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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.

Whincup wins comfortably in race two

April 18th, 2010

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Team Vodafone’s Jamie Whincup went back-to-back as he took a comfortable win in race two of the ITM 400 on the streets of Hamilton in New Zealand.

Whincup takes pole for race two

February 27th, 2010

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Jamie Whincup continued his strong start to the season by taking pole position for the second race of the Desert 400 at the Bahrain International Circuit.

Whincup nicks Bahrain race one pole

February 26th, 2010

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Whincup nicks Bahrain race one pole

Team Vodafone’s Jamie Whincup continued his strong start to the season by claiming pole position for the first race of the Desert 400 at the Bahrain International Circuit. Whincup set the fastest time in qualifying and repeated the feat in the top-ten shootout, despite a couple of moments in the middle of the lap which saw him down a few hundredths of a second starting the final sector, but he recovered to take pole by a quarter of a second.

Whincup on Abu Dhabi Race One Pole

February 19th, 2010

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Team Vodafone’s Jamie Whincup showed the switch from Ford to Holden won’t be as big a problem as some may have hoped, taking pole position for race one of the Yas V8 400 at the Yas Marina Circuit in Abu Dhabi. Whincup was fastest in qualifying and went even faster in the shootout to take pole position by nearly quarter of a second in his return to the Holden marque, with Holden Racing Team’s Garth Tander alongside him after setting the second fastest time in both sessions.

IndyCar Racing in December

by David Phillips on December 23rd, 2009

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IndyCar Racing in December

The December weather at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway may be frightful, but that’s not preventing a delightfully enthusiastic band of iRacers from racing their Dallara Indy cars.   Did we say enthusiastic?  Add illustrious, at least in some cases. With names like Power, Wilson and Scheckter, Bettenhausen, George and Krisiloff the entry list reads like a Who’s Who of Indy car racing, past, present and yet to come.  Some are active Indy car drivers, others the sons and grandsons of some of the sport’s most legendary and influential figures, still others are rank ‘n file members of iRacing.com with names like Simpson, Doyle and Cress. Call them what you want, they call themselves the 16th Street Racing League.   Thanks to iRacing.com, they get together every Wednesday evening from as far away [...]

Whincup claims pole for race two

November 22nd, 2009

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Team Vodafone’s Jamie Whincup claimed pole position with the fastest time in qualifying for race two of the Bigpond 300 at Barbagallo. Whincup went to the top of the times with two minutes remaining in the session, taking pole position ahead of Ford Performance Racing’s Mark Winterbottom who had set the previous benchmark a couple of minutes earlier.

Whincup wins Barbagallo race one

November 21st, 2009

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Team Vodafone’s Jamie Whincup drove a perfect race to take a comfortable victory in race one of the Bigpond 300 at Barbagallo. Using the sprint tyres at the start of the race, Whincup took the lead from team-mate Craig Lowndes at the start and made the most of his sprint tyres, stopping just before half-distance, his strategy leaving him comfortably clear of the field in the closing laps. Second was Todd Kelly who ran a similar strategy to Whincup after running fourth in the early running

Lowndes on Barbagallo race one pole

November 21st, 2009

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Team Vodafone’s Craig Lowndes took his first pole position since 2005 when he went fastest in the qualifying shootout for race one of the BigPond 300 at Barbagallo. Lowndes was fifth before the shootout but just hung on to pole position in the shootout, his team-mate Jamie Whincup just failing to beat his time by 0.0052 of a second after leading qualifying going into the shootout, the two Team Vodafone cars lining up on the front row of the grid. Still less than a tenth behind Lowndes were Jim Beam’s Steven Johnson and Holden Racing Team’s Will Davison in third and fourth, with Todd Kelly and Mark Winterbottom filling the third row of the grid

Whincup wins race one at Phillip Island

November 7th, 2009

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Team Vodafone’s Jamie Whincup got his championship challenge back on track with victory in race one of the The Island 300 at Phillip Island. Whincup moved into second by turn one and took the lead on lap three, and apart from a brief period during the pitstops, led the rest of the way to the chequered flag. Not too far away was his championship rival Will Davison who finished second, leading the opening part of the race before being passed by Whincup, just not quite able to match the winner’s pace

Bright takes pole for Island race one

November 7th, 2009

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Fujitsu Racing’s Jason Bright took a dominant pole position in the top-ten shootout for the first race of the The Island 300 at Phillip Island. Bright had been fastest in the qualifying session before the shootout, and went even faster on his shootout lap to take pole position by nearly four-tenths of a second. Alongside him on the front row will be Holden Racing Team’s Will Davison, who moved up from fifth in qualifying, one place ahead of championship rival Jamie Whincup who qualified third.

Lowndes takes win in race three

October 25th, 2009

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Team Vodafone’s Craig Lowndes took a dominant win in race three of the Nikon SuperGP at Surfers Paradise as his team-mate’s championship lead took another significant hit. Lowndes led from start to finish, but it was team-mate Jamie Whincup’s crash on the second-last lap that may prove to be a significant moment in this year’s championship. With championship contender Will Davison limping around after damaging his steering early in the race, Whincup seemed on track to catch up most of the margin he lost to Davison following yesterday’s incident in race one

Bargwanna takes pole for race three

October 24th, 2009

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Sprint Gas Racing’s Jason Bargwanna has taken a surprise pole position for race three of the Nikon SuperGP at Surfers Paradise. Bargwanna led the times early in the session but it was his lap in the final two minutes that put him on top for the second pole of his V8 Supercar career, where he stayed, in a session that ended with the top six drivers separated by just 0.15 of a second

Tander takes victory in race two

October 24th, 2009

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Holden Racing Team’s Garth Tander broke Mark Winterbottom’s domination of the event so far with victory in race two of the Nikon SuperGP at Surfers Paradise.

Winterbottom wins Surfers race one

October 24th, 2009

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Ford Performance Racing’s Mark Winterbottom continued his session-topping performances with victory in race one of the Nikon SuperGP at Surfers Paradise. Apart from a brief break during the compulsory pitstops, Winterbottom led from start to finish, keeping a small margin over second-place finisher Garth Tander throughout the race, Tander’s Holden Racing Team team-mate finishing just behind in third.

Winterbottom on race one pole

October 23rd, 2009

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Ford Performance Racing’s Mark Winterbottom took pole position for the first race of this weekend’s Nikon SuperGP at Surfers Paradise in this morning’s shootout.

Winterbottom leads Surfers qualifying

October 23rd, 2009

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Ford Performance Racing’s Mark Winterbottom topped the times in qualifying ahead of tomorrow’s top ten shootout for this weekend’s Nikon SuperGP at Surfers Paradise.