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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.

HVM Status joins ELMS for Imola

May 10th, 2013

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HVM Status joins ELMS for Imola

The HVM Status GP squad has bolstered the LMP2 entry for the next round of the European Le Mans Series and could compete in the remainder of the championship. Status has entered its Lola-Judd/BMW B12/80 for the Imola ELMS race on April 19 ahead of its second participation in the Le Mans 24 Hours in June. Silverstone-based Status, which linked up with former IndyCar team HVM over the winter, had planned a full World Endurance Championship campaign, but was forced to pull out in April after failing to find the necessary funding.

WEC qualifying system tweaked

May 3rd, 2013

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WEC qualifying system tweaked

The controversial aggregate qualifying system introduced for this year’s World Endurance Championship has been tweaked with immediate effect. The principles of the system, by which the grid is determined by the average time of four laps set by two drivers in each car, remain intact, but the length of the sessions has been increased. The length of the two sessions, one for the LMP1 and LMP2 and one for GTE Pro and Am, has been increased by five minutes.

Lotus: Grosjean can keep momentum

May 1st, 2013

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Lotus: Grosjean can keep momentum

Lotus is convinced that Romain Grosjean is on course to return to his best form, after ending his early season troubles with a podium in Bahrain. The Frenchman struggled in the first three races of the year with unspecified car problems , but a switch of chassis for the last race at Sakhir helped him and his team overcome the issues. Having been under the spotlight because of a troubled end to 2012 – which included a race ban for causing a pile-up at the Belgian Grand Prix – Grosjean was coming under pressure to deliver

Tomczyk/Farfus to double up

April 26th, 2013

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Tomczyk/Farfus to double up

BMW drivers Martin Tomczyk and Augusto Farfus will take part in the Brands Hatch DTM round and the Nurburgring 24 Hours over the same weekend this year. The pair have been named as part of the factory-supported Schubert Motorsport line-up for the May 19-20 event and will drive Z4 GT3s run by the German squad

Legge to race DeltaWing at Laguna

April 23rd, 2013

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Legge to race DeltaWing at Laguna

Former IndyCar and DTM driver Katherine Legge will race the DeltaWing at the next round of the American Le Mans Series at Laguna Seca next month. Legge has landed the drive with the DeltaWing Racing Cars squad alongside Briton Andy Meyrick after a successful test in the experimental prototype at Road Atlanta on Sunday

Pirelli meeting won’t bring big changes

April 23rd, 2013

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Pirelli meeting won’t bring big changes

Pirelli has told Formula 1 teams that it is unlikely to make any major changes to the tyres for the remainder of this season, ahead of a meeting in Milan on Tuesday to discuss the situation .

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

Win won’t stop Red Bull tyre complaints

April 22nd, 2013

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Win won’t stop Red Bull tyre complaints

Red Bull still wants Formula 1 tyre supplier Pirelli to change its tyres for the remainder of the season, even though it triumphed at the Bahrain Grand Prix . Sebastian Vettel extended his championship lead to 10 points with a dominant performance at Sakhir to prove that Red Bull had got on top of the more aggressive tyre compounds being used this year

Lamborghini on pole for GT return

April 20th, 2013

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Lamborghini on pole for GT return

Peter Kox took pole position for the second round of the FIA GT Series at Zolder on the debut of the Reiter Lamborghini team in the new-for-2013 championship. The Dutchman topped the times in the 10-car Superpole session with a 1m29.398s aboard the solo Reiter Lamborghini Gallardo LP560 that he shares with Slovakian Stefan Rosina. That put him just over two tenths ahead of Alvaro Parente in the best of the Sebastien Loeb Racing McLaren MP4-12Cs

Briscoe confirmed for Le Mans

April 17th, 2013

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Briscoe confirmed for Le Mans

IndyCar race winner Ryan Briscoe will make his Le Mans 24 Hours debut in June with the Level 5 Motorsports squad. Briscoe, who is without a full-time IndyCar drive this year, made his debut with the HPD-equipped LMP2 team in last month’s American Le Mans Series opener at Sebring and will now stay with the squad for the remainder of the season, as predicted by AUTOSPORT.

