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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.

TDS wins Imola ELMS round

May 18th, 2013

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Reigning European Le Mans Series champions Mathias Beche and Pierre Thiriet claimed victory in the Imola 3 Hours for the TDS Racing squad. Beche, who was racing the team’s ORECA-Nissan 03 for the first time this season, and Thiriet were on top in a closely-fought battle with the Jota Sport when the Simon Dolan lost time when he spun the British team’s Zytek-Nissan Z11SN in the final hour

Lombard back to Le Mans with Morand

May 17th, 2013

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Lombard back to Le Mans with Morand

Frenchman Olivier Lombard will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours with the Swiss Morand Racing team in his bid to repeat his LMP2 triumph of 2011. Lombard, who raced with Morand when it was known as Hope PoleVision in the 2010 Le Mans Series, has signed to drive the team’s Morgan-Judd/BMW LMP2 for a one-off appearance at the 24 Hours on June 22/23. The 22-year-old, who won the P2 class at Le Mans with the Greaves Zytek squad in 2011, will race the car alongside full-season drivers Franck Mailleux and Natacha Gachnang

Rossi joins Greaves for Le Mans

May 15th, 2013

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Rossi joins Greaves for Le Mans

Caterham Formula 1 reserve driver Alexander Rossi will race a Greaves Motorsport Zytek LMP2 at the Le Mans 24 Hours in the colours of the grand prix team. The deal between the F1 team and Greaves means that the American driver, a frontrunner in GP2 this year with the Caterham Racing squad, will line up alongside three-time Le Mans class winner Tom Kimber-Smith and former American Le Mans Series LMPC champion Eric Lux in one of the two Greaves Zytek-Nissan Z11SNs.

Turvey starts ELMS career with pole

April 13th, 2013

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McLaren Formula 1 test and development driver Oliver Turvey claimed pole position on his prototype debut for the opening round of the European Le Mans Series.

Mailleux lands Morand Le Mans seat

April 12th, 2013

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Mailleux lands Morand Le Mans seat

French prototype driver Franck Mailleux will return to the Le Mans 24 Hours for the fifth time in June after securing a full-season drive with Morand Racing LMP2 squad. Mailleux, whose seat in the team’s Morgan-Judd/BMW LMP2 was initially only confirmed for this weekend’s Silverstone European Le Mans Series opener, will now complete the five-round championship alongside Natacha Gachnang in addition to racing in the 24 Hours. Mailleux, who finished second in P2 at Le Mans with the Signatech team in 2011, said: “This is a big relief after a tricky winter.

Signature vows to return to F3 in 2014

April 1st, 2013

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Signature vows to return to F3 in 2014

The ultra-successful Signature Formula 3 squad will return to the category in the European championship next season, the team’s boss has vowed. Philippe Sinault, whose organisation also includes the Signatech sportscar team, aimed to return to single-seaters in this season’s new stand-alone European Formula 3 Championship after a year away. A focus on sportscars resulted in Signature postponing its F3 comeback, but Sinault is adamant that the team will return in 2014

FIA reveals Formula 4 plan

March 21st, 2013

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FIA reveals Formula 4 plan

The FIA has drawn up plans for a new global junior single-seater formula to start in 2014. The international governing body wants to introduce a new national-level championship in all affiliated countries.

Renault unveils plans for Alpine brand

March 8th, 2013

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Renault unveils plans for Alpine brand

Renault has unveiled its plans to take the famous Alpine marque back to the Le Mans 24 Hours, 35 years after its outright victory in the French enduro. The Dieppe-based manufacturer, which built the Renault-Alpine A442B that triumphed at Le Mans in 1978 with Didier Pironi and Jean-Pierre Jassaud driving, has confirmed that it is linking with the French Signatech team for an attack on the LMP2 class at the 24 Hours and in the European Le Mans Series. Signatech’s ORECA 03 chassis will be branded as an Alpine and will continue to run Nissan’s P2 V8 powerplant

Signature poised for F3 return

December 14th, 2012

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Signature poised for F3 return

Signature is evaluating a return to Formula 3 next year in the revamped European championship. The European F3 Championship, which is replacing the F3 Euro Series as the continent’s top championship for the category, revealed on Friday that Philippe Sinault’s outfit has expressed an interest in competing in 2013.

