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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.

Hildebrand wants road/street chance

June 18th, 2013

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Hildebrand wants road/street chance

JR Hildebrand is hoping for an opportunity to prove his ability on road and street courses before the end of the IndyCar season as he chases a full-time return in 2014.

Andretti claims Milwaukee pole

June 14th, 2013

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Marco Andretti underlined his pace during practice by claiming pole for Saturday’s IndyCar race at Milwaukee. Andretti, who topped both the Friday practice sessions, eclipsed the track’s previous qualifying speed record with his two-lap average of 170.515mph. Team-mate James Hinchcliffe, who Andretti bumped from the top spot, also beat the old record with his 170.418mph effort

Leffler killed in sprint car crash

June 13th, 2013

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Leffler killed in sprint car crash

NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Jason Leffler has died from injuries sustained in a sprint car crash on Wednesday evening. The 37-year-old was racing in a short track event at Bridgeport Speedway in New Jersey when his car hit a wall at around 20:30 local time. He was airlifted to the Crozer-Chester Medical Centre, where he was pronounced dead just over half an hour later.

Servia gets Texas, Iowa Panther ride

June 5th, 2013

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Servia gets Texas, Iowa Panther ride

Oriol Servia will drive for Panther Racing in the Texas Motor Speedway IndyCar race this weekend, the team has announced. Servia missed the Detroit race last weekend after his Panther DRR team decided to withdraw from the series following the Indianapolis 500. Although the Spanish driver was linked with a seat for Detroit, it was Ryan Briscoe who secured the drive in the #4 car previously occupied by JR Hildebrand.

Kanaan: Indy win not down to yellows

May 27th, 2013

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Kanaan: Indy win not down to yellows

Indianapolis 500 winner Tony Kanaan says he had enough to hold off Carlos Munoz for victory even if the race had run green to the finish. A crash by Dario Franchitti meant the last two laps of the 2013 Indy 500 ran under yellow. Before that, a shootout had been brewing between Kanaan and sensational rookie Munoz , who had qualified second for his IndyCar debut in the series’ biggest race.

Mowlem firms up Le Mans plans

May 27th, 2013

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Mowlem firms up Le Mans plans

Sportscar stalwart Johnny Mowlem is relishing the chance to race a prototype at the Le Mans 24 Hours for only the second time after firming up his deal to race with the HVM Status GP LMP2 squad in next month’s event. Mowlem, whose previous Le Mans start at the wheel of a prototype came at the wheel of a Creation LMP1 in 2009, will drive the HVM Status Lola-Judd/BMW B12/80 together with Jonathan Hirschi and Tony Burgess, who raced the car at this month’s Imola European Le Mans Series round

Kanaan finally gets Indy 500 victory

May 26th, 2013

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Kanaan finally gets Indy 500 victory

Tony Kanaan’s long wait for a win at Indianapolis came to an end on Sunday when the Brazilian drank the milk at the end of an action-packed Indy 500. In a race defined by constant slipstreaming and a record 68 lead changes, the KV Racing Technology driver took the lead for the final time when he passed Ryan Hunter-Reay on a restart with three laps left to run.

Pagenaud quickest on Carb Day

May 24th, 2013

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Pagenaud quickest on Carb Day

Simon Pagenaud set the fastest time on Carb Day at Indianapolis as the cars made their final on-track appearance before Sunday’s 500-mile race.

IndyCar aims for record Indy speeds

May 24th, 2013

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IndyCar aims for record Indy speeds

IndyCar is planning rule changes that could result in breaking the speed record at Indianapolis, while continuing with its efforts to improve safety in the sport. IndyCar officials met on Thursday ahead of this weekend’s Indianapolis 500 and announced they “will open the door to increased technical innovation” with the current car with the goal of managing increases in speed.

