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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.

Analysis: tyre change tech challenges

May 15th, 2013

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Analysis: tyre change tech challenges

Pirelli’s decision to change its tyres from the Canadian Grand Prix onwards will potentially have a far-reaching effect. Tyres are an integral part of the car’s design, affecting the aerodynamics and the suspension. With changes to the construction moving back towards the 2012 tyre specification, married to the current compounds, teams will be heading back to their computer screens to re-optimise their cars around the modified tyres

Lotus rues Grosjean’s suspension fault

May 12th, 2013

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Lotus rues Grosjean’s suspension fault

Lotus is sure Romain Grosjean had the pace to help prevent it losing second in the constructors’ championship after the Spanish Grand Prix had his suspension not failed. Grosjean was running ninth in the first stint, but had to park with a problem on his car’s right rear on lap eight

Loeb takes secure lead into final day

May 3rd, 2013

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Loeb takes secure lead into final day

Sebastien Loeb will start the final day of Rally Argentina with a 39.8-second lead over Sebastien Ogier. A mistake on SS7 and puncture on SS8 left Ogier half a minute adrift of Loeb and convinced him to settle for second place . Ogier’s Volkswagen outpaced Loeb’s Citroen by half a second in their head-to-head on the evening superspecial that closed Friday’s action, but that made scant impact on the overall standings

Debris caused Hamilton’s tyre drama

April 20th, 2013

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Debris caused Hamilton’s tyre drama

Lewis Hamilton’s left-rear tyre failure during Saturday morning practice for the Bahrain Grand Prix, which led to his five-place grid penalty , was caused by metal debris, according to Pirelli. The problem led to suspension and gearbox damage, as confirmed by a Mercedes statement. This forced Mercedes to change Hamilton’s gearbox, which was being used for the fourth weekend of its run of five, leading to the penalty.

Ogier feared glitch would cost victory

April 15th, 2013

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Ogier feared glitch would cost victory

Sebastien Ogier feared his bid for Rally of Portugal victory would be ended by the technical problems that struck his Volkswagen on Sunday morning. The Frenchman had built up a lead of more than a minute over everyone but team-mate Jari-Matti Latvala heading into the final four stages, but a technical problem – subsequently diagnosed as a slipping clutch – meant he surrendered huge chunks of time on stage 12. With no service to separate that SS12 and the following 52-kilometre stage 13, and with Mikko Hirvonen rapidly closing, Ogier’s lead looked increasingly precarious.

Hyundai reveals updated WRC car

March 5th, 2013

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Hyundai reveals updated WRC car

Hyundai Motorsport revealed its latest specification i20 WRC at the Geneva Motorshow on Tuesday.

Allmendinger back to NASCAR

February 26th, 2013

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Allmendinger back to NASCAR

AJ Allmendinger will return to the NASCAR Sprint Cup to rejoin Phoenix Racing in this weekend’s Phoenix round. Although Allmendinger looks increasingly likely to contest at least a handful of IndyCar races this season for former NASCAR employer Penske, he will replace Regan Smith in James Finch’s Cup squad in Arizona

Lotus: No fears of test drama repeat

February 11th, 2013

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Lotus: No fears of test drama repeat

Lotus is heading to next week’s second pre-season Formula 1 test at Barcelona confident there will be no repeat of the suspension dramas that forced it to withdraw last year. After once again showing promising form in the first test at Jerez, Lotus needs no reminding that its pre-season preparations in 2012 suffered a major setback when it had to quit running at Barcelona because of suspension failure

US Saturday quotes: Toro Rosso

November 17th, 2012

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Jean-Eric Vergne – 14th: “I think the team has worked well so far this weekend to produce a car that seems a bit more competitive than in the past few races. It doesn’t mean much that I beat my team-mate today, because he had some difficulties in the first session. Maybe I could have got a bit more out of the car this afternoon, perhaps found a couple of tenths

Solberg insists incident unavoidable

November 9th, 2012

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Solberg insists incident unavoidable

Petter Solberg insists he was not to blame for the suspension damage that ended his chances of winning Ford’s final rally as a factory World Rally team.

