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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.

OAK to run Plowman in WEC

March 4th, 2013

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OAK to run Plowman in WEC

Briton Martin Plowman has joined the French OAK Racing squad for this year’s World Endurance Championship.

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

Graf gives Pickett another ALMS pole

September 14th, 2012

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Klaus Graf claimed pole in the Pickett HPD as the American Le Mans Series made its debut at Virginia International Raceway.

Level 5 grabs outright ALMS one-two

September 1st, 2012

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Level 5 took an outright one-two with its LMP2 class HPDs in a dramatic American Le Mans Series street race in Baltimore. With LMP1 combatants Pickett and Dyson both hitting trouble, Christophe Bouchut and Scott Tucker were able to lead Level 5 team-mates Luis Diaz and Ricardo Gonzalez home for an overall win. Bouchut’s class-title-chasing #055 car was allowed an easy passage into first by Diaz in the closing stages, as Bouchut charged back into contention following a lower-key first stint from Tucker.

Graf dominates ALMS qualifying

August 17th, 2012

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Pickett Racing’s domination of the American Le Mans Series continued at Road America as a gearbox problem for the rival #16 Dyson Lola-Mazda left Klaus Graf to take an uncontested pole in Pickett’s HPD. With Chris Dyson and Guy Smith sitting out the session and destined to start at the back, Graf claimed pole by three seconds over Dyson’s #20 car, driven by Eric Lux

Pickett duo keep winning in ALMS

August 4th, 2012

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Pickett Racing’s Lucas Luhr and Klaus Graf notched up their fifth consecutive American Le Mans Series LMP1 victory with a straightforward run in Saturday’s Mid-Ohio round. Luhr and Graf’s HPD was only headed by the rival Dyson Lola-Mazda of Guy Smith and Chris Dyson during pitstop sequences.

Pizzonia joins Conquest for Laguna

May 9th, 2012

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Pizzonia joins Conquest for Laguna

Antonio Pizzonia will make his endurance racing debut in the American Le Mans Series with Conquest, the team has announced. The 31-year-old former Formula 1 driver will be the team’s third driver for this weekend’s round of the ALMS at Laguna Seca.

Graf/Luhr claim Long Beach victory

April 15th, 2012

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Klaus Graf and Lucas Luhr took an emphatic win in Saturday’s American Le Mans Series round on the Long Beach street circuit. The Muscle Milk/Pickett Racing HPD duo, who started from second on the grid, took the lead for the final time with around 30 minutes left to run and quickly opened a gap over polesitter Chris Dyson, who was sharing his Dyson Racing Lola-Mazda with Guy Smith

Conquest to run Nissan engine in ALMS

April 10th, 2012

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Conquest to run Nissan engine in ALMS

Conquest has announced that it will run a Nissan engine in its LMP2 car for the remainder of the ALMS season.

Plowman joins Conquest for ALMS

February 26th, 2012

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Plowman joins Conquest for ALMS

Martin Plowman will move to sportscar racing for 2012 having signed for Conquest’s new American Le Mans Series LMP2 programme. The 24-year-old Briton will share Conquest Endurance’s Morgan-Judd with sportscar regular David Heinemeier Hansson

Davis, Speed, van Gisbergen Shine in iPRoC

by David Phillips on December 15th, 2011

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Davis and Speed lead the iPRoC field to the start at Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Scott Speed and Shane van Gisbergen won the battles, but Brandon Davis won the war in the inaugural iRacing.com Pro Race of Champions (iPRoC).  The first online event featuring an all star cast of 27 real world professional drivers from most of the world’s top race series, the iPRoC saw former F1 and NASCAR driver Speed take the victory in the opener, a 25 lap race for virtual Chevrolet Silverados at Charlotte Motor Speedway.  Australian V8 Supercar standout Van Gisbergen responded with an equally impressive run in the finale, leading all ten laps at Watkins Glen International in his digital Mazda MX5. But it was NASCAR K&N Pro Series’ Davis, who finished .345s behind Speed at Charlotte and .167s behind van Gisbergen at the Glen who picked-up the overall win [...]

Mutoh to make Motegi IndyCar return

September 8th, 2011

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Hideki Mutoh will return to the IndyCar fold when the series travels to Motegi, Japan, for the 16th round of the season next weekend. Mutoh will race for the Sam Schmidt Motorsport squad alongside 2011 regular Alex Tagliani, who currently lies 12th in the overall championship. Mutoh made his IndyCar debut for Super Aguri Panther Racing in 2007, and stayed in the series until 2010.

Power stays on top in second practice

September 3rd, 2011

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Power stays on top in second practice

Will Power went quickest in the IndyCar practice session around the streets of Baltimore. The Australian established himself at the top early on with a 1m22.1384s effort, and aside from a brief intervention by Newman/Haas man James Hinchcliffe, remained the benchmark for the rest of the morning.

Plowman tops Sears Point practice

August 27th, 2011

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Plowman tops Sears Point practice

Martin Plowman was a surprise pace-setter in the second IndyCar practice session at Sears Point on Saturday.

Plowman to make IndyCar debut

July 8th, 2011

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Plowman to make IndyCar debut

Martin Plowman will make his IndyCar debut for Sam Schmidt Motorsports at Mid-Ohio next month. The 23-year-old Briton will also enter two more road course events at Sears Point and at the new Baltimore street circuit. “I’m thrilled to finally complete one of my goals, driving in the IndyCar Series,” said Plowman

Thrice Is Nice For Cunningham At Indy

May 28th, 2010

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Thrice Is Nice For Cunningham At Indy

INDIANAPOLIS — Wade Cunningham became the first three-time winner in the eight-year history of the Firestone Freedom 100 Friday afternoon at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Cunningham, of Auckland, New Zealand, also won this marquee race for the Firestone Indy Lights Series last year and in 2006

Hinchcliffe Grabs First Lights Victory

April 18th, 2010

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Hinchcliffe Grabs First Lights Victory

By Bruce Martin NSSN Correspondent LONG BEACH, Calif. — James Hinchcliffe put out a giant “No Passing Zone” around the streets of Long Beach by starting on the pole and leading all 45 laps of Sunday’s Firestone Indy Lights Grand Prix of Long Beach. It was the first career Indy Lights win in 18 starts for the Canadian driver.

Hinchcliffe Leads Indy Lights Test

March 1st, 2010

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LEEDS, Ala. — James Hinchcliffe and Team More Racing paced the first Firestone Indy Lights test of the season last week at Barber Motorsports Park as the series prepares for its opener next month in St. Petersburg, Fla.

IndyCar Racing in December

by David Phillips on December 23rd, 2009

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IndyCar Racing in December

The December weather at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway may be frightful, but that’s not preventing a delightfully enthusiastic band of iRacers from racing their Dallara Indy cars.   Did we say enthusiastic?  Add illustrious, at least in some cases. With names like Power, Wilson and Scheckter, Bettenhausen, George and Krisiloff the entry list reads like a Who’s Who of Indy car racing, past, present and yet to come.  Some are active Indy car drivers, others the sons and grandsons of some of the sport’s most legendary and influential figures, still others are rank ‘n file members of iRacing.com with names like Simpson, Doyle and Cress. Call them what you want, they call themselves the 16th Street Racing League.   Thanks to iRacing.com, they get together every Wednesday evening from as far away [...]