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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.

Lowndes beats Fords to race two pole

May 20th, 2012

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Craig Lowndes beat the Ford Performance Racing cars to pole position for the second race of V8 Supercars’ Phillip Island event. A 1m32.3167s lap at the end of the session from the Triple Eight Holden driver gave Lowndes the top spot and meant David Reynolds (Rod Nash/FPR) missed out on his maiden V8 pole for a second day in a row, having been edged out by team-mate Mark Winterbottom on Saturday

Winterbottom wins as rivals collide

May 19th, 2012

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Mark Winterbottom escaped to victory in a spectacular first V8 Supercars race at Phillip Island, as his title rivals Jamie Whincup and Will Davison collided amid a wild dice for second place. Shane van Gisbergen fought through from 11th on the grid to take second in the Stone Brothers Ford, while his team-mate Tim Slade fended off Garth Tander (Holden Racing Team) for third. Ford filled the podium, but for much of the race it looked like it would be the Ford Performance Racing team itself that took the top three sweep

Davison wins thrilling race three

May 6th, 2012

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Will Davison resisted huge pressure from Mark Winterbottom and Jamie Whincup to take his second victory of the day in the weekend’s third V8 Supercars race at Barbagallo.

Whincup on top in race two qualifying

May 6th, 2012

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Jamie Whincup beat race one winner Mark Winterbottom to pole position for race two of V8 Supercars’ Barbagallo triple-header on Sunday morning. Ford Performance Racing team-mates Winterbottom and Will Davison held the provisional front row slots approaching the end of the 15-minute session, for which hard tyres were mandatory.

Winterbottom resists Whincup to win

April 22nd, 2012

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Mark Winterbottom resisted a fast-closing Jamie Whincup to take his first points-paying victory of the 2012 V8 Supercars season in the series’ final Hamilton street race. Whincup recovered from a crash in qualifying and a poor start to hunt down Winterbottom.

Lowndes beats FPR pair to pole

April 1st, 2012

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Craig Lowndes put Holden back on top in qualifying for the second V8 Supercars race of the weekend at Symmons Plains. After setting a record pace in morning practice, the Triple Eight driver put in an unbeatable 51.0408-second lap halfway through the 20-minute qualifying session for Sunday afternoon’s 200-kilometre race. Ford Performance Racing had dominated Saturday’s qualifying session and race, but had to settle for second and third with Will Davison and Mark Winterbottom in this session

Davison beats Winterbottom to win

March 31st, 2012

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Will Davison defeated Ford Performance Racing team-mate Mark Winterbottom in a tight victory battle in the first V8 Supercars race of the weekend at Symmons Plain in Tasmania. The duo had also shared the front row, and although Winterbottom had taken pole, it was Davison who jumped ahead at the start and took charge. While his team-mate edged away, Winterbottom – who felt his winter leg injury was compromising his starts – got embroiled in hard-fought tussles with Jamie Whincup (Triple Eight Holden) and Shane van Gisbergen (Stone Brothers Ford) After shaking off van Gisbergen, Winterbottom reclaimed second from Whincup when the champion ran wide at Turn 7 just before the pitstops began.

Winterbottom leads FPR front row

March 31st, 2012

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Winterbottom leads FPR front row

Mark Winterbottom led team-mate Will Davison as Ford Performance Racing filled the front row of the grid for race one of V8 Supercars’ Symmons Plain weekend. Winterbottom’s 51.4020-second lap in the closing moments of the session saw him edge his team-mate by just 0.090s

Van Gisbergen wins race four

March 18th, 2012

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Van Gisbergen wins race four

Shane van Gisbergen triumphed in the final race of the V8 Supercars’ non-championship Australian Grand Prix support event in Melbourne, ending Mark Winterbottom’s weekend of dominance.

Winterbottom prevails amidst chaos

March 17th, 2012

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Winterbottom prevails amidst chaos

Mark Winterbottom continued his winning streak in the V8 Supercars’ non-championship outing at Melbourne by sealing victory in a chaotic race three. The race was marred by opening lap carnage which involved five cars and brought about a lengthy safety car, which also served to reduce the race to a seven-lap sprint.

Winterbottom makes it two from two

March 16th, 2012

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Winterbottom makes it two from two

Mark Winterbottom made it two wins from two races in the V8 Supercars’ non-championship Melbourne outing after a last-lap pass on Shane van Gisbergen in race two.

Winterbottom wins qualifying race

March 16th, 2012

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Winterbottom wins qualifying race

Ford Performance Racing’s Mark Winterbottom took victory in the qualifying race that kicked off V8 Supercars’ non-championship event on the Australian Grand Prix support bill in Melbourne. In an unusual rules twist for this race, the three cars running at the tail of the field on each lap from laps three to eight had to retire to leave a 10-car shoot-out over the final three laps of the event, which set the grid for race two later today.

Whincup wins thrilling V8 opener

March 3rd, 2012

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Whincup wins thrilling V8 opener

Reigning V8 Supercars champion Jamie Whincup started his title defence with a dramatic victory in the 2012 season-opener in Adelaide. The Triple Eight Holden driver used a three-stop strategy where others tried to stretch their fuel mileage on two pit visits. That set up a grandstand finish with the flying Whincup hunting down the leaders, and finally snatching first place from Ford Performance Racing’s Will Davison on the last lap as the Falcon stuttered.

Lowndes takes V8 pole in Adelaide

March 2nd, 2012

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Lowndes takes V8 pole in Adelaide

Craig Lowndes will start from pole position for race one of the 2012 V8 Supercars season in Adelaide.

Davison on top in qualifying again

December 4th, 2011

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Ford Performance Racing’s Will Davison completed a Sydney pole double in qualifying for the final race of the V8 Supercars season, but the main focus was on the battle between title rivals and Triple Eight Holden team-mates Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes.

Davison takes Sydney pole

December 3rd, 2011

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Will Davison claimed pole for the first part of this weekend’s V8 Supercars finale in Sydney, while title rivals Jamie Whincup and Craig Lowndes will line up fifth and 10th on the grid.

Whincup takes another victory

November 12th, 2011

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Whincup takes another victory

Jamie Whincup notched up yet another win in race one of V8 Supercars’ Symmons Plain event, leading team-mate and title rival Craig Lowndes in a Triple Eight Holden one-two. Whincup was beaten off the line by Mark Winterbottom, but managed to repass the Ford Performance Racing car at Turn 6 on lap 11 of 50

Whincup beats Ford to race one pole

November 12th, 2011

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V8 Supercars championship leader Jamie Whincup took another pole position in qualifying for race one of this weekend’s Symmons Plain event.

Whincup and Bourdais on pole again

October 23rd, 2011

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Whincup and Bourdais on pole again

Jamie Whincup and Sebastien Bourdais will start from pole position for the final race of the V8 Supercars weekend in Surfers Paradise, completing a clean sweep of qualifying at the event. The pair had already guided the No. 88 Triple Eight Holden to pole position and then victory in the opening race, allowing Whincup to move into the lead of the championship.

Lowndes beats Winterbottom to pole

July 10th, 2011

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Triple Eight’s Craig Lowndes ended Mark Winterbottom’s run of pole positions in the single qualifying session for the second race in this weekend’s Townsville 400.