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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.

Canada race quotes: Williams

June 9th, 2013

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Valtteri Bottas – 14th: “We fought hard to try and secure some points today but ultimately we just didn’t have the pace in the car.

Canada race quotes: Toro Rosso

June 9th, 2013

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Jean-Eric Vergne – 6th: “Incredible! I’m very happy. The best result for me of course, but also the highest finishing position since Vettel’s results for the team in 2008.

Canada qualifying quotes: Williams

June 8th, 2013

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Valtteri Bottas – 3rd: It’s a great feeling to qualify in third place and the team did a really good job today. The showers made the track very slippery but this suited us as the car handled the conditions well. We were on the right tyres at the right time which was so important today.

Monaco qualifying quotes: Lotus

May 25th, 2013

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Kimi Raikkonen – 5th: “It was a difficult day today because of the weather, but it was the same for all of the drivers.

Formula 1 a ‘thinking man’s game’ now

May 1st, 2013

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Formula 1 a ‘thinking man’s game’ now

Formula 1′s high-degrading tyres have turned the sport into a ‘thinking man’s game’, reckons McLaren sporting director Sam Michael. Pirelli’s move to more aggressive rubber compounds for this year has put a higher premium on tyre management, with most teams accepting that getting on top of degradation is now the key to success

Team bosses vote Alonso as best of ’12

December 13th, 2012

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Team bosses vote Alonso as best of ’12

Fernando Alonso has been voted as the driver of the year by Formula 1′s team bosses in AUTOSPORT’s annual team principals’ top ten poll.

US Saturday quotes: Force India

November 17th, 2012

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Nico Hulkenberg – 8th: “I’m happy to get another top ten result and it’s been a good effort by the whole team, especially given where we were yesterday evening. My lap in Q3 was not too bad, but I was a little compromised by a Williams in the last couple of corners, so maybe there was a little bit more to come

Keselowski glad to ‘survive’ race

October 29th, 2012

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Keselowski glad to ‘survive’ race

Brad Keselowski is glad to have come out ‘alive’ in the championship from Sunday’s Chase round at Martinsville , despite losing the points lead to Jimmie Johnson. The Penske driver overcame a poor qualifying in which he finished 32nd to eventually break into the top ten in the deciding stages, where he made a late gamble to stay on the track when most of the leaders pitted ahead of him for fresh rubber.

Maldonado sure Williams will rebound

October 25th, 2012

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Maldonado sure Williams will rebound

Pastor Maldonado is confident that Williams has identified the problems that caused it to produce what he labeled as the team’s worst race of the season in Korea. The Grove-based outfit endured one of its least competitive weekends at Yeongam , with neither Maldonado nor team-mate Bruno Senna reaching the top ten in qualifying

Senna expects strong outing in Singapore

September 17th, 2012

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Senna expects strong outing in Singapore

Bruno Senna thinks Williams can look forward to one of its more competitive outings in Singapore this weekend. The high-downforce nature of the Marina Bay circuit should play well to the strengths of the FW34. And, after Senna scored a single point for the team at the Italian Grand Prix a fortnight ago, he is positive that an even bigger haul should be possible this time out.

Evans goes fastest in first practice

September 7th, 2012

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GP3 Series championship leader Mitch Evans set the pace in Friday’s practice for the final rounds at Monza this weekend. The 18-year-old New Zealander moved to the top of the times halfway into the 45 minute session, before dropping down the field as first Tamas Pal Kiss and then one of Evans’s title challengers Aaro Vainio went quicker.

Mallya: More luck needed for podiums

July 16th, 2012

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Mallya: More luck needed for podiums

Vijay Mallya believes his Force India team will still need some good luck before it can convert the speed it has shown in recent races into potential podium places. The Silverstone-based outfit has delivered some promising pace in the last few events, but hopes of it moving forward from its fifth and seventh places in Valencia were dashed by misfortune in the British Grand Prix. Paul di Resta was forced to retire after a first lap collision with Romain Grosjean, while Nico Hulkenberg lost out on points after his wet-weather set-up proved not ideal for the dry conditions.

McNish wary of Toyota threat

June 13th, 2012

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McNish wary of Toyota threat

Audi hybrid driver Allan McNish says he is wary of the threat Toyota poses in the Le Mans 24 Hours in spite of the fact that the Japanese manufacturer’s TS030 having not yet been raced. Toyota ran for the first time alongside rivals during the Le Mans test at the beginning of June and ended the day less than 1.5s off the pace of the three Audi R18s in front of it

Maldonado expected strong qualifying

May 12th, 2012

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Maldonado expected strong qualifying

Pastor Maldonado is not surprised to have been so fast during qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix.

Hamilton tops first practice in Bahrain

April 20th, 2012

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Hamilton tops first practice in Bahrain

Lewis Hamilton set the fastest time in the opening free practice session for the Bahrain Grand Prix ahead of world champion Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull and Paul di Resta’s Force India. In a fairly uneventful 90 minutes of running, the McLaren driver set a time of 1m33.572s in the middle of the session and remained unchallenged thereafter. As expected, the teams were greeted with warm track temperatures – 27 degrees C and rising – but just as predictable was the surface layer of sand on the asphalt that prompted one team to dismissively say the morning’s runs as nothing more than ‘dust surveys’

Di Resta doubtful of breaking into Q3

March 23rd, 2012

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Di Resta doubtful of breaking into Q3

Paul di Resta believes Force India will have a tough time reaching Q3 in tomorrow’s qualifying for the Malaysian Grand Prix. The Scot finished in 13th position in second practice after losing valuable track time because of a problem with his brakes. Di Resta said the car was feeling more competitive than in Australia last weekend, but admitted reaching the top ten in qualifying will be difficult.

Maldonado buoyed by Williams form

March 22nd, 2012

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Maldonado buoyed by Williams form

Pastor Maldonado is upbeat about Williams’s start to the year despite a disappointing finish to the season-opening Australian Grand Prix. Maldonado had a very strong race in Melbourne and was fighting for fifth place with Ferrari’s Fernando Alonso when he crashed out on the final lap of the event.

Rankings: Kenseth jumps Johnson

March 5th, 2012

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Rankings: Kenseth jumps Johnson

Matt Kenseth rose to an all-time high of 12th in the Castrol EDGE Rankings, and in the process jumped five-time champion Jimmie Johnson, following his triumph in the season-opening Daytona 500.

Jackson joins AmD for BTCC

January 12th, 2012

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Jackson joins AmD for BTCC

Ollie Jackson will race for AmD Tuning in the British Touring Car Championship this year. Jackson, 27, made his BTCC debut at the tail end of 2011 with the Triple 8 Vauxhall squad, but will now race AmD’s Volkswagen Golf, which will again be powered by a Lehmann-prepared VW NGTC engine.

Vettel voted best of 2011 by F1 bosses

December 15th, 2011

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Vettel voted best of 2011 by F1 bosses

Sebastian Vettel has added yet another accolade at the end of his remarkable 2011 campaign – by being voted as the best Formula 1 driver of the year in AUTOSPORT’s exclusive team principals’ top 10 rankings In the now annual poll, Vettel emerged as a clear winner ahead of Jenson Button – with last year’s winner Fernando Alonso dropping two places down to third. The annual team principals’ verdict is compiled by getting the top ten driver rankings of every boss, which are kept secret, and then converting their rankings into the F1 points’ system (25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1). The final scores are added up to discover which driver the team bosses overall believed had done the best job throughout the campaign.