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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.

Teams welcome revised GB route

April 18th, 2013

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Teams welcome revised GB route

World Rally Championship team principals have welcomed plans to move this year’s Rally GB out of Cardiff.

Rally GB aims for fan-friendly route

April 3rd, 2013

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Rally GB aims for fan-friendly route

Rally GB’s route will feature spectator stages again this year as Britain’s World Rally Championship round makes a push to reconnect with its fanbase. The 2013 GB itinerary does not allow for a full day of spectator stages, as was once traditional, stately home-style tests will be included in the route for the first time since 1999. When Rally GB moved to Cardiff in 2000, spectator stages were binned in favour of the superspecials in the docks area and the Millennium Stadium

NASCAR: Logano action not deliberate

March 27th, 2013

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NASCAR: Logano action not deliberate

NASCAR Sprint Cup director John Darby says the organisers instantly dismissed the notion of Joey Logano having deliberately triggered the Fontana crash that left Denny Hamlin with a fractured back. Logano and Hamlin ended up fighting for victory at Fontana a week after clashes both on and off track at Bristol. The pair made contact, with Hamlin hitting the wall head on and suffering an injury that will rule him out of at least five races.

F1 teams back qualifying postponement

March 16th, 2013

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F1 teams back qualifying postponement

Formula 1 teams and drivers say postponing the rest of Australian Grand Prix qualifying to Sunday morning was the only sensible decision. Repeated heavy rain showers and the approach of darkness meant only Q1 could be run on Saturday. Q2 and Q3 will now take place at 11am local time, six hours before the scheduled race start

ERC moves Croatia and Poland dates

February 12th, 2013

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ERC moves Croatia and Poland dates

The Croatian round of the European Rally Championship will move from June to September, in a change that also alters Rally Poland’s date. The Croatia Rally had originally been scheduled for June 6-8, but requested a transfer to the last weekend of September so it could coincide with an FIA World Motor Sport Council meeting in the country. To make room, Rally Poland moves forward a fortnight to September 13-15.

Sainz demoted by Dakar officials

January 8th, 2013

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Sainz demoted by Dakar officials

Carlos Sainz has been demoted to 10th in the Dakar Rally standings after organisers reversed their decision to give him time back on Sunday’s stage. Sainz had lost 21 minutes to the leaders on stage two when he went off course and had to double back. But when his Red Bull team argued that the incident was caused by problems with the rally’s own satellites rather than the GPS in Sainz’s Buggy, his 21m26s delay was cancelled and he was put back in the rally lead

Formula 2 will not run in 2013

December 6th, 2012

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Formula 2 will not run in 2013

MotorSport Vision, promoters of the Formula 2 championship, have announced the series will not run in 2013 after just four years of existence. The championship, a revival of the former Formula 2 series that ran until 1984, was launched in 2009 as a one-make class using cars built by Williams and powered by Audi engines. The limited success of the series, however, has forced MSV boss Jonathan Palmer to cancel the championship after only four seasons

US Friday quotes: Force India

November 16th, 2012

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Nico Hulkenberg – 7th/17th: “I think the organisers have given us an awesome circuit. It’s good fun to drive and there is a nice variation of corners, which gives a nice rhythm to the track. In terms of the new generation of tracks, I’d say it’s one of my favourites

US Friday quotes: Mercedes

November 16th, 2012

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Nico Rosberg – 9th/7th: “I like the new track here at the Circuit of the Americas very much and they have done a great job with the layout. We’ve also had a really nice welcome for Formula One in the US as you can see how many fans are at the circuit already on a Friday. The grandstands looked really packed

Gilham replaces sick Stockton

October 7th, 2012

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Gilham replaces sick Stockton

Tony Gilham will replace Chris Stockton in Thorney Motorsport’s Vauxhall Insignia at the Silverstone rounds of the British Touring Car Championship. Stockton made his series comeback during Silverstone qualifying, going 21st fastest in the 24-car grid. But Stockton is now ill and Gilham, who raced the car at Snetterton earlier in the season, will step in for the three races

Newsham accepts grid penalty

October 7th, 2012

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British Touring Car frontrunner Dave Newsham will start fifth for the first race at Silverstone after not appealing his grid penalty. Newsham’s ES Racing Vauxhall Vectra had set a time good enough for second, but had run off the track at Copse. The time was disallowed , dropping Newsham to fifth.

