle of minus five degrees and, following consultation with drivers, also banned the use of gurney flaps on the rear wing.

DeltaWing: Potential still untapped

June 7th, 2012

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DeltaWing: Potential still untapped

Marino Franchitti reckons there is plenty of time still to come from the DeltaWing when the car attempts to qualify for the Le Mans 24 Hours next week, following a successful test at the La Sarthe last weekend. The Nissan-powered machine, which has been invited to compete in the race under the ACO’s ‘Garage 56′ rules for experimental machinery, ended the day 32nd fastest overall with its best time of 3m47.980s just two seconds shy of the target time it was set by the organisers

Franchitti frustrated with Carpenter

June 2nd, 2012

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Franchitti frustrated with Carpenter

Dario Franchitti hit out at owner-driver Ed Carpenter following a frustrating qualifying session for the Indianapolis 500 winner in Detroit.

Sato: No animosity with Franchitti

June 2nd, 2012

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Sato: No animosity with Franchitti

Takuma Sato says that there are no hard feelings between himself and Dario Franchitti about their final-lap crash while fighting for the lead in last weekend’s Indy 500.

Dixon, Kanaan say Sato too bold

May 29th, 2012

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Dixon, Kanaan say Sato too bold

Former IndyCar champions Scott Dixon and Tony Kanaan believe Takuma Sato was too bold in his attempt to pass Dario Franchitti for the Indianapolis 500 lead on the final lap of the race and will be ‘haunted’ by the error. Rahal Letterman Lanigan driver Sato dived to the inside of Franchitti’s Ganassi Dallara-Honda going into Turn 1 as they began lap 200 on Sunday, but the pair made contact and Sato spun into the wall. After Franchitti went on to secure his third win in IndyCar’s most famous event, Sato argued that the Scot had not given him sufficient room

Sato: Franchitti didn’t give me space

May 28th, 2012

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Sato: Franchitti didn’t give me space

Takuma Sato said Indy 500 winner Dario Franchitti did not give him enough space when the Japanese tried to pass him for the lead on the final lap of the race.

Franchitti lauds Honda’s fightback

May 28th, 2012

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Franchitti lauds Honda’s fightback

Indianapolis 500 winner Dario Franchitti has paid tribute to engine manufacturer Honda for the technical step that it was able to take between qualifying last week and Sunday’s race. Franchitti and Ganassi team-mate Scott Dixon qualified in the middle of the field on a grid where rival Chevrolet had locked out nine of the top 10 places. But the Scot, who became the 10th third-time winner of the race with his victory, said that he was surprised by the extent to which Honda had managed to turn things around.

Franchitti wins third Indy 500

May 27th, 2012

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Franchitti wins third Indy 500

Dario Franchitti came from the rear of the field to take the win in a dramatic Indy 500 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. The Scot spent the late laps trading the lead with Ganassi team-mate Scott Dixon, but Takuma Sato (Rahal Letterman Lanigan) managed to get between the pair with two laps to go and lined Franchitti up for a passing attempt. Sato managed to get alongside Franchitti in the first corner of the final lap, but did not allow himself enough space and bounced off the Ganassi car and into the wall, bringing out the yellows and allowing Franchitti an unchallenged run to the finish

Franchitti takes Carb Day honours

May 25th, 2012

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Franchitti takes Carb Day honours

Dario Franchitti has taken Carb Day honours at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, the Ganassi driver setting the fastest time in the final practice session before Sunday’s Indy 500. Franchitti topped the times with a 222.360mph lap (40.4749s) to put him just ahead of team-mate Scott Dixon (222.274mph). Marco Andretti (Andretti Autosport) was third-fastest with a 221.702mph effort “The car was good,” Franchitti said.

Power stretches winning streak

April 29th, 2012

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Power stretches winning streak

Will Power took his third IndyCar Series win in succession with his victory in a chaotic race around the streets of Sao Paulo. The Penske driver started from pole and looked in control for most of the afternoon, although he was forced to survive a number of restarts due to a string of accidents behind him.

Franchitti heads Power in practice two

April 28th, 2012

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Franchitti heads Power in practice two

Dario Franchitti turned the tables on Will Power as their battle continued in the second IndyCar practice session in Sao Paulo. Power (Penske) had knocked Franchitti (Ganassi) off the top spot right at the close in opening practice on Saturday morning, but it was the Scot who returned the favour in practice two, his last-gasp 1m22.2611s beating Power by 0.0816 seconds. Long-time pacesetter Ryan Hunter-Reay of Andretti Autosport was pushed back to third, with Franchitti’s team-mate Scott Dixon and Power’s team-mate Ryan Briscoe completing the top five.