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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.

Brabham joins ESM for Sebring

March 1st, 2013

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Brabham joins ESM for Sebring

Sportscar stalwart David Brabham will return to the wheel of an HPD prototype at this month’s Sebring 12 Hours with the Extreme Speed Motorsports squad. The 2009 Le Mans 24 Hours winner, who raced HPD LMP machinery in 2007-10 and ’12, will drive ESM’s lead ARX-03b P2 together with Scott Sharp and Guy Cosmo in the American Le Mans Series opener on March 16. Brabham won two ALMS LMP titles with ESM co-owner Sharp driving for the Highcroft Racing team.

Dario Franchitti joins Level 5 for Petit

September 29th, 2012

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Dario Franchitti joins Level 5 for Petit

Dario Franchitti will race a Le Mans prototype for the first time since 2009 when he joins the Level 5 LMP2 squad for Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta in October. The three-time Indianapolis 500 winner and four-time IndyCar champion will share one of the Level 5 HPD-ARX-03bs with younger brother Marino, who raced for the squad at Petit in 2011, and team boss Scott Tucker, in the 1000-mile American Le Mans Series finale on October 20. It will be the elder Franchitti’s first start in an LMP prototype since racing for the Highcroft Acura team at the same event in 2009

Contact forces DeltaWing retirement

June 16th, 2012

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Contact forces DeltaWing retirement

The DeltaWing has retired from the Le Mans 24 Hours after it’s contact with the #7 Toyota in the seventh hour of the race. The innovative Nissan-powered machine, which has become a crowd favourite this week, had suffered a few early issues but was back in the running when it was tagged by Kazuki Nakajima as the race restarted following a lengthy safety car period. The impact, which came at the Porsche Curves, shunted Satoshi Motoyama into the wall.

Highcroft withdraws from Le Mans

May 17th, 2011

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Highcroft withdraws from Le Mans

American Le Mans Series champion team Highcroft Racing has withdrawn its Le Mans 24 Hours entry and ended its partnership with Honda. The team, which won the 2009 and 2010 ALMS titles, had not been able to put together a full-season package for 2011 so far, but finished second in the Sebring 12 Hours with the latest HPD LMP1 car. Although it had expected to run the car at Le Mans as well, team boss Duncan Dayton said the impact of the recent earthquake and tsunami in Japan had reduced the financial support available from Honda and meant the Le Mans 24 Hours programme was no longer viable.

HPD’s debut podium stuns drivers

March 20th, 2011

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HPD’s debut podium stuns drivers

The Highcroft drivers declared themselves stunned by the performance of the new LMP1 HPD after it claimed second in the Sebring 12 Hours just a week after its track debut.

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 heads close fight into sunset

March 19th, 2011

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Peugeot heads close fight into sunset

The #8 Peugeot of Stephane Sarrazin, Pedro Lamy and Franck Montagny continues to lead the Sebring 12 Hours into the final three hours, though it has been unable to shake off the ORECA Peugeot and Highcroft HPD. Despite the other Peugeot and both Audis being severely delayed in earlier incidents, the remaining factory Peugeot has not had things all its own way in the second half of the race. At the nine-hour mark, Sarrazin is only six seconds ahead of Loic Duval in the ORECA car, with David Brabham’s HPD also on the lead lap

#8 Peugeot leads as rivals collide

March 19th, 2011

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#8 Peugeot leads as rivals collide

The new Peugeot 908 HDi driven by Franck Montagny, Stephane Sarrazin and Pedro Lamy led the Sebring 12 Hours at the halfway point. The leading 908, which held a narrow advantage under yellow flags on the six-hour mark, was the only one of the four factory turbodiesels entered by Peugeot and Audi to reach the halfway stage without problems. The two Audi R15+ TDIs and the second new 908 were all involved in incidents resulting in major delays.

Peugeot on top after three hours

March 19th, 2011

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Peugeot on top after three hours

Peugeot is running one-two in the Sebring 12 Hours at one quarter distance, although the lead keeps changing hands with all the frontrunners on slightly different pit strategies. The #7 Peugeot had the advantage after three hours, with Anthony Davidson holding a 23-second cushion over Stephane Sarrazin after the latter’s recent pitstop. Davidson’s next stop is due soon

ORECA quickest in final practice

March 18th, 2011

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ORECA quickest in final practice

The old-specification ORECA Peugeot set a surprise fastest time in the final practice session before qualifying for the Sebring 12 Hours. Audi had looked set to lead the way until ORECA’s Loic Duval put in a 1m48.704s right at the end of the session to take the quickest time by a second.

Audi quickest in Sebring practice

March 17th, 2011

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Audi quickest in Sebring practice

Audi was fastest in both of the daytime Sebring 12 Hours practice sessions on Thursday, though times remained slower than the best testing pace from earlier in the week.

LMP1 HPD makes testing debut

March 13th, 2011

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The new LMP1 version of the HPD ARX-01e made its track debut in private testing at Sebring yesterday. The car is an upgraded version of the LMP2-spec HPD that Highcroft took to last year’s American Le Mans Series title, and features new aerodynamics and suspension as well as the power increase required for the top class

Brabham to race Sumo Power Nissan

March 11th, 2011

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Brabham to race Sumo Power Nissan

Le Mans winner and multiple sportscar champion David Brabham will join the GT1 World Championship with Sumo Power Nissan this year. The 45-year-old Australian will share the team’s #21 with Jaime Campbell-Walter, who has been confirmed for a second year with the squad

HPD reveals 2011 LMP1 contender

March 10th, 2011

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HPD reveals 2011 LMP1 contender

Highcroft has revealed the first images of the new LMP1 version of the HPD as it prepares to take the Honda brand back to sportscar racing’s top level.

Highcroft expects to defend title

February 10th, 2011

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Highcroft expects to defend title

Reigning American Le Mans Series champion team Highcroft Racing says it is close to committing to a title defence, after announcing that it will definitely contest the Sebring 12 Hours and Le Mans 24 Hours with the latest LMP1 HPD. Highcroft’s plans for 2011 had been uncertain over the winter, with lead driver David Brabham admitting he was keeping his options open in case Duncan Dayton’s squad was unable to put a programme together for the season

Highcroft chasing HPD LMP1 deal

January 20th, 2011

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Highcroft chasing HPD LMP1 deal

American Le Mans Series champion team Highcroft is keen to be part of HPD’s new LMP1 programme, but team boss Duncan Dayton says nothing is currently finalised for the squad’s 2011 campaign. Highcroft won the ALMS LMP1 title in 2009 and the temporarily combined prototype category last year, both with Acura/HPD machinery. It has continued to work with Honda and has conducted several tests of the new HPD LMP2 engine

Brabham ‘on the market’ for 2011

January 15th, 2011

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Brabham ‘on the market’ for 2011

American Le Mans Series title-winner David Brabham says he is open to approaches for the 2011 season as he is not yet sure that Highcroft will be able to put a programme together. Racing for Highcroft in the ALMS has been Brabham’s primary focus for the past four years, though he also won the 2009 Le Mans 24 Hours with Peugeot and took GT1 class wins with Aston Martin in the preceding two seasons. Though he emphasised that his preference was to stay on with Highcroft and aim for a third straight ALMS crown, Brabham said nothing was certain at present

Peugeot leads into closing stages

October 2nd, 2010

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Peugeot leads into closing stages

Peugeot is in control of the Petit Le Mans as the endurance race enters its final quarter.

Davidson puts Peugeot on Petit pole

October 1st, 2010

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Davidson puts Peugeot on Petit pole

Peugeot’s Anthony Davidson scorched to pole position in qualifying for tomorrow’s Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta.