inRacingNews Settings

Collapse

Main Content

Keep navigation bar on top
Show featured article box
Show Comments

Sidebar

Calendar
Series Standings
Recent
Most Viewed
Most Commented
Categories
iRacing TV
Facebook Fans
The Team
Blogroll
Save Settings
5dollarpromo_160x600 Main Performance PC Lionel Skip Barber Racing School Derek Speare Designs Dream Racing ROAR One Lap of America
M T W T F S S
  1 2
3 4 5 6 7 8 9
10 11 12 13 14 15 16
17 18 1920 21 22 23
24 25 26 27 28 29 30

Categories

Collapse Expand

iRacing TV

Collapse Expand

Facebook Fans

Collapse Expand

The Team

Collapse Expand
  • 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.

Giovanardi returns to Superstars

May 3rd, 2013

3
Giovanardi returns to Superstars

Fabrizio Giovanardi will return to competition this year after announcing he will rejoin the Superstars series this month. The Italian, who has nine major tin-top titles to his name including two BTCC crowns, raced in the series in 2010 and will be joining the Petri Corse team driving a Porsche Panamera S at Brno later this month. Giovanardi is the only driver to have won with the Panamera in the Superstars series so far

F3 Masters saved as GT date moves

March 18th, 2013

26
F3 Masters saved as GT date moves

The Masters of Formula 3 race has been saved after the FIA World Motor Sports Council agreed to a dispensation in the F3 European Championship sporting regulations, AUTOSPORT has learned. The category’s Zandvoort classic, which has moved to a new date of July 7, will still be joined by the FIA GT Series, which has also moved its Dutch date forward a week.

‘No more excuses’ for Mercedes

January 25th, 2013

8
‘No more excuses’ for Mercedes

Mercedes will have no excuses not to be competitive during the 2013 season, according to Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone. Former champion Lewis Hamilton is joining the team from McLaren, as Mercedes ramps up its efforts to fight for the titles after a disappointing 2012 season. Mercedes has also hired former Williams executive director Toto Wolff for a management role

Strong replaces Cochrane as V8s boss

November 28th, 2012

3
Strong replaces Cochrane as V8s boss

James Strong has been appointed as the new non-executive chairman of V8 Supercars, effectively replacing the departing Tony Cochrane. Cochrane, instrumental in the creation of the V8 Supercars brand in 1996, announced he would retire from his role as executive chairman back in September.

Menu fastest, Honda picks up pace

October 20th, 2012

4

Alain Menu led another all-Chevrolet top three in Saturday morning practice for the World Touring Car Championship’s Suzuka round. But while the dominant squad again led the way, Tiago Monteiro hinted at the potential of the new Honda at he took fourth place.

Davison heads FPR grid sweep

June 17th, 2012

2
Davison heads FPR grid sweep

Ford Performance Racing monopolised the leading positions in qualifying for the second leg of V8 Supercars’ Hidden Valley round. Will Davison won a late pole shoot-out with his FPR team-mate Mark Winterbottom to take the top spot by 0.1681 seconds, as David Reynolds in the third FPR entry jumped to third

H5: Huge crash for Davidson

June 16th, 2012

6
H5: Huge crash for Davidson

A dramatic fifth hour of the Le Mans 24 Hours ended under yellow cars following a terrifying accident involving Anthony Davidson’s #8 Toyota and Piergiuseppe Perazzini’s #81 AF Corse Ferrari.

Lotterer leads Audi 1-2-3-4 in practice

June 13th, 2012

5
Lotterer leads Audi 1-2-3-4 in practice

Andre Lotterer put the #1 Audi e-tron on top by 1.3 seconds just as the chequered flag fell on the opening free practice session for the Le Mans 24 Hours on Wednesday. Lotterer and fellow e-tron driver Tom Kristensen had engaged in a late battle for first place, with the German pipping the Dane by just over a tenth of a second 25 minutes from the end. There was still more speed to come from the #1, though, as Lotterer demonstrated with a commanding 3m25.163s on his penultimate flying lap.

Weather halts Rally of Portugal

March 30th, 2012

4

The Rally of Portugal has been stopped due to the bad weather, with the leading crews being held at the service park in Faro. The event is expected to restart in the next hour, with the delay caused by the flooding of a river crossing after the sixth stage of the event

Pedrosa fastest in first session

October 21st, 2011

2
Pedrosa fastest in first session

Dani Pedrosa set a commanding pace as Honda predictably led the way in opening practice at Sepang. With Yamaha’s Jorge Lorenzo sidelined by the hand injury he sustained at Phillip Island, it was no surprise to see the four works-specification Hondas monopolising the leading positions in Malaysia

Evans on pole at Nurburgring

July 23rd, 2011

3
Evans on pole at Nurburgring

Mitch Evans took pole position for the first GP3 race of the weekend at the Nurburgring, in a session where the top four cars were covered by less than one tenth of a second. The former championship leader snatched top spot in the final two minutes of a session which came alive once the leading runners got their second sets of tyres up to temperature with just over five minutes remaining. In the frantic activity that followed, early provisional pole-sitter Tom Dillmann initially extended his gap over the field to a comfortable half a second.

Conway quickest despite crash

July 9th, 2011

3
Conway quickest despite crash

Mike Conway was quickest in morning practice ahead of qualifying for the IndyCar Series’ Toronto round – despite crashing during the session.

Davidson: Audi has an edge

June 12th, 2011

16
Davidson: Audi has an edge

Anthony Davidson has conceded the Audi R18 has an edge on the Peugeot 908 at this year’s Le Mans, but still believes the French team can apply pressure to the sole remaining Audi in the final hours. Davidson’s #7 Peugeot, which he shares with Marc Gene and Alex Wurz, is currently third, around 40 seconds behind the leading Audi and 20s behind the #9 Peugeot.

H1: McNish crashes out of Le Mans

June 11th, 2011

6

Audi runs 1-2 at the Le Mans 24 Hours with the course neutralised after Allan McNish suffered a high-speed accident in the #3 R18. Timo Bernhard leads from Benoit Treluyer, with the Peugeot of Franck Montagny running third

China Saturday quotes: Pirelli

April 16th, 2011

0

Paul Hembery: “It’s been another very exciting and eventful session, which has underlined not only the performance but also the consistency of our tyres. “A number of drivers were able to set their fastest times on used soft tyres, proving that the drop-off is manageable enough to provide a good spread of performance over a stint.

Rosberg under no illusions over progress

April 15th, 2011

2
Rosberg under no illusions over progress

Nico Rosberg says he is under no illusions about the pace of his Mercedes team, the German conceding it will be very hard for his squad to move up the field. “I’m not worried, but it’s going to be very difficult to move far up from where we are,” said Rosberg, who is yet to score a point after the first two races

Melker leads final winter GP3 test

April 14th, 2011

0
Melker leads final winter GP3 test

Nigel Melker was quickest for the Mucke team on the final day of GP3 pre-season testing at Catalunya. The second-year GP3 driver – who is also racing in the Formula 3 Euro Series this year – set the pace in the morning with a 1m37.882s lap, a comfortable three tenths ahead of Alexander Sims in the leading Status entry.

AUTOSPORT launches Android App

March 24th, 2011

132
AUTOSPORT launches Android App

Owners of Android smartphones can now keep up to date with the ever- changing world of motorsport though the newly launched AUTOSPORT Android app. Mobile visits currently represent 7.6 per cent of our total site traffic, a proportion that has been increasing rapidly with the burgeoning popularity of the Android platform. The AUTOSPORT Android app provides a smooth, hassle-free and instant way of accessing our web content, including live commentary and the rich archive of FORIX statistics.

Renault ‘very positive’ about Heidfeld

February 12th, 2011

0
Renault ‘very positive’ about Heidfeld

Renault team boss Eric Boullier said Nick Heidfeld made a very strong first impression as he set the quickest time in testing on his debut with the squad at Jerez today.

Heidfeld’s Renault run set for Saturday

February 11th, 2011

0
Heidfeld’s Renault run set for Saturday

Nick Heidfeld’s evaluation test with Renault will take place tomorrow, the team has announced. The German is the leading candidate to fill in for the injured Robert Kubica, with Renault boss Eric Boullier saying yesterday that the drive was Heidfeld’s as long as the test went smoothly.