ELMS cancels remaining rounds

July 20th, 2012

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ELMS cancels remaining rounds

The remaining scheduled rounds of the 2012 European Le Mans Series have been cancelled, with the American Le Mans Series’ Petit Le Mans finale counting for points for ELMS teams instead.

DeltaWing: Potential still untapped

June 7th, 2012

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DeltaWing: Potential still untapped

Marino Franchitti reckons there is plenty of time still to come from the DeltaWing when the car attempts to qualify for the Le Mans 24 Hours next week, following a successful test at the La Sarthe last weekend. The Nissan-powered machine, which has been invited to compete in the race under the ACO’s ‘Garage 56′ rules for experimental machinery, ended the day 32nd fastest overall with its best time of 3m47.980s just two seconds shy of the target time it was set by the organisers

Detroit pledges no repeat track issues

June 5th, 2012

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Detroit pledges no repeat track issues

Detroit race officials have pledged that there will be no repeat of the problems with the track surface that caused a two-hour stoppage during Sunday’s IndyCar race on the Belle Isle street circuit. The race was red-flagged when large sections of filler began to lift from the track surface, eventually causing Andretti Autosport’s James Hinchcliffe to crash into a tyre barrier just before the scheduled half-way mark. Detroit GP chairman Bud Denker said that the track problems were the only blight on an otherwise successful revival of the Detroit event, and promised that there will be no repeat next year.

Mikkelsen hopes to break asphalt duck

May 10th, 2012

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Mikkelsen hopes to break asphalt duck

Defending Intercontinental Rally Challenge champion Andreas Mikkelsen hopes to break his asphalt rally duck on this week’s Tour de Corse.

Sordo against running stage in dark

April 27th, 2012

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Sordo against running stage in dark

Dani Sordo has criticised the organisers’ decision to run the final day one stage of Rally Argentina in the dark. Sordo, who is holding third place just 13 seconds off the lead on his debut with the Ford team, felt the Cosquin/Villa Allende stage should have been cancelled

Argentina leg one will run into dark

April 27th, 2012

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Argentina leg one will run into dark

Rally Argentina organisers have confirmed that the full distance of leg one will be run despite the delays incurred on Friday morning – meaning the final stage of the day will take place in the dark. The fifth round of the World Rally Championship was delayed when the truck taking petrol to the refuel after stage two suffered mechanical problems. The first car on the road this morning – Sebastien Loeb’s Citroen – was scheduled to start the La Pampa test at 0728 local time, but the #1 Citroen did not get a green light until 0830

ELMS forced to cancel Zolder round

April 2nd, 2012

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ELMS forced to cancel Zolder round

A lack of entries has forced the organisers of the European Le Mans Series to cancel the second round of the championship, which was to be held at Zolder on May 20. Just 21 cars took part in the opening race at Paul Ricard last weekend and only 19 entries were registered for the Belgian race. Following a meeting between ELMS promoter Patrick Peter, ACO vice president Pierre Fillon, FIM WEC general manager Gerard Neveu and ACO sports director Vincent Beaumesnil (ACO Sports Director) at Ricard, and in consultation with the teams, it was decided to write off the event

Weather halts Rally of Portugal

March 30th, 2012

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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

Latvala warns night stages may be over

March 29th, 2012

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Latvala warns night stages may be over

Ford’s Jari-Matti Latvala has warned that if tonight’s three Rally of Portugal stages are hit by a dust problem, it must spell the end of night time running on most of the World Rally Championship rounds. Latvala won yesterday’s qualifying stage and elected to run 17th on the road in order to benefit from the road-cleaning effect from the 16 cars ahead of him. The Finn is well aware, however, that if the organisers’ efforts to water the stages don’t work, he could be left to deal with the worst of the clouds of dust.