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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.

Kobayashi joins Ferrari line-up

March 11th, 2013

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Kobayashi joins Ferrari line-up

Former grand prix driver Kamui Kobayashi has joined Ferrari’s factory World Endurance Championship campaign. The move, predicted in AUTOSPORT magazine last month, means that the former Toyota and Sauber Formula 1 driver will race a Ferrari 458 Italia in the GTE Pro class for the factory AF Corse team. Kobayashi joins a select band of Ferrari factory GT drivers, which includes Gianmaria Bruni, Giancarolo Fisichella and Toni Vilander.

Kobayashi will be back in F1 – Perez

January 9th, 2013

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Kobayashi will be back in F1 – Perez

Sergio Perez is certain his former Sauber team-mate Kamui Kobayashi can earn a Formula 1 return next season. While Perez was able to secure a McLaren seat for 2013, Kobayashi was left drive-less when he was dropped by Sauber. The Swiss team signed Force India’s Nico Hulkenberg and promoted reserve driver Esteban Gutierrez to replace Perez and Kobayashi

Kobayashi thanks fans for funding help

November 27th, 2012

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Kobayashi thanks fans for funding help

Kamui Kobayashi has thanked the fans who have tried to help save his Formula 1 career by backing a fundraising website. After losing his Sauber drive because he could not raise enough sponsorship money , Kobayashi has set up a ‘Kamui Support’ website where fans can donate money to help boost his funds

Kobayashi not ruling out F1 race seat

November 24th, 2012

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Kobayashi not ruling out F1 race seat

Kamui Kobayashi thinks he might still have an opportunity to remain in Formula 1 with another team despite losing his Sauber seat to Esteban Gutierrez. The Japanese driver’s lack of sponsorship was key to Sauber’s decision.

Kobayashi fears 2013 hopes dwindling

November 22nd, 2012

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Kobayashi fears 2013 hopes dwindling

Kamui Kobayashi fears his chances of securing a drive for the 2013 Formula 1 season are narrowing as he continues to search for a sponsor. The Japanese driver was asked for financial backing in order to stay at Sauber , which is set to announce Mexican Esteban Gutierrez as Nico Hulkenberg’s team-mate for next year. Sauber said it will name its second driver during the Brazilian Grand Prix weekend

Sauber to name drivers in Brazil

November 22nd, 2012

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Sauber to name drivers in Brazil

Sauber will name its second driver for 2013 at this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix. After weeks of speculation about who will join Nico Hulkenberg for next season , the outfit is set to end the long wait for main contenders Esteban Gutierrez and Kamui Kobayashi over who has got the nod.

Kobayashi confident of 2013 F1 seat

October 28th, 2012

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Kobayashi confident of 2013 F1 seat

Kamui Kobayashi remains confident he will be on the 2013 Formula 1 grid despite having to secure sponsor backing in order to have a chance of keeping his seat at Sauber. The Japanese driver has made no secret of the fact that he has been asked for financial support to be retained by the Sauber squad and is now actively seeking a sponsor. Kobayashi suggested in India on Saturday that helping Sauber beat Mercedes to fifth place in the constructors’ championship will aid his cause.

Kobayashi: New Sauber deal needs cash

October 25th, 2012

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Kobayashi: New Sauber deal needs cash

Kamui Kobayashi says he is working to try and secure the funding needed to stay at Sauber next year. AUTOSPORT understands that the Swiss team spoke to Kobayashi about a potential deal for 2013 during the Korean Grand Prix weekend, but that it would involve him raising some sponsorship backing .

Button slams Sauber drivers

October 14th, 2012

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Button slams Sauber drivers

Sauber’s Kamui Kobayashi was guilty of an ‘idiotic’ opening lap move, according to Jenson Button. The Briton was also critical of Sergio Perez after he was forced to take evasive action when the Mexican, his future team-mate, outbraked himself down the inside at Turn 1. Having done so, however, he was then wiped out two corners later as Kobayashi barrelled off Nico Rosberg and into his McLaren.

