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David Phillips
Editor and ChiefDavid 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 WriterChris 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 Writer19 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 WriterJason 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 WriterI 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 WriterI 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 WriterI 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 WriterNathan'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 WriterBorn 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 WriterJordan 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 WriterBorn 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 WriterKenneth 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 WriterI 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 WriterAfter 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.
Webber: Q3 mess ‘no one’s fault’
October 8th, 2011
Mark Webber described the Suzuka Q3 traffic jam involving his Red Bull, Lewis Hamilton’s McLaren and Michael Schumacher’s Mercedes as an unfortunate accident of timing, but nobody’s fault.
Sauber uses first curfew exception
October 8th, 2011
Sauber has used up one of its four curfew exceptions at the Japanese Grand Prix after staff stayed at the track late on Friday to work on the latest car updates. The Swiss team introduced a big development upgrade to its car for the Suzuka event as it bids to hold on to seventh place in the constructors’ championship. And in a bid to make the most of the potential at Kamui Kobayashi’s home event, Sauber elected to use one of its four curfews – with only four races remaining after this weekend’s GP
Sauber pleased with upgrades so far
October 7th, 2011
Sauber technical director James Key is pleased with the way that his team’s major upgrade package performed during Friday practice at Suzuka. The package includes new front and rear wings, as well as brake ducts, turning vanes, sidepod deflectors and floor modifications.
Senna: Renault back to normal in Japan
October 6th, 2011
Bruno Senna is hopeful Renault will be back to its “normal” level of performance in Japan following a difficult race in Singapore. Both Senna and team-mate Vitaly Petrov struggled during the Marina Bay event last week, with Senna finishing in 15th and Petrov in 17th. The Brazilian, however, believes Renault can expect to be back on form thanks to nature of the Suzuka circuit
Trulli forced to use old power steering
October 6th, 2011
Jarno Trulli will have switch to the old power steering system that he blamed for his struggles in the first half of the season for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix. The Italian is unable to use the new system, which was introduced at July’s Hungarian Grand Prix, because it cannot stand up to the steering load created at the Suzuka circuit. “Unfortunately, here I have to use the old specification of power steering, which I don’t like,” Trulli told AUTOSPORT
Startline DRS zone for Suzuka
October 6th, 2011
The FIA has announced that there will be a single DRS zone at the Suzuka circuit for this weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix.
iRacing.com Petit Le Mans Presented by NVIDIA
by David Phillips on October 3rd, 2011
Within hours of Franck Montagny, Stephane Sarrazin and Alexander Wurz driving their Peugeot 908 to victory in a 2011 Petit Le Mans that featured 52 cars in six classes, iRacers took part in a 2011 iRacing.com Petit Le Mans Presented by NVIDIA featuring more 320 cars in three classes: HPD ARX01, Corvette C6.R and Ford GT. Like the American Le Mans Series’ event, the iRacing Petit Le Mans Presented by NVIDIA was staged on the 12 turn, 2.54 mile Road Atlanta course and proved a challenging test of speed and endurance for sim racers in all classes as they raced their immediate competition while keeping an eye out for the other classes running at varying speeds. Norbert Sulzer (DE-AT-CH) led Roderic Kreunen (Benelux) and Andrew Slocombe (Florida) home in the [...]
Major update for Sauber in Japan
September 30th, 2011
Sauber will introduce a major update package to its car at next weekend’s Japanese Grand Prix as it bids to get itself back into a regular points-scoring position. The Hinwil-based outfit has slipped behind Force India in recent races, having scored just one point since the German Grand Prix.
Q and A: Kobayashi on the Japanese GP
September 27th, 2011
Conducted and provided by Sauber’s press office.
McLaren hopes to keep Vettel waiting
September 26th, 2011
McLaren is still holding out hope that it can delay Red Bull Racing’s world championship party celebrations even longer, as Sebastian Vettel targets clinching his world championship title in Japan. Vettel’s triumph in the Singapore Grand Prix was not enough to secure him the crown, thanks to Jenson Button’s second place finish. And although it is highly unlikely that Button will win every remaining race, with Vettel outside of the points, as is required for Button to win the championship, McLaren team principal Martin Whitmarsh says he will take satisfaction in simply delaying Red Bull Racing’s crowning moment
iRacer Profile – David Burnett
by David Phillips on September 24th, 2011
When it comes to sim racing, Club England’s David Burnett is far from a one trick pony. Although he is most active in the the Classic Lotus GP series, he owns a very, er, catholic collection of iRacing wheels, from his Lotus 79, Dallara IndyCar and Star Mazda to HPD ARX01, Chevrolet Impala Class B and Corvette C6.R as well as a virtual fleet Fords (or is that a fleet of virtual Fords?): Ford GT, Ford Mustang FR500S and Ford Falcon FG01 V8. But when it comes to road course v oval, there’s no denying that Burnett is a dyed in the wool road racer. In more than two years of iRacing, Burnett has nearly 360 official race starts to his credit, four (4) of which have been on ovals. [...]
Pirelli announces Japan/Korea tyres
September 16th, 2011
Pirelli has nominated the tyre compounds for the Japanese and Korean Grands Prix, and has elected to take different approaches for the two races. With the Suzuka circuit putting high demands on tyres, thanks to fast corners like Spoon and 130R, Pirelli has chosen to bring the medium and soft compounds for that race. For Korea, which is much slower and has a lower-grip surface, Pirelli will take the soft and supersoft tyres – the same nominations used in Monaco, Canada, Hungary and Singapore.
Honda suggests Japanese GP switch
August 23rd, 2011
This year’s Japanese Grand Prix could be saved by switching the event from Motegi to Suzuka, according to Honda MotoGP team principal Shuhei Nakamoto. The race was plunged into doubt following the devastating Tsunami and earthquake that hit the north-west of the country in March and forced the race to be postponed from April 24 to October 2
Two New Cars and Two New Tracks Coming to iRacing Soon
June 30th, 2011
The release of iRacing 2.0 may still be a few weeks away, but iRacers can get a jump on some of the content thanks to iRacing’s first ever Four-for-All. That’s right, four exciting features of iRacing 2.0 –Iowa Speedway and Suzuka International Racing course, the Ford GT and HPD ARX 01c – are now available for pre-sale. That’s one of America’s finest new speedways, a world class road circuit, an iconic GT machine and one of the fastest sports prototypes ever built. In other words, something for everyone! The Ford GT is a modern version of the car that defeated mighty Ferrari at Le Mans in the 1960s. How modern, you ask? The iRacing Ford GT is a digital version of the car that David and Andrea Robertson and David Murry piloted to third [...]
Liuzzi: Force India seat is safe
December 14th, 2010
Vitantonio Liuzzi thinks his place at Force India is ‘safe’ for next season, despite speculation suggesting that he will have to move aside for either Nico Hulkenberg or Paul di Resta.
Webber insists injury was not an issue
December 8th, 2010
Mark Webber has defended his decision not to tell his Red Bull Racing team about the shoulder injury he suffered prior to the Japanese Grand Prix, insisting that the incident had no impact on his performance in the final races. The Australian revealed in a book he has just published in Australia that he had suffered a fracture to his right shoulder in a mountain bike crash between the Singapore and Japanese races. Webber was leading the world championship at the time, but was ultimately pushed back to third behind Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso
Sony reveals Newey’s new creation
October 28th, 2010
Sony has officially revealed the latest creation from F1 design guru Adrian Newey, with the unveiling of the fantasy racing car that will be included in the Gran Turismo 5 game. The X1 Prototype, designed by Newey in conjunction with Gran Turismo creators Polyphony Digital, was shaken down virtually by Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel at the Suzuka circuit
Alonso says Red Bull still favourite
October 22nd, 2010
Fernando Alonso believes Red Bull is still favourite for the Korean GP, although the Ferrari driver reckons its advantage will not be as big as at Suzuka. Sebastian Vettel led team-mate Mark Webber to a commanding one-two in Japan two weeks ago, as the Suzuka circuit proved to be a perfect match for the Red Bull car. Alonso, who finished today’s practice session in second place behind Webber, reckons the nature of the Korean circuit should mean Red Bull is closer, but still quickest.
F-1 Teams Prefer Saturday Qualifying
October 18th, 2010
Rain pushed Formula One qualifying in Suzuka to Sunday last weekend. Teams were none too pleased about it. (Steve Etherington Photo) BLOOMINGTON, Minn