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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.

Biffle wins Michigan Cup race

June 16th, 2013

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Greg Biffle claimed his first NASCAR Sprint Cup win of the season with victory at Michigan. The Roush Fenway Ford driver took control in the final round of pitstops and held firm to triumph ahead of Kevin Harvick and Martin Truex Jr

Edwards takes pole at Michigan

June 14th, 2013

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Edwards takes pole at Michigan

Carl Edwards has taken pole position for this weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Michigan.

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.

Hometown Hero

by Jordan Hightower on June 11th, 2013

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Week 6 Texas P1

Texas Motor Speedway played host to Week Six of the NASCAR iRacing Class C Fixed Series and a hometown hero was able to make his way to victory lane during the week’s top Strength of Field event. 2,202 sim racers took the track for at least one race during the week, each looking for a trip to Texas’ victory lane, but only one could lay claim to victory. The 1.5-mile speedway provides some of the closest racing that iRacing has to offer, but this week it provided more of a challenge than usual. Since this series runs a fixed setup (everyone has the same setup), some drivers had concerns that the setup was too loose, which made the Silverado more difficult to drive compared to other big speedways on the [...]

Buie’s Monster Week

by Jordan Hightower on June 10th, 2013

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Week 5 Dover P1

Week Five of the NASCAR iRacing Class C Fixed heads to Dover International Speedway for some action at the 1-mile concrete coliseum. Over 2,000 sim racers took the green flag for at least one race during the week, but there would be only one who could claim they are king at Dover. NASCAR iRacing Pro Series competitor Brandon Buie (Atlantic) drove his No. 1 Silverado into victory lane during the week’s top Strength of Field event after race leader Brandon Wise (California) had struggles after leading the opening 31 laps. Marc Melcher (DE-AT-CH) finished in the second position after starting fifth, just 0.387 seconds behind race winner Buie. Chase Cabre (Florida) was a man of threes during the race. Cabre finished in the third position after starting third all while [...]

Allmendinger to replace Labonte

June 8th, 2013

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Allmendinger to replace Labonte

AJ Allmendinger will replace Bobby Labonte in the JTG Daugherty NASCAR Sprint Cup team for at least five races, starting at Michigan next weekend.

iRacer Profile: Cole C. Anderson

by David Phillips on June 8th, 2013

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Cole C. Anderson may be a young man of few words (see below), but when it comes to iRacing his accomplishments speak for themselves.  Apart from contributing more than 100,000 laps in competition to the 737M iRacing laps in the books, he has more than 600 wins to his credit, from IndyCars to Silverados, Corvettes and Advanced Legends, the latter of which saw him finish runner-up in the 2013 S1 standings.  He’s also had success in Street Stocks, twice finishing in the top five and, speaking of success Anderson has achieved “real world” racing success in quarter midgets and Late Models at Elko Speedway, a 3/8 mile, high banked oval near his home in Northfield, MN, winning the Minnesota Quarter Midget Racing Association 2011 Heavy Honda championship and MQMRA 2012 [...]

Johnson handed pole as rain hits

June 7th, 2013

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Jimmie Johnson will start Sunday’s Pocono NASCAR Sprint Cup race from pole position after qualifying was rained off on Friday afternoon.

Race Centre Live back this weekend

June 7th, 2013

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Race Centre Live back this weekend

AUTOSPORT Race Centre Live is back this weekend for as-it-happens coverage from around the motorsport world alongside our established Formula 1 live service. It’s a tin-top bonanza, as the British Touring Car Championship resumes at Oulton Park, the World Touring Car Championship makes its Moscow debut, and the Superstars International Series heads to Slovakia for the first time

Montoya sure oval victory will come

June 5th, 2013

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Montoya sure oval victory will come

Juan Pablo Montoya is confident he can end his wait for a breakthrough NASCAR Sprint Cup oval victory. The Colombian was leading until three laps to go at Dover, when Tony Stewart managed to slip by and demote him into second.

Keselowski, Penske penalised again

June 5th, 2013

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Keselowski, Penske penalised again

Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski, his crew chief Paul Wolfe and the Penske team have all been penalised after his car failed a post-race technical inspection after last weekend’s race at Dover. The car was found to be in violation of Sections 12-4J (any determination by NASCAR that equipment used in a race does not conform to the rules), 20-12.8.1B, (minimum front car height) and 12-1 (actions detrimental to stock car racing) of the series’ regulations

Stewart says win won’t cure all woes

June 4th, 2013

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Stewart says win won’t cure all woes

Tony Stewart admits he would never have predicted the resurgence that brought his Stewart-Haas team victory in the Dover NASCAR Sprint Cup race .