Rossi returns to GP2 with Caterham

April 17th, 2013

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Rossi returns to GP2 with Caterham

Alexander Rossi will return to GP2 racing after the Caterham team announced he will replace Ma Qing Hua from this weekend’s Bahrain race. American Rossi had been appointed as Caterham Formula 1 team’s reserve driver alongside Ma at the start of last month. On Wednesday, Caterham announced that Rossi will move to the GP2 squad for the remainder of the 2013 season, having missed the first race at Sepang

Magnussen gets McLaren GP duties

April 12th, 2013

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Magnussen gets McLaren GP duties

Kevin Magnussen is to fulfil third driver duties for McLaren throughout 2013 alongside Gary Paffett and Oliver Turvey. The Formula Renault 3.5 driver is taking on the reserve role at this weekend’s Chinese Grand Prix

Sato: blocking penalty ‘unlucky’

April 6th, 2013

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Sato: blocking penalty ‘unlucky’

Takuma Sato thinks he was unlucky to be dealt the qualifying penalty that has relegated him to 12th on the grid for Sunday’s IndyCar race at Barber Motorsports Park.

Auto GP first practice cancelled

April 5th, 2013

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Auto GP first practice cancelled

Heavy rain at the Marrakech circuit has caused the opening Auto GP free practice session to be cancelled.

Chandhok secures Le Mans return

April 2nd, 2013

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Chandhok secures Le Mans return

Former grand prix driver Karun Chandhok will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours in June with the Murphy Prototypes LMP2 squad. The veteran racer, who last year finished sixth overall at Le Mans with the JRM Racing HPD P1 team, has signed to drive Murphy’s ORECA-Nissan 03 with team regular Brendon Hartley and experienced US sportscar driver Mark Patterson

Vita4One withdraws from Nogaro race

March 28th, 2013

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Vita4One withdraws from Nogaro race

The Vita4One BMW squad has withdrawn from the opening round of the FIA GT Series at Nogaro this weekend. The withdrawal of the team that finished third in last year’s FIA GT1 World Championship was confirmed by series boss Stephane Ratel after its solo entry failed to show up at the circuit today ahead of first free practice on Friday

Briscoe set for Le Mans 24 Hours bow

March 18th, 2013

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Briscoe set for Le Mans 24 Hours bow

IndyCar refugee Ryan Briscoe looks set to contest the Le Mans 24 Hours for the first time this season. The former factory Porsche driver, who was left without an IndyCar drive after being released by Penske over the winter, is likely to be named as part of the Level 5 Motorsports LMP2 squad’s Le Mans line-up after a victorious debut with the team in last weekend’s Sebring 12 Hours. Team owner Scott Tucker has indicated that it is his intention to share his solo HPD ARX-03b at Le Mans with Briscoe and Marino Franchitti – a repeat of the winning Level 5 line-up at Sebring – but has so far stopped short of confirming them until he announces his plans for the remainder of the season.

Perez shrugs off McLaren tech changes

March 1st, 2013

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Perez shrugs off McLaren tech changes

Sergio Perez insists that McLaren’s chances of winning the world championship this year will not be compromised by the technical staffing shake-up caused by Paddy Lowe’s planned departure. Lowe has been moved away from McLaren’s F1 efforts for the remainder of the year ahead of an expected move to Mercedes in 2014.

Raikkonen frustrated by data issue

February 19th, 2013

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Raikkonen frustrated by data issue

Kimi Raikkonen ended day one of Barcelona Formula 1 testing frustrated as a data issue limited Lotus’s mileage. Raikkonen was second quickest, just 0.007 seconds behind pacesetter Nico Rosberg’s Mercedes

Heidfeld to ALMS with Rebellion

February 11th, 2013

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Heidfeld to ALMS with Rebellion

Former grand prix driver Nick Heidfeld and team regular Neel Jani will spearhead Rebellion Racing’s attack on the American Le Mans Series.