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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.

Ostberg to attempt world record jump

March 14th, 2013

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Ostberg to attempt world record jump

World Rally Championship front-runner Mads Ostberg is lining up a world record attempt for the longest jump attempted in a car.

Ogier believes Citroen is missing Loeb

March 13th, 2013

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Ogier believes Citroen is missing Loeb

Rally Mexico winner Sebastien Ogier says Citroen’s performance last week highlights how much the champion team is missing Sebastien Loeb. Loeb will only contest four rounds of this year’s series – and last week’s Leon- based event was the first event the nine-time champion missed

Ogier gets time back from officials

March 10th, 2013

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Ogier gets time back from officials

Sebastien Ogier’s Rally Mexico lead increased to three and a half minutes before Sunday’s action started as he was given time back by the rally organisers to compensate for Saturday’s gate incident. The Volkswagen driver had to come to a halt on the Otates stage to open a gate that had been closed in his path after the other cars had come through

Ogier leads into Saturday in Mexico

March 9th, 2013

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Ogier leads into Saturday in Mexico

Sebastien Ogier brought his lead over Mads Ostberg up to 33 seconds as he won the two superspecials that closed Friday’s Rally Mexico action.

Latvala drama raises fears for Ogier

March 8th, 2013

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Latvala drama raises fears for Ogier

Volkswagen will be monitoring the suspension components on Rally Mexico leader Sebastien Ogier’s car following the retirement of Jari-Matti Latvala’s sister Polo R WRC on Friday morning . Latvala retired on just the third gravel corner of the rally after hitting a stone on the Cubilete test.

Analysis: the rally tests facing Kubica

March 4th, 2013

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Analysis: the rally tests facing Kubica

When Robert Kubica signed up to contest the Ronde di Andora in February 2011, the organisers of the event must have been delighted with all the potential publicity of having a former grand prix winner on the entry list. Then his Skoda Fabia S2000 drifted wide on a slippery right-hander, hit the wall and the barrier. The Ronde di Andora got its 15 minutes of fame and Formula 1 has since been deprived the kind of talent which would almost certainly have been a force for the world championship by now

No DTM drive for Kubica in 2013

February 20th, 2013

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No DTM drive for Kubica in 2013

Robert Kubica will not join the DTM this season after Mercedes announced a six-car 2013 line-up with European Formula 3 champion Daniel Juncadella in the vacant slot that could have gone to the Pole. Kubica had tested for Mercedes earlier this month and had been linked to a DTM race seat, although a date clash with Rally Poland – a key event in his mooted European Rally Championship programme – had been an issue. Mercedes has slimmed down its DTM programme to six cars for 2013.

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.

Nikara gets Prodrive Mini for Portugal

February 11th, 2013

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Nikara gets Prodrive Mini for Portugal

Jarkko Nikara will be back in the World Rally Championship when he competes with a Prodrive-built Mini John Cooper Works WRC in Rally Portugal. The Finn took part in Rally Sweden last weekend, but endured a difficult event and crashed out early on after hitting problems before qualifying. He rejoined the rally under Rally 2 rules, but finished down in 25th position, nearly one hour behind winner Sebastien Ogier

Ogier storms clear in Sweden

February 8th, 2013

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Ogier storms clear in Sweden

Volkswagen’s Sebastien Ogier extended his Rally Sweden lead to 32 seconds over his former Citroen team-mate Sebastien Loeb by winning all three stages on the event’s second loop.

Hirvonen just waiting for power stage

February 8th, 2013

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Hirvonen just waiting for power stage

Mikko Hirvonen will focus his Rally Sweden attentions on the power stage now as he tries to salvage three points from the second round of the World Rally Championship. The Citroen star rolled his DS3 WRC on the first stage of Friday morning , dropping 15 minutes on the stage and a further 10 minutes on the next two. “We dropped time in the next stages because the air intake became frozen with snow and the engine went to safe mode,” said Hirvonen.

Ogier and VW top Sweden qualifying

February 7th, 2013

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Ogier and VW top Sweden qualifying

Sebastien Ogier continued Volkswagen’s impressive start to its debut season with the Polo R WRC as he set the Rally Sweden qualifying pace. Running on snow for the first time, the Frenchman’s Polo was quickest through the 2.4-mile stage by 0.9 seconds on the outskirts of Hagfors

Latvala: Sweden first big test for VW

February 7th, 2013

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Latvala: Sweden first big test for VW

Volkswagen driver Jari-Matti Latvala says this week’s Rally Sweden will provide the Polo R WRC with its first real test competitive engine test. The team made a sensational debut on last month’s Monte Carlo Rally , when Sebastien Ogier placed the Polo second overall, but Latvala reckons the super-fast Swedish stages will really test the motor

Hirvonen sure of fresh start in Sweden

February 2nd, 2013

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Hirvonen sure of fresh start in Sweden

Mikko Hirvonen is confident he can get his 2013 World Rally title challenge underway properly by winning Rally Sweden next week. Citroen’s Finn was expected to lead the team’s championship assault this year now that erstwhile number one Sebastien Loeb was in semi-retirement

Loeb stretches Monte lead

January 18th, 2013

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Loeb stretches Monte lead

Sebastien Loeb continued to stretch his Monte Carlo Rally lead on Friday afternoon, while battles behind him closed up.

Loeb still on top in Monte Carlo

January 18th, 2013

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Loeb still on top in Monte Carlo

Sebastien Loeb had time to enjoy the scenery as he maintained his Monte Carlo Rally advantage on Friday morning. The world champion took a cautious approach to the snowy St Jean en Royans stage, which he described as “the most beautiful of the rally”, and was still fastest by 1.5 seconds over Sebastien Ogier.

Flying Novikov ‘can go faster still’

January 17th, 2013

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Flying Novikov ‘can go faster still’

Qatar M-Sport driver Evgeny Novikov has promised there is more speed to come from his Ford, following his stunning morning on day two of the Monte Carlo Rally.

WRC teams furious over timing issue

January 16th, 2013

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WRC teams furious over timing issue

World Rally Championship manufacturers have reacted angrily to the timing and tracking issues that caused major confusion on day one of the Monte Carlo season-opener. Spanish firm Sistemas Integrales de Telecomunicacion (SIT) replaced the WRC’s long-standing timing and tracking provider Stage One Technology for this year, but immediately hit problems.

Timing issues leave WRC in the dark

January 16th, 2013

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Timing issues leave WRC in the dark

The Monte Carlo Rally running order is a mystery at the end of day one of the World Rally Championship season-opener with a timing problem leaving teams and fans in the dark. Sistemas Integrales de Telecomunicacion (SIT) took over from Stage One Technology as the WRC’s timing and tracking supplier for 2013. An issue with communication on stage three meant a slew of unreliable times as the official system registered gaps of several minutes between lead cars.

Snowy Monte prospect thrills Loeb

January 15th, 2013

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Snowy Monte prospect thrills Loeb

Sebastien Loeb says he is thrilled that his final Monte Carlo Rally looks set to be the first heavily snow-affected Monte of his career. The Frenchman, who is the most successful driver in the history of the French Alpine classic with six wins from nine starts, admitted to a strange feeling at the start of what will be his last ever season in the WRC