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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.

Pirelli ponders tyre changes by Britain

May 12th, 2013

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Pirelli ponders tyre changes by Britain

Pirelli is considering an overhaul to its tyres for the British Grand Prix in late June in a bid to prevent excessive pitstops ruining the Formula 1 spectacle. After a four-stop Spanish Grand Prix reignited the debate about whether Pirelli’s aggressive approach to 2013 had gone too far, its motorsport director Paul Hembery admitted on Sunday that changes were now being evaluated. “We aim for two to three pitstops and it was too aggressive today,” he explained.

Red Bull: title battle a four-way fight

April 25th, 2013

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Red Bull: title battle a four-way fight

Red Bull thinks that the Formula 1 title battle is still a four-way fight, even though it is leading both championships after the first flyaways. Sebastian Vettel is the only driver to have won more than one race so far this season, and he currently holds a 10-point advantage in the drivers’ standings over Kimi Raikkonen. Although Red Bull’s rivals are convinced that the RB9 is the out-and-out fastest car, the Milton Keynes-based team is less sure about the situation

Red Bull reveals RB9 launch date

January 10th, 2013

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Red Bull reveals RB9 launch date

Red Bull will unveil its new RB9 at its Milton Keynes factory on February 3, shortly before the first test of 2013 in Jerez. The Milton Keynes-based outfit has been pushing hard to gets its new car ready in time, and there had been speculation that the outfit would not make it to the opening test that begins in Spain on February 5. However, the team wrote on Twitter on Thursday that its new car was ready to run at Jerez, and would be unveiled to the public at its factory

Horner: Hamilton exit weakens McLaren

November 27th, 2012

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Horner: Hamilton exit weakens McLaren

McLaren will be less of a championship threat after Lewis Hamilton’s exit , reckons Red Bull boss Christian Horner. Hamilton’s departure for Mercedes in 2013 means Jenson Button will be joined at McLaren by Sergio Perez , who has scored three podiums with Sauber but is yet to challenge at the front consistently or win a race. Along with Ferrari, McLaren has been Red Bull’s main opposition through the Milton Keynes squad’s three-season Formula 1 title run.

Alternators ‘a worry’ for Red Bull

November 19th, 2012

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Alternators ‘a worry’ for Red Bull

Red Bull has admitted that the latest alternator failure suffered by the team is a ‘worry’ ahead of the season finale in Brazil. Mark Webber retired from third place on lap 17 of the United States Grand Prix with the alternator breakage – the third time the Milton Keynes-squad has been stopped by such a problem in a race this year.

Brawn: F1 teams must trust FIA policing

July 29th, 2012

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Brawn: F1 teams must trust FIA policing

Mercedes team principal Ross Brawn says rival teams have to simply trust that the FIA is policing Formula 1 in the proper way, on the back of another Red Bull technical controversy in Hungary. Just a week after an issue with Red Bull’s engine maps in Hockenheim, it emerged in Hungary that the Milton Keynes-based outfit had been asked at the Canadian GP to modify a device that could have allowed the team to alter suspension settings manually – something that is against the regulations.

Webber: Picking RBR over Ferrari ‘easy’

July 10th, 2012

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Webber: Picking RBR over Ferrari ‘easy’

Mark Webber claims it was an easy decision to commit himself to Red Bull Racing for 2013 – after confirming for the first time that he did hold talks with Ferrari. The Australian’s British Grand Prix victory proved the catalyst for him and his Milton Keynes-based outfit to finalise a deal for next year, even though team principal Christian Horner suggested at the weekend that they would still hold back for a while before beginning talks. Webber says the prospect of fighting for the world championship this year, and his in-depth knowledge of the way Red Bull Racing operated, were key factors that made him choose to stick with his current team once again

Alonso tops morning session at Mugello

May 1st, 2012

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Alonso tops morning session at Mugello

Fernando Alonso handed Ferrari the perfect start to Formula 1′s in-season test at Mugello by going fastest on the opening morning. The times, however, mattered little on a day which started wet and dried throughout as the 11-strong field – missing only HRT – headed out

Red Bull to launch RB8 on February 6

January 17th, 2012

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Red Bull Racing will unveil its new RB8 on its own official website on February 6, the day before the first pre-season test takes place. The team announced on Tuesday that at 1pm on February 6, images of the new car and comments from drivers and management will be available on www.redbullracing.com . The RB8 car will be the machine that the Milton Keynes-based outfit is hoping will deliver its third consecutive drivers’ and constructors’ world championship following Sebastian Vettel’s back-to-back success in 2010 and 2011

Red Bull enjoys hometown celebration

December 10th, 2011

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Red Bull enjoys hometown celebration

