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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.

Ferrari wary of qualifying focus

May 13th, 2013

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Ferrari wary of qualifying focus

Ferrari says its quest to improve qualifying form must not come at the expense of its race-day performance that has proved so crucial this season.

Spain qualifying quotes: Sauber

May 11th, 2013

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Nico Hulkenberg – 15th: “Qualifying went according to plan today. It is disappointing, as we are simply too slow

Marussia signs Gonzalez as reserve

March 14th, 2013

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Marussia signs Gonzalez as reserve

Marussia has recruited Rodolfo Gonzalez as its reserve driver for the 2013 Formula 1 season. Gonzalez will drive in a number of Friday practice sessions at grands prix as part of his deal

Mercedes right where Hamilton expected

February 8th, 2013

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Mercedes right where Hamilton expected

Lewis Hamilton says Mercedes is exactly where he had hoped it would be right now, after getting his first proper experience of the new W04. After his first day of action at Jerez on Tuesday was cut short by a crash caused by brake failure, Hamilton was finally able to put together a proper evaluation programme on Thursday. And although Hamilton did not shy away from the fact that his team will need to improve the car’s speed if it is to challenge at the front, he said that its performance was realistically the best he could hope for

Ricciardo braced for crucial season

December 30th, 2012

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Ricciardo braced for crucial season

Daniel Ricciardo says next season will be a crucial one for his career as he bids to prove he has what it takes to land a Red Bull seat for 2014. The Australian will be starting his second full campaign with Scuderia Toro Rosso and will go up against team-mate Jean-Eric Vergne once again. With Red Bull’s bosses eager to find out if either of the youngsters has what it takes to deserve a seat at its main team, the Australian is not hiding away from the fact that there is now pressure to deliver.

Rossi, Lorenzo ‘will not stay friends’

December 23rd, 2012

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Rossi, Lorenzo ‘will not stay friends’

Motorcycle racing legend Giacomo Agostini believes it is inevitable that Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi will renew hostilities over the course of the 2013 MotoGP season. The 15-time world champion paralleled the pair’s relationship as team-mates to his own experiences with the likes of Mike Hailwood and Phil Read, saying it would be ‘impossible’ for them to remain amicable for the entire season. Ex-Yamaha boss Masao Furusawa recently warned the pair’s renewed relationship could be unmanageable , although Lorenzo insisted that there would be no repeat of the wall which divided the Yamaha garage in 2010

Sauber ‘needs to score with both cars’

October 29th, 2012

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Sauber ‘needs to score with both cars’

Sauber reckons it will need both of its cars scoring points if it is going to have a realistic chance of catching Mercedes in the constructors’ championship.

Hamilton: no gamble in Mercedes move

October 4th, 2012

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Hamilton: no gamble in Mercedes move

Lewis Hamilton does not believe he is taking a gamble in moving to Mercedes next season. In the wake of his surprise decision to leave McLaren at the end of this year for an outfit that has won just one race in three years, Hamilton has no doubts he has done the right thing for his career.

Rivals sympathise with Sorensen

August 27th, 2012

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Rivals sympathise with Sorensen

The top three drivers in the Formula Renault 3.5 championship have expressed their sympathy towards Marco Sorensen after the Dane was robbed of victory at Silverstone by a late-race puncture. Lotus driver Sorensen had dominated the second race of the weekend, leading throughout until a puncture forced him to retire with a lap and a half to go

De Villota still critical but stable

July 5th, 2012

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De Villota still critical but stable

Maria de Villota remains in critical but stable condition two days after her dramatic accident, her family said on Thursday. In a statement issued by the Marussia team in behalf of her sister Isabel, the family said it took some encouragement from the fact that de Villota remained stable after Wednesday’s surgery

McLaren: No rush on Hamilton future

June 7th, 2012

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McLaren: No rush on Hamilton future

McLaren says there is ‘plenty of time’ to sort out future of 2008 world champion Lewis Hamilton, whose contract with the British squad is set to expire at the end of the current Formula 1 season. Hamilton has been part of the McLaren stable since 1998 and has spent his five-year F1 career with the team, but speculation has mounted that he could leave the team for Red Bull, Ferrari or Mercedes. McLaren managing director Jonathan Neale said during a Vodafone phone-in that the team was keen to retain the Briton, but insisted there was no rush on a new deal.