Sauber needs more low-fuel pace

October 12th, 2012

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Sauber needs more low-fuel pace

Sauber admits it needs to improve its performance to stand a chance of repeating the podium success enjoyed last weekend in the Japanese Grand Prix. Kamui Kobayashi, who delivered the team’s fourth rostrum of 2012 and the first of his career at Suzuka, could only finish 14th in the opening two practice sessions at Korea.

Kobayashi surprised he needs backing

October 11th, 2012

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Kobayashi surprised he needs backing

Kamui Kobayashi admits he is surprised he needs to bring sponsorship to secure a Formula 1 drive for the 2013 season. The Sauber driver’s future remains uncertain despite having secured his first podium in the Japanese Grand Prix last weekend.

Podium won’t influence Kobayashi future

October 8th, 2012

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Podium won’t influence Kobayashi future

Kamui Kobayashi’s emotional podium finish in the Japanese Grand Prix is unlikely to have much impact on his chances of staying at Sauber next year, say his bosses. The Japanese driver delighted his home crowd with a well-earned third-place finish at Suzuka after holding off late-race pressure from Jenson Button. With Kobayashi working hard to convince the team that he is worth keeping for next year, the result has come at the perfect time for him.

Button hopes Red Bull form a one-off

October 7th, 2012

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Button hopes Red Bull form a one-off

Jenson Button hopes Red Bull’s commanding Japanese Grand Prix performance will be a one-off – but fears it might not. Sebastian Vettel led by as much as 20 seconds at Suzuka as he stormed to his third victory at the venue in four Formula 1 starts.

Kobayashi celebrates ‘amazing’ podium

October 7th, 2012

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Kobayashi celebrates ‘amazing’ podium

Kamui Kobayashi was always confident he could finish on the Japanese Grand Prix podium once he had got through the start unscathed and still in the lead group. The Japanese driver has seen other potentially good races go awry on lap one this year – particularly in Belgium, where he qualified second but got away slowly and was caught up in the first-lap mayhem. With his Sauber team-mate Sergio Perez delivering three podium finishes already in 2013, Kobayashi was under pressure to deliver.

Kobayashi hoping for career boost

October 6th, 2012

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Kobayashi hoping for career boost

Kamui Kobayashi believes a good result in the Japanese Grand Prix is important for his career, with the driver market so finely poised. The Sauber driver has set his sights on a podium finish at Suzuka following his top-three qualifying performance, and is well aware that such a result would boost his chances of retaining his seat

Kobayashi sceptical on Schumacher talk

October 4th, 2012

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Kobayashi sceptical on Schumacher talk

Kamui Kobayashi does not believe he will be racing alongside Michael Schumacher at Sauber in 2013.

Kobayashi: Mercedes update no worry

September 20th, 2012

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Kobayashi: Mercedes update no worry

Sauber can still fight Mercedes for fifth place in the constructors’ championship even if the German car maker takes a step forward at this weekend’s Singapore Grand Prix, according to Kamui Kobayashi. Mercedes is currently ahead of Sauber by 26 points with seven races to go , and the team is upbeat about its upgrade package for this weekend which includes a new exhaust configuration . But Kobayashi, who recently qualified on the front row for the Belgian Grand Prix, said Sauber never expected to be strong at Singapore and that the Swiss-built C31 performs better on more traditional tracks

Kobayashi: Sauber will be quick again

September 14th, 2012

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Kobayashi: Sauber will be quick again

Kamui Kobayashi is expecting his Sauber team to be strong again in the Singapore Grand Prix after its impressive pace in Italy . Kobayashi’s team-mate Sergio Perez finished in second position at Monza , while the Japanese driver wound up ninth. Although the nature of the Marina Bay circuit is very different to Monza, Kobayashi sees no reason why Sauber cannot shine again

Alonso fastest in dry final Spa practice

September 1st, 2012

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Alonso fastest in dry final Spa practice

Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso set the pace as the skies cleared over Spa-Francorchamps and the Formula 1 field finally managed some dry running in Saturday morning practice. Kimi Raikkonen put Lotus in second place, ahead of an impressive run from the Saubers of Sergio Perez and Kamui Kobayashi

Kobayashi quickest in Spa wet practice

August 31st, 2012

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Kamui Kobayashi emerged quickest for Sauber in a wet first practice session for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.