Red Bull estimated that a crowd of 60,000 spectators turned out for its Home Run championship celebration in its Milton Keynes hometown today. Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber took to the streets in their Formula 1 cars, joined by David Coulthard in a NASCAR Red Bull Toyota and Red Bull stunt rider Chris Pfeiffer. “It’s great to be here in Milton Keynes which is where the cars are built and everyone from the factory works,” said Vettel

Red Bull: Winning car key to keep Vettel

November 15th, 2011

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Red Bull: Winning car key to keep Vettel

Red Bull advisor Helmut Marko says having a winning car is key to retaining the services of Sebastian Vettel in the long run. Vettel has a contract with the team until 2014, having joined the Milton Keynes squad in 2009. Since then he has won two titles and taken 20 wins to become the youngest double champion in history.

Red Bull/Mercedes top pitstop league

November 8th, 2011

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Red Bull/Mercedes top pitstop league

Red Bull Racing and Mercedes GP have proved to be the consistently quickest teams at pitstops this season. According to data released by Mercedes GP on Tuesday, its calculations suggest that the fastest average times of the two outfits for every standard tyre change stop are equal ahead of this weekend’s Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.

RBR duo confirmed for celebration show

November 2nd, 2011

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RBR duo confirmed for celebration show

Red Bull has confirmed that Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber will attend the end-of-year celebration show scheduled for December. The show will take place in Milton Keynes on December 10 along the full length of Midsummer Boulevard in Milton Keynes, between Centre MK (Saxon Gate) and MK Station (Grafton Gate) and will feature two Formula 1 cars driven by Vettel and Webber.

Front wing effort pays off for Vettel

October 8th, 2011

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Front wing effort pays off for Vettel

Red Bull Racing team principal Christian Horner has revealed that the new front wing parts that helped Sebastian Vettel claim a sensational pole position for the Japanese Grand Prix only arrived at the track 30 minutes before qualifying. Vettel broke his only version of the front wing with an off during first practice on Friday, so the team had to push ahead with work at the Milton Keynes factory to prepare new endplates. These were then put on a commercial plane from London to Nagoya overnight, before being couriered by helicopter to the Suzuka track shortly before qualifying got under way.

Infiniti: No interest in engine badging

March 1st, 2011

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Infiniti: No interest in engine badging

Infiniti has no desire for Red Bull Racing’s Renault engines to be rebadged under its own name as part of its commercial tie-up with the world championship-winning team, despite wild claims this week about such a move. Widespread media reports incorrectly suggested that Infiniti’s partnership with Red Bull Racing would result in the Milton Keynes-based outfit rebranding its Renault engines for 2011.

Red Bull open about Webber’s future

February 16th, 2011

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Red Bull open about Webber’s future

Red Bull Racing boss Christian Horner says he sees no reason why Mark Webber could not stay at the the team beyond 2011 if he continues to perform as strongly as last year. The Australian renewed his contract with the Milton Keynes-based squad just for one year, meaning he will be free at the end of the current season. Horner has made it clear that Webber will not approach the year thinking this is his final season with Red Bull, and insisted they will talk about the future as the year develops

Horner: Red Bull team now best in world

November 15th, 2010

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Horner: Red Bull team now best in world

Red Bull Racing has ‘come of age’ this season and proved itself as the best team in the world at the moment.

Vettel still optimistic about title

November 7th, 2010

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Vettel still optimistic about title

Sebastian Vettel says he remains optimistic that he can clinch the drivers’ title after winning the Brazilian Grand Prix. The Red Bull driver took his fourth win of the 2010 season at Interlagos, leading team-mate Mark Webber to another one-two for his team. The result left Webber eight points behind championship leader Fernando Alonso, with Vettel still 16 behind the Spaniard

Alonso: Red Bull friction no advantage

November 7th, 2010

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Alonso: Red Bull friction no advantage

Fernando Alonso does not expect any friction inside Ferrari’s main title rival Red Bull Racing to boil over onto the track in the Brazilian Grand Prix. On the back of comments from Mark Webber that he felt Red Bull chiefs emotionally favoured his team-mate Sebastian Vettel, there has been intense focus this weekend on the situation within the Milton Keynes-based outfit. But although any trouble between Webber and Vettel could be a help to Alonso as he bids to seal his third world championship title in Brazil today, the Spaniard does not expect to be able to take advantage of anything that is going on at Red Bull Racing

Alonso aims to put pressure on Red Bull

October 7th, 2010

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Alonso aims to put pressure on Red Bull

Fernando Alonso thinks it important he at least puts Red Bull Racing under some pressure at this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix in a bid to force them into errors. With Red Bull Racing having earlier this season failed to convert dominant qualifying form into race results, Alonso thinks there is an opportunity for him to capitalise if he can make his Milton Keynes-based rivals trip up