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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: why team orders should stay

March 26th, 2013

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Analysis: why team orders should stay

Red Bull’s ‘multi 21′ controversy with Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber in Malaysia has prompted fresh calls to ban team orders in Formula 1, but doing so would simply create more problems than it solves. The manner in which the Red Bull and Mercedes drivers were ordered to hold position at Sepang may be an annoyance to some fans who wanted to see a race to the flag, but a team orders ban would not have improved the situation. Red Bull and Mercedes were motivated to go into a formation pattern because of concerns about tyres, and in the latter case fuel as well.

BMW champion team PTG closes

March 25th, 2013

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BMW champion team PTG closes

The Prototype Technology Group team that masterminded BMW’s sportscar successes with the M3 in North America in the 1990s and 2000s is closing its doors. Tom Milner’s Virginia-based PTG squad was appointed by BMW North America to mastermind its entry into the IMSA series with the E36-shape M3 in 1995. The partnership yielded titles in IMSA, the United States Road Racing Club championship, the American Le Mans Series and Grand-Am across 11 seasons and two generations of M3

Williams: Maldonado has learned lessons

March 11th, 2013

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Williams: Maldonado has learned lessons

Pastor Maldonado was a new man in the final Formula 1 races of 2012 and can put his wild reputation behind him, reckons Williams technical chief Mike Coughlan. Although Maldonado became a grand prix winner with his triumph in Spain last year , he was also involved in a string of incidents during the season, picking up a number of grid penalties for driving misdemeanours.

Nurburgring to host 2013 German GP

January 31st, 2013

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Nurburgring to host 2013 German GP

A deal has been agreed for the Nurburgring to host the 2013 German Grand Prix, according to Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone. The future of the event had been in doubt for several months as financial difficulties threatened the Nurburgring ability to host a grand prix.

Attack Performance returns for US races

January 21st, 2013

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American outfit Attack Performance will return to MotoGP for all three United States races this year. AMA Superbike runner-up Blake Young will ride the team’s Kawasaki-powered APR chassis at the inaugural Austin MotoGP event plus the Laguna Seca and Indianapolis rounds.

Massa resurgence ‘won’t shake Alonso’

January 16th, 2013

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Massa resurgence ‘won’t shake Alonso’

Ferrari has no concerns that Felipe Massa’s resurgent form in Formula 1 will create tension with Fernando Alonso. The Brazilian driver bounced back from a difficult start to 2012 to end the campaign as one of the highest-scoring drivers, and even outqualified Alonso at a few races.

Zanardi open to Daytona 24 Hours

January 2nd, 2013

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Zanardi open to Daytona 24 Hours

Alex Zanardi says he is only interested in one-off racing events, after ruling out a full-season motorsport return in the near future.

Lewis Hamilton: 2012 in quotes

December 28th, 2012

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Lewis Hamilton: 2012 in quotes

Despite finishing only fourth in the Formula 1 drivers’ championship, Lewis Hamilton was one of the biggest stories of the 2012 season. The ‘will he/won’t he’ McLaren contract wrangle filled plenty of news outlets until his Mercedes deal was announced. But aside from all that, Hamilton drove superbly through much of the year and, without points lost to unreliability and early-season pitstop blunders, would surely have been in the title hunt

F1 needs ‘more modern’ management

December 21st, 2012

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F1 needs ‘more modern’ management

Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo has suggested that the time has come for new younger management to take over the running of Formula 1.

Daly: US more feasible than Europe

December 14th, 2012

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Daly: US more feasible than Europe

Conor Daly says the financial demands of racing in Europe mean he is likely to focus on finding a seat in the United States for next year. The American made his IndyCar debut with Foyt Racing at the Sebring circuit earlier this week as the team evaluates him for a possible seat for 2013

Austin seeks new date for 2013 race

December 6th, 2012

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Austin seeks new date for 2013 race

United States Grand Prix organisers want the date of the 2013 event at the Austin circuit changed in order to avoid a clash with an American football match. The Circuit of the Americas race is scheduled for the weekend of November 17 next year following confirmation of the schedule by the FIA World Motor Sport Council yesterday.