H12: Audi 1-2-3 at halfway point

June 17th, 2012

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H12: Audi 1-2-3 at halfway point

Marcel Fassler’s lead has been reduced to just over 40s in the #1 Audi as eight-time winner Tom Kristensen closed in on his team-mate through the halfway point in the 2012 Le Mans 24 Hours race. Kristensen put in a dynamite sequence of laps as he chased Fassler, regularly taking 2s per lap out the Swiss driver’s lead

Mailleux stays with Signatech in WEC

February 13th, 2012

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Mailleux stays with Signatech in WEC

Franck Mailleux will remain with the Signatech squad for this year’s World Endurance Championship. The 26-year-old Frenchman helped the outfit to win the LMP2 teams’ title in last year’s Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, and will now form part of a revised three-driver line-up in the team’s lone ORECA 03-Nissan. “I am delighted to be able to continue my endurance career with Signatech-Nissan,” Mailleux said.

Ordonez joins Greaves for Le Mans

January 30th, 2012

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Ordonez joins Greaves for Le Mans

Lucas Ordonez has joined Greaves Motorsport for this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours and Le Mans Series. The 26-year-old Spaniard will drive one of Greaves’ Nissan-engined Zytek prototypes as the British squad bids to win the LMS and repeat its LMP2 class victory at Le Mans. Ordonez, a graduate of the Playstation GT Academy, will share the Zytek with Martin and Alex Brundle at Le Mans, while Tom Kimber-Smith and Brundle Jr will be his co-drivers in the LMS.

Pecom announces WEC programme

December 19th, 2011

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Pecom announces WEC programme

AF Corse’s Pecom Racing arm will enter the new World Endurance Championship next year with an LMP2 ORECA-Nissan.

Davidson/Bourdais win in China

November 13th, 2011

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Davidson/Bourdais win in China

The Peugeot 908 driven by Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Bourdais came out on top ahead of the sister car shared by Franck Montagny and Stephane Sarrazin in the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup finale at Zhuhai after another race in which Audi failed to challenge all the way to the end. The only Audi R18 TDI to make the finish slowly faded and ended up more than a lap down on the winners in the hands of Timo Bernhard and Marcel Fassler. The Peugeot and Audi LMP1 turbodiesels battled hard in the early stages of the the six-hour event in China, but as temperatures rose the French car came into its own and its German rival started to struggle

Peugeot wins Petit Le Mans

October 2nd, 2011

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Peugeot wins Petit Le Mans

Peugeot claimed a third consecutive victory in the Petit Le Mans enduro at Road Atlanta. The 908 turbodiesel LMP1 driven by Franck Montagny, Stephane Sarrazin and Alex Wurz claimed victory in the 1000-mile event by five laps after both Audi R18 TDIs retired. The German manufacturer’s challenge disappeared early in the eighth hour when Romain Dumas tangled with a Porsche GTC class car as he was mounting a push for the lead.

Peugeot in front at halfway point

October 1st, 2011

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Peugeot in front at halfway point

The remaining factory Peugeot led the Petit Le Mans 1000-mile enduro at Road Atlanta at half-distance.

Davidson takes Petit Le Mans pole

September 30th, 2011

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Davidson takes Petit Le Mans pole

Peugeot driver Anthony Davidson claimed his second straight pole for the Petit Le Mans enduro at Road Atlanta. The Briton secured the top spot in qualifying on his first flying lap aboard the Peugeot 908 turbodiesel he shares with Sebastien Bourdais and Simon Pagenaud. His time of 1m07.428s put him just over a tenth clear of Audi driver Timo Bernhard.

Pagenaud quickest in night session

September 30th, 2011

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Simon Pagenaud put Peugeot on top right at the end of another extremely tight practice session for the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. The Frenchman lapped in 1m09.027s with his final lap of the two-hour night session, allowing him to beat Audi’s Romain Dumas by just 0.080 seconds.

Sarrazin on provisional pole for Peugeot

June 8th, 2011

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Sarrazin on provisional pole for Peugeot

Peugeot sprang a surprise in tonight’s two-hour qualifying practice session as Stephane Sarrazin set provisional pole long after it had seemed the order was settled in favour of Audi. The German carmaker was provisionally 1-2-3 after pushing hardest when track conditions were optimal during the first 30 minutes of the session, but Sarrazin undercut all three R18s by nine tenths of a second with a sensational lap half an hour from the chequered flag

ORECA takes surprise Sebring win

March 20th, 2011

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ORECA takes surprise Sebring win

The ORECA Peugeot squad beat the factory cars to claim victory in the Sebring 12 Hours on Saturday.