Teams fined for Indy infractions

May 22nd, 2013

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Teams fined for Indy infractions

Three Indianapolis 500 entrants have been penalised for technical infractions following post-qualifying inspections, although the grid for Sunday’s race remains unchanged. Chip Ganassi Racing was fined $5000 after Ryan Briscoe’s car was found to be in breach of Rule 14.6.4.16, which mandates the dimensions of the trailing edge of the rear wing. Meanwhile

Jourdain misses the cut on Bump Day

May 19th, 2013

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Jourdain misses the cut on Bump Day

Rahal Letterman Lanigan will be left with just its two full-time drivers Graham Rahal and James Jakes in the Indianapolis 500 after its third entry for Michel Jourdain Jr was the surprise Bump Day casualty. The Mexican finally abandoned his efforts to make the field with just under 20 minutes of track time remaining

Carpenter claims surprise Indy pole

May 18th, 2013

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Carpenter claims surprise Indy pole

Ed Carpenter emerged as the surprise winner in the battle for pole position for next weekend’s Indianapolis 500.

Legge gets last-minute Schmidt seat

May 18th, 2013

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Legge gets last-minute Schmidt seat

Katherine Legge will make a late attempt to qualify the third Schmidt Peterson Motorsport entry for this year’s Indianapolis 500. The Briton split with IndyCar team Dragon Racing at the end of 2012. She sat out the first part of the year before racing the DeltaWing in the latest American Le Mans Series event at Laguna Seca a week ago.

Power leads pole morning practice

May 18th, 2013

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Power leads pole morning practice

Will Power fell just short of breaking the 230mph mark when he set the fastest time in Saturday morning’s final practice session before qualifying for the Indianapolis 500. Power went to the top of the timing charts with a best lap of 229.808mph to leave him clear of Penske team-mate AJ Allmendinger’s 229.086mph.

Munoz keeps Andretti on top at Indy

May 17th, 2013

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Munoz keeps Andretti on top at Indy

Andretti Autosport continued to set the pace at the end of the sixth day of practice for the Indianapolis 500, with Carlos Munoz leading team-mates Ryan Hunter-Reay and Marco Andretti for a 1-2-3 Andretti sweep of the timesheets. Munoz set the fastest time so far this week with his 225.163mph lap, which came during a late flurry of activity following a restart with 20 minutes of running left. “The fastest lap was an unbelievable tow,” Munoz said

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

Busch keen on Indy but not ready

May 9th, 2013

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Busch keen on Indy but not ready

NASCAR Sprint Cup star Kurt Busch says his IndyCar test with Andretti has left him open to a possible Indianapolis 500 campaign in the future, although he cautioned that a lot of work would have to be done before he feels ready. Busch drove IndyCar champion Ryan Hunter-Reay’s car to complete the full Indy 500 rookie orientation programme at Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Thursday, achieving average speeds of 218 mph. The 2004 Cup champion admitted that he is intrigued by the idea of tackling the Indy 500/Coca Cola 600 double, which has previously only been attempted on the same day by John Andretti, Robby Gordon, and Tony Stewart.

Lazier enters own car for Indy 500

May 9th, 2013

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Lazier enters own car for Indy 500

Buddy Lazier will attempt to qualify for this month’s Indianapolis 500 after finalising a deal to enter a self-run car. The 1996 Indy 500 winner and 2000 IRL IndyCar champion will drive the Chevrolet-powered #91 car for Lazier Partners Racing, which is owned by his father and former Indy 500 racer Bob Lazier

Hinchcliffe beats Sato in epic race

May 5th, 2013

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Hinchcliffe beats Sato in epic race

James Hinchcliffe won an extraordinary IndyCar race in Sao Paulo by taking the lead from Takuma Sato on the final corner of the last lap. The Canadian’s attempt to pass Sato a lap earlier had been frustrated when the Japanese driver defended with a move that barely straddled the line between fair racing and blocking, and Hinchcliffe initially received a similar reception on his repeat attempt. But he responded by jinking to the other side of Sato’s car and getting a better run out of the corner, taking the lead for the first time in the race with the finish line in sight.

Bell secures Panther Indy 500 seat

May 5th, 2013

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Bell secures Panther Indy 500 seat

Townsend Bell’s Indianapolis 500 return has been confirmed, with the 38-year-old having been signed by Panther Racing to drive the team’s second car at the Brickyard later this month. The deal reunites the 2001 Indy Lights champion with the team that he began his IndyCar career with after moving across from Champ Car