Boullier: No tests contributing to show

May 31st, 2012

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Boullier: No tests contributing to show

Lotus team boss Eric Boullier believes that the lack of testing in Formula 1 is a part of what is making the races so unpredictable this year. The 2012 season has generated a record six different winners in the first six races, making it one of the sport’s most exciting starts to a campaign in recent years. Although the new Pirelli tyres have been highlighted as the main reason for the unpredictability, Boullier believes that the fact that teams cannot test their updates before the race weekends is a big contributing factor

Hamilton says balance will be key

March 23rd, 2012

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Hamilton says balance will be key

Lewis Hamilton says finding a set-up balance which suits both qualifying and the race will be key to his fortunes in the Malaysian Grand Prix. After going fastest in both practice sessions, the 2008 world champion said he was already happy with the feel of his car on short runs

Latvala says rock impossible to miss

March 9th, 2012

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Latvala says rock impossible to miss

Jari-Matti Latvala said there was no way he could have avoided the rock that caused the suspension damage which cost him the Rally Mexico lead. Broken front suspension dropped the Ford driver from first to eighth on the final stage of the morning loop in Mexico today. “It was in a really fast section of the last stage,” Latvala told AUTOSPORT.

Marussia passes final crash test

March 6th, 2012

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Marussia passes final crash test

Marussia has announced that it has passed the final FIA crash test, clearing its MR01 to race in the Formula 1 season-opening Australian Grand Prix in just under a fortnight. The team had failed the last of the 18 mandatory crash tests required before it could start testing, meaning its only pre-season running came in a ‘filming’ day at Silverstone on Monday

Lotus pulls out of Barcelona test

February 21st, 2012

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Lotus pulls out of Barcelona test

Lotus has pulled out of the Barcelona test with immediate effect as a result of the problems it encountered with its chassis this morning. The team has decided to abandon running in order to fully understand the problem with the chassis that manifested itself on chassis 2, which ran for the first time today.

Watson: Raikkonen needs track time

January 12th, 2012

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Watson: Raikkonen needs track time

Kimi Raikkonen’s biggest challenge to recovering his form on returning to Formula 1 in 2012 will be the limited cockpit time prior to the start of the season. That is the view of five-time grand prix winner John Watson

McLaren hopes to keep Vettel waiting

September 26th, 2011

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McLaren hopes to keep Vettel waiting

McLaren is still holding out hope that it can delay Red Bull Racing’s world championship party celebrations even longer, as Sebastian Vettel targets clinching his world championship title in Japan. Vettel’s triumph in the Singapore Grand Prix was not enough to secure him the crown, thanks to Jenson Button’s second place finish. And although it is highly unlikely that Button will win every remaining race, with Vettel outside of the points, as is required for Button to win the championship, McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh says he will take satisfaction in simply delaying Red Bull Racing’s crowning moment

Alonso concedes Ferrari not fast enough

April 9th, 2011

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Alonso concedes Ferrari not fast enough

Fernando Alonso says he is aware that Ferrari “must” improve quickly if it is to fight for victory soon. The Spaniard finished in a distant fourth position in the season-opening race in Australia, and was nearly a second off the pace again in today’s qualifying in Sepang. Alonso admitted there was no hiding from the fact that Ferrari’s car is simply not quick enough at the moment

Barrichello relieved to be in Australia

March 24th, 2011

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Barrichello relieved to be in Australia

Rubens Barrichello was relieved to finally make it to Australia on Thursday after a nightmare trip to get to the opening race of the season. The Williams driver was scheduled to fly from the Buenos Aires airport, but that plan was canned when the airport was forced to call off all flights due to a failure of its communication systems