Drivers want answers over Hartstein

November 24th, 2012

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Drivers want answers over Hartstein

Grand Prix Drivers’ Association chairman Pedro de la Rosa plans to discuss the decision not to give Formula 1′s medical delegate Gary Hartstein a new contract with the FIA. Hartstein, who has held the role since 2005 , revealed that he would not be given a new deal ahead of the United States Grand Prix despite being keen to continue

FIA plans two DRS zones at most tracks

November 23rd, 2012

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FIA plans two DRS zones at most tracks

The FIA is committed to providing two DRS zones at as many tracks as possible next year to ensure that rule changes do not result in a reduction in overtaking. The governing body announced at the United States Grand Prix that for next year drivers will only be able to activate DRS in practice and qualifying in the designated overtaking zones used in the race.

Renault mandates new alternator

November 22nd, 2012

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Renault mandates new alternator

Renault has switched all its Formula 1 teams onto its newest specification alternators for this weekend’s Brazilian Grand Prix, following Mark Webber’s failure in the United States . With post-race analysis of Webber’s broken alternator from last weekend showing a repeat of the problem that put Sebastian Vettel out of the European and Italian Grands Prix, Renault believes the safest solution is to make partner teams Red Bull, Lotus, Williams and Caterham all use the latest version

Lotus simulator now up and running

November 22nd, 2012

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Lotus simulator now up and running

Lotus’s hopes of making further progress on track next season have been boosted with its new simulator now fully up and running. After months of development, Romain Grosjean was the first of its race drivers to try out the new simulator in Enstone ahead of the United States Grand Prix. The Frenchman said that there was still more calibration work to do before the team could be satisfied it was ready but, by the start of next season, the outfit should be on a good development path with it.

F1 ‘must capitalise’ on Austin impetus

November 21st, 2012

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F1 ‘must capitalise’ on Austin impetus

Austin circuit boss Bobby Epstein has urged Formula 1 not to let the impetus of a successful United States Grand Prix go to waste if it wants to make a breakthrough in America. With the sport revelling after a sell-out crowd was treated to a thrilling race at the new Austin track , Epstein is convinced that next year’s event can be even better if the sport makes an effort to build on what has been created

Hamilton chasing ‘perfect farewell’

November 21st, 2012

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Hamilton chasing ‘perfect farewell’

Lewis Hamilton is determined to try to end his spell at McLaren on a high and has set his sights on winning the season finale in Brazil. The British driver will leave the Woking-based team at the end of the year to join rival Mercedes , putting an end to a relationship that started when he was competing in karting. Hamilton won last weekend’s United States Grand Prix at Austin and admits he wants to finish the 2012 season on top once again on what will be an emotional weekend for him

McLaren ‘squandered title chance’

November 20th, 2012

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McLaren ‘squandered title chance’

McLaren boss Martin Whitmarsh believes that Lewis Hamilton would be fighting for the Formula 1 world championship in Brazil this weekend if the team had got the most out of its car this year. A spate of early-season errors and more recent reliability failures derailed Hamilton’s campaign and left him unable to threaten Sebastian Vettel and Fernando Alonso for the title. Whitmarsh thinks the pace of the McLaren in America, where Hamilton hunted down and defeated Vettel , shows the potential the team had this year

Ferrari ‘must focus on itself in finale’

November 20th, 2012

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Ferrari ‘must focus on itself in finale’

Ferrari’s only focus in Brazil will be on doing the best job it can, without thinking of worst-case scenarios for Sebastian Vettel, says team boss Stefano Domenicali. Red Bull driver Vettel goes into this weekend’s finale with a 13-point advantage over Fernando Alonso after they finished second and third in the United States Grand Prix on Sunday. The Spaniard would be champion if he wins the race and Vettel finishes outside the top four, if he is second and Vettel is outside the top seven, or if Alonso is third and Vettel finishes 10th or lower.

Red Bull vows to attack in Brazil

November 20th, 2012

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Red Bull vows to attack in Brazil

Red Bull has vowed to attack in the final race of the season even though the world championship is now at stake. Sebastian Vettel’s runner-up position in the United States Grand Prix was enough to clinch Red Bull the constructors’ championship and extend the German’s advantage over Fernando Alonso in the drivers’ standings to 13 points. That gap means Vettel needs to only finish fourth in Brazil to guarantee the championship