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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.

Lorenzo says missing pole no concern

May 18th, 2013

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Lorenzo says missing pole no concern

MotoGP champion Jorge Lorenzo said missing out on the French Grand Prix pole to Marc Marquez was no concern as his whole focus was on ensuring his Yamaha did not fall off the pace in the race again. Lorenzo led the last round in Spain at first, but was overhauled by Honda’s Dani Pedrosa and then denied second when Marquez barged past at the final corner. The Yamaha rider had been concerned about long-run pace following that disappointment and remained unsure about his bike’s speed in Friday practice at Le Mans

Rossi: Marquez clash a racing incident

May 7th, 2013

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Rossi: Marquez clash a racing incident

Valentino Rossi believes Marc Marquez and Jorge Lorenzo’s last-lap MotoGP clash at Jerez was simply a racing incident. The seven-time world champion famously clashed with Sete Gibernau in a mirror of Marquez’s move back in 2005

Latvala elects to run last in Argentina

May 1st, 2013

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Latvala elects to run last in Argentina

Jari-Matti Latvala has gambled on the weather staying dry, despite the threat of rain, on tomorrow’s opening leg of Rally Argentina. Latvala elected to run last on the road of the World Rally Cars in Villa Carlos Paz this afternoon, with only Qatar M-Sport’s Evgeny Novikov bucking the trend – the Russian star leads the crews away from first on the road

Rossi sure Austin slump not a trend

April 30th, 2013

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Rossi sure Austin slump not a trend

Valentino Rossi is confident that he will be “fine” now that MotoGP is back in Europe after a disappointing performance in the last round in America. Rossi had made a spectacular start to his return to Yamaha when he surged through the field to take second in the Qatar season-opener. But he struggled at the following race at Austin , where amid a weekend of brake problems he could only qualify eighth and finish sixth

Qatar in contention for 2014 F1 test

April 23rd, 2013

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Qatar in contention for 2014 F1 test

Qatar’s Losail circuit is being considered as a venue for Formula 1 pre-season testing next year, AUTOSPORT has learned. With teams beginning to hold discussions about how best to prepare for the big change in 2014 regulations, there is a growing consensus about the benefit of holding at least one test in the warmer conditions of the Middle East

Marquez admits expectations exceeded

April 22nd, 2013

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Marquez admits expectations exceeded

Marc Marquez admits his opening to his rookie MotoGP campaign has exceeded all his expectations. The 20-year-old followed up a podium on his grand prix debut with victory at Austin , in the process becoming the youngest winner in the sport’s history. He also moved into a share of the championship lead, level on points with last year’s champion Jorge Lorenzo

Ducati admits Austin will be tough

April 16th, 2013

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Ducati admits Austin will be tough

Ducati admits it will arrive at Austin on the back foot following its decision to skip MotoGP’s pre-season test at the Texan track. While Honda and Yamaha’s factory riders completed a collective 10 days of running in March, Ducati’s sole experience comes via Nicky Hayden’s brief run around the circuit on a street bike. Following the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix, where Andrea Dovizioso and Hayden were seventh and eighth respectively, Ducati team manager Vittoriano Guareschi acknowledged his team faces a difficult weekend.

Yamaha not daunted by Honda US pace

April 16th, 2013

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Yamaha not daunted by Honda US pace

Jorge Lorenzo and Valentino Rossi insist Yamaha has not given up on victory at Austin despite Honda’s domination of pre-season testing at the Texan circuit. Marc Marquez put Honda on top on all three days of March running , with Lorenzo half a second and Rossi more than 1.1s in arrears.

Marquez: podium on debut a dream

April 7th, 2013

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Marquez: podium on debut a dream

Marc Marquez said he gave everything he had to fend off Valentino Rossi in the 2013 MotoGP season opener in Qatar, but was still overjoyed to manage a podium on his debut. Despite dropping to eighth at the first corner, reigning Moto2 champion and Losail practice pacesetter Marquez was able to claw his way up to second place ahead of Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa

Rossi thrilled to prove his pace

April 7th, 2013

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Rossi thrilled to prove his pace

The ecstatic Valentino Rossi thanked Yamaha for giving him a second chance in MotoGP after he battled to second in Qatar on his return to the team. Rossi had only qualified sixth, and although he jumped to fourth on the first lap, he found himself back in eighth soon afterwards when he slid off the road trying to pass Andrea Dovizioso’s Ducati. He was able to battle back to claim second from Honda’s star rookie Marc Marquez with two laps to go, completing a Yamaha one-two behind the dominant Jorge Lorenzo.