Major set-up changes for Vettel

November 4th, 2012

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Major set-up changes for Vettel

Red Bull has made major changes to the set-up of Sebastian Vettel’s car ahead of the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix in a bid to help his chances of charging through the field. The world champion will start from the pitlane at Yas Marina after his team elected to remove his RB8 from parc ferme overnight in the wake of the fuel cell problems that led to his exclusion from qualifying . The team claimed that it had chosen to take the car out of parc ferme to get to the bottom of why the FIA was unable to extract the mandatory one-litre sample of fuel it requires for post-qualifying checks.

Hamilton concedes title out of reach now

October 14th, 2012

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Hamilton concedes title out of reach now

Lewis Hamilton believes the rear suspension problem that ruined his Korean Grand Prix has ruled him out of contention for the 2012 Formula 1 title. Hamilton could only finish 10th at Yeongam , and was informed by his McLaren team after the race that his car had broken a rear anti-roll bar near the end of the first stint. The result leaves him 62 points behind race winner and new championship leader Sebastian Vettel with four rounds to go.

Pedrosa delighted with early progress

October 12th, 2012

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Pedrosa delighted with early progress

A buoyant Dani Pedrosa said he was delighted with Honda’s progress on the opening day of MotoGP’s Japanese Grand Prix. Victorious in three of the past four races – with only a first-lap crash preventing him from challenging at Misano – Pedrosa entered Motegi trying to further deplete Jorge Lorenzo’s 38-point championship lead

McLaren not aware of gearbox problem

September 23rd, 2012

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McLaren not aware of gearbox problem

McLaren had little warning that Lewis Hamilton’s gearbox was about to fail in the Singapore Grand Prix – as it denied suggestions it knew of an issue heading into the race. Hamilton retired from the lead of the race on lap 23 at the Marina Bay circuit after finding himself unable to select a gear.

Hirvonen accepts blame for poor pace

August 24th, 2012

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Hirvonen accepts blame for poor pace

Mikko Hirvonen believes he will have to rethink his driving style to get on the pace in Germany. The Finn is only sixth after day one of Rally Deutschland, 48.9 seconds behind his rally-leading Citroen team-mate Sebastien Loeb

Keselowski fears Allmendinger tainted

July 15th, 2012

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Keselowski fears Allmendinger tainted

Brad Keselowski believes his Penske team-mate AJ Allmendinger faces a tough road ahead following his positive test for a stimulant, which led to his suspension from NASCAR. Speaking for the first time about the issue, Keselowski said that regardless of the result of a ‘B’ sample test, which Allmendinger has already requested, his team-mate’s reputation could be damaged beyond repair.

Lorenzo buoyed by ‘excellent’ start

July 13th, 2012

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Lorenzo buoyed by ‘excellent’ start

Jorge Lorenzo has lauded Yamaha’s ‘excellent beginning’ to the Italian Grand Prix at Mugello, as he bids to end Honda’s current run of two straight victories. After being taken out at the first corner in the Dutch TT, Lorenzo was then unable to match the works Hondas at the Sachsenring – even if he was able to extend his championship lead due to Casey Stoner’s last-lap crash.

Allmendinger fails drugs test

July 8th, 2012

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Allmendinger fails drugs test

AJ Allmendinger has been temporarily suspended from NASCAR following a positive test for forbidden substances.

E-tron drivers say fuel will be critical

June 14th, 2012

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E-tron drivers say fuel will be critical

Marcel Fassler and Benoit Treluyer say that the Audi e-tron is faster and more flexible than the Ultra, but that the race performance will be heavily influenced by the fuel consumption of the hybrid. The 2011 Le Mans 24 Hours winners told AUTOSPORT that the Ultra has an advantage due to its optimised weight distribution but that the extra power and traction of the e-tron should make it ultimately faster as long as the drivers can make the e-tron’s 58 litre fuel capacity last for the same number of laps as the Ultra’s 60 litres. “They are very close and hopefully we can do the same number of laps with a bit better performance as we have the extra power on the exit of a few corners,” said Treluyer.

Bratt open to further BTCC outings

June 12th, 2012

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Bratt open to further BTCC outings

Will Bratt has not ruled out more tin-top racing after making a strong British Touring Car debut at Oulton Park last weekend.