IndyCar Sebring

by Matt Kingsbury on June 1st, 2013

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Round Four of the iRacing.com IndyCar Series (road) visited historic Sebring.

The fourth week of iRacing.com IndyCar Road Fixed Series action took place at the Sebring International Raceway, a runway converted to a race course that was the first track  to host the United States Grand Prix in 1959. The circuit used by the Dallara Indy Car teams this week was the Modified Circuit which brings the course length to just under two miles at a 1.97 mile length consisting of nine turns.  This week only 94 sim-racers geared-up to take victory at the acclaimed track. The iRacing.com IndyCar Road Fixed Series saw strength of field race of 2026 with ten drivers taking a shot at the win. Five cars finished on the lead lap and were led by Denis Garese (France) who led 15 out of 36 laps and set [...]

Doyle and Miller Taste the Milk

by Matt Kingsbury on May 31st, 2013

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Nowhere is there such a gulf between the thrill of victory and  the agony of defeat than at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

The fourth week of the iRacing.com IndyCar Oval Series headed to the  Indianapolis Motor Speedway, home of IndyCar racing.  The Indianapolis Motor Speedway has hosted racing events for almost every major racing series; this includes NASCAR, Grand-Am, Formula 1, MotoGP and of course IZOD IndyCar racing. The circuit that we visit this week is the 2.5 mile oval with each of its four corners at a nine degree banking. The track nicknamed “The Brickyard” saw the first 500 mile race in 1911 on its brick surface which consisted of over three million bricks. This week in the month of May over 1600 drivers geared-up to tackle the venue and be the driver who tastes the buttermilk at the end of the day, it was truly Indy or bust. The iRacing.com [...]

Kahne: TV cable yellow came too late

May 27th, 2013

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Kahne: TV cable yellow came too late

Charlotte NASCAR Sprint Cup runner-up Kasey Kahne believes the yellow should have come out sooner when a television camera cable fell onto the track in Sunday night’s race. The bizarre incident caused damage to 19 cars and also left 10 spectators with minor injuries. NASCAR stopped the race to allow repairs to take place without any of the competitors involved being delayed

Harvick wins gruelling Charlotte race

May 27th, 2013

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Harvick wins gruelling Charlotte race

Kevin Harvick snatched Charlotte NASCAR Sprint Cup victory from Kasey Kahne at the end of a gruelling 600-mile race interrupted by two red flags. Kahne had led 156 of the 400 laps and was as much as six seconds clear of the field at times in his Hendrick Chevrolet. But he was wrong-footed by a caution for debris with 16 laps to go.

Speed increases NASCAR programme

May 22nd, 2013

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Speed increases NASCAR programme

Scott Speed is adding up to 10 further NASCAR Sprint Cup events to his schedule after his recent top-10 finish at Talladega secured extra backing for his Leavine Family Racing Ford Fusion. The ex-Toro Rosso Formula 1 racer now plans to combine top-level US stock car racing with a Global Rallycross Championship campaign for the rest of the season. His ninth-placed Cup finish at Talladega and victory in the opening GRC event at X Games Brazil last month have boosted his chances of extra outings, including this week’s Charlotte NASCAR round.

How to Make Your Indy 500 Last More Than 500 Meters

by Brent Pesel on May 21st, 2013

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Note:  Brent Pesel (Great Plains) has been writing an entertaining blog about iRacing for quite some time.  Here’s a teaser of his latest offering on how to go the distance in this weekend’s iRacing.com Indy 500.  Click here to read the complete blog . . . One of the most notable events of the iRacing service is upon us: the iRacing.com Indy 500.  This is the reason that many people on the service purchase the Indycar in the first place.  The goal people have in this race is to just finish the 500 miles.  Here are some tips that will hopefully help you achieve that.  It may not help you get the milk at the end of the race, but you can’t win the race if you don’t finish. Goals [...]

Johnson secures fourth All-Star win

May 19th, 2013

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Johnson secures fourth All-Star win

Jimmie Johnson recovered from his qualifying mistakes to take the $1 million NASCAR Sprint Cup All-Star race for a second straight year and the fourth time in his career. Such a result looked unlikely when Johnson overshot the Hendrick pit and then received a penalty for a missing lugnut during Friday’s qualifying session .

McMurray dominates Showdown

May 19th, 2013

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Jamie McMurray and Ricky Stenhouse Jr secured spots in the NASCAR All-Star race with first and second places in the Showdown qualifying heat. McMurray dominated most of the 40-lap event