Espargaro beats Redding in thriller

April 7th, 2013

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Espargaro beats Redding in thriller

Pol Espargaro resisted enormous pressure from a dogged Scott Redding to win the Moto2 season-opener in Qatar.

Salom breaks clear for Qatar win

April 7th, 2013

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Salom breaks clear for Qatar win

Luis Salom took a beautifully-judged victory in the Moto3 season-opener in Qatar on his debut for new team Ajo. Maverick Vinales shrugged off his hand injury from testing to secure second in a photo-finish with Alex Rins.

Crutchlow not expecting podium

April 6th, 2013

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Crutchlow not expecting podium

Cal Crutchlow is not expecting to turn his second place on the Qatar Grand Prix grid into a podium finish in Sunday’s MotoGP season opener. The Tech 3 Yamaha rider equalled the best qualifying performance of his grand prix career in qualifying at Losail, only missing out on a maiden pole position to world champion Jorge Lorenzo . But despite starting ahead of the second factory Yamaha of Valentino Rossi and the works Hondas of Dani Pedrosa and Marc Marquez, the Briton still thinks he will be shuffled backwards during the race

Salom on Moto3 pole in Qatar

April 6th, 2013

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Salom on Moto3 pole in Qatar

Luis Salom took his maiden Moto3 pole position in a dramatic finale to qualifying for the season-opening Qatar Grand Prix. The 21-year-old Spaniard hit the front on his Ajo KTM with five minutes remaining, knocking Alex Rins’ Monlau-run KTM down to second. Salom, last year’s championship runner-up, then lost the top spot himself to Maverick Vinales, who became the first man to dip below the 2m08s barrier in the session.

Smith: MotoGP harder than expected

April 5th, 2013

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Smith: MotoGP harder than expected

Tech 3 Yamaha’s rookie Bradley Smith says the first two days in Qatar have opened his eyes to the demands of MotoGP. Moto2 graduate Smith was thrilled to get straight into QP2 at Losail thanks to his ninth place in third practice , and to be within 0.8 seconds of pacesetter Marc Marquez as he did so.

Yamaha unsure over new chassis

April 5th, 2013

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Yamaha unsure over new chassis

Jorge Lorenzo says Yamaha will wait until Saturday before deciding whether to race its new chassis in Qatar, as he feels there is little to choose between the two designs. The reigning MotoGP champion was second behind Honda’s rookie Marc Marquez in both Friday practice sessions

Rossi hails Marquez’s performance

April 5th, 2013

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Valentino Rossi says the advantage Marc Marquez held over his fellow Honda riders in Friday MotoGP practice in Qatar proves that the Spanish rookie is a serious threat to the establishment. Marquez was fastest in both Friday sessions at Losail, while his factory Honda team-mate Dani Pedrosa struggled for pace, failing to get into the top five in either session. Rossi said Marquez had benefited from slipstreaming his Yamaha in practice two, but that his pace was real

Marquez denies Lorenzo in practice

April 5th, 2013

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Marquez denies Lorenzo in practice

Marc Marquez deposed Jorge Lorenzo for the top spot by just one thousandth of a second in the dying moments of MotoGP practice three in Qatar.

Marquez jumps ahead in practice two

April 5th, 2013

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Marquez jumps ahead in practice two

MotoGP rookie Marc Marquez headed the second free practice session for the Qatar Grand Prix with a blistering lap late in proceedings at Losail. The reigning Moto2 champion, who is stepping up to the top class with the factory Honda squad this year, languished down in the lower reaches of the top 10 for most of the session and twice ran wide at Turn 1 early on. But with just four minutes to go he pumped in a lap of 1m56.477s to knock world champion Jorge Lorenzo off the top spot with the best time of the weekend so far.

Marquez: overconfidence dangerous

April 3rd, 2013

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Marquez: overconfidence dangerous

Marc Marquez says it is dangerous to expect too much from his MotoGP debut in Qatar, even if he believes victory is not impossible. The 2012 Moto2 champion said maintaining a modest approach would be crucial to his debut race weekend, even though his scintillating pre-season form has garnered praise throughout the MotoGP paddock. “Sure, it will be difficult [to win],” he told reporters at the Losail track