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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.

Malaysia practice quotes: McLaren

March 22nd, 2013

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Jenson Button – 11th/12th: “Today we got through a decent amount of satisfactory work, and we duly gathered some more useful info about MP4-28. “On a dry track it feels better than it did in Melbourne, but even then its pace still isn’t there compared with that of the front-running cars. “We’ve identified some further improvements that we can make before tomorrow, though, which is encouraging, and it’s been a good day in terms of learning

Hamilton ready to be patient

January 25th, 2013

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Hamilton ready to be patient

Lewis Hamilton says he is ready to be patient with Mercedes if the team does not manage to deliver a competitive car right away. The British driver is joining the German squad after having spent all his Formula 1 career at McLaren , but he has already stated that he is not expecting to fight for wins this year.

Analysis: Brawn and Hamilton defiant

January 24th, 2013

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Analysis: Brawn and Hamilton defiant

This was meant to be Lewis Hamilton’s big day, the moment he strolled through the doors at Brackley and give his first official press conference as a Mercedes Formula 1 driver. The world should have been waiting with baited breath to hear what he had to say about his new environment, his new colleagues, his prospects for the season ahead. But events overtook him and today wasn’t Hamilton’s day at all

Keselowski predicts bright Ford future

December 3rd, 2012

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Keselowski predicts bright Ford future

2012 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Brad Keselowski predicts ‘great things’ will come of Penske’s impending switch to Ford. The team announced in August that it would leave Dodge, which finished bottom of the Sprint Cup manufacturers’ championship this season, and switch to Ford machinery . Dodge subsequently announced it would leave NASCAR at the end of 2012

India preview quotes: Caterham

October 23rd, 2012

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Giedo van der Garde: “With each session I’m doing I’m getting more comfortable with the car and the team and the feedback I’m getting from the engineers is good, so India’s another chance to build on that. It’s another new track for me but one that looks cool on my simulator, and the other drivers have told me it’s better than quite a few of the stop / start type of tracks so I’m looking forward to getting back out on track. “I’m also really looking forward to going to India

Alguersuari to announce plans soon

October 11th, 2012

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Alguersuari to announce plans soon

Jaime Alguersuari says he will announce his future plans “soon” after concluding his work as a Pirelli test driver.

Japan Saturday quotes: Caterham

October 6th, 2012

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Heikki Kovalainen – 19th: “For me I’m pleased with what I got out of the car today.

Caterham duo not concerned by rivals

October 6th, 2012

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Caterham duo not concerned by rivals

Vitaly Petrov and Heikki Kovalainen are adamant that the Japanese Grand Prix qualifying result is not a sign that Caterham is being caught by rivals Marussia and HRT.

McLaren fully focused on titles now

October 3rd, 2012

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McLaren fully focused on titles now

Lewis Hamilton and McLaren are totally focussed on winning the 2012 drivers’ and constructors’ championships, now that the Briton has been confirmed as switching to Mercedes from next year onwards.

Franchitti not panicked by slow start

April 16th, 2012

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Franchitti not panicked by slow start

Reigning IndyCar champion Dario Franchitti insists that he is not panicking about the difficult start to his 2012 campaign, despite another disappointing weekend at Long Beach. The Scot started the weekend’s race on pole position but was eventually classified 15th after suffering a late mechanical problem.

Hamilton says balance will be key

March 23rd, 2012

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Hamilton says balance will be key

Lewis Hamilton says finding a set-up balance which suits both qualifying and the race will be key to his fortunes in the Malaysian Grand Prix. After going fastest in both practice sessions, the 2008 world champion said he was already happy with the feel of his car on short runs

Hamilton unsure of what to expect in Oz

March 15th, 2012

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Hamilton unsure of what to expect in Oz

Lewis Hamilton says he has no idea what to expect from the season-opening Australian Grand Prix this weekend. The British McLaren driver, however, reckons Red Bull, plus Lotus, Mercedes and Ferrari are looking strong. “I’m not expecting anything,” Hamilton told reporters in Melbourne on Thursday.

Webber predicts ‘very tight’ battle

March 1st, 2012

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Webber predicts ‘very tight’ battle

Mark Webber is predicting a tight battle for victory in the season opening Australian Grand Prix, with teams still unsure about how well their preparations are going in winter testing. While many view Red Bull Racing and McLaren as favourites for victory in Melbourne, Webber insisted on Thursday that his team was feeling good about its progress – but was taking nothing for granted. “We are all anxious to get to Melbourne eventually and see where all of our work is, but I think the team have done a phenomenal job in terms of preparation and working as hard as we can – and we just have to see if that is going to be enough,” he said, after ending the first day of the Barcelona test fourth fastest.

Hamilton not giving up on title yet

June 28th, 2011

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Hamilton not giving up on title yet

Lewis Hamilton has insisted that he remains focused on doing all he can to win the world championship this year, despite having admitted in Valencia on Sunday night that the title fight was all but over. Less than 24 hours after Hamilton suggested that runaway championship leader Sebastian Vettel had ‘pretty much’ guaranteed the title already, the McLaren driver amazingly took a snipe at the media reports of what he had said

Hamilton says car ‘just very slow’

June 11th, 2011

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Hamilton says car ‘just very slow’

Lewis Hamilton felt he got the absolute maximum speed available from his McLaren in Canadian Grand Prix qualifying, and reckons the team’s fifth and seventh places on the grid prove it is losing ground to Red Bull and Ferrari. Hamilton and team-mate Jenson Button were unable to get involved in the Montreal pole fight, and were 0.5 seconds and 0.8s respectively off the pace.

Spies admits needing confidence boost

June 2nd, 2011

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Spies admits needing confidence boost

Ben Spies says he wants to make a ‘fresh start’ to his 2011 season from this weekend’s Catalunya Grand Prix, but admits his tough start to the campaign has sapped his confidence. In his first season with the factory Yamaha MotoGP team, Spies is yet to finish on the podium and has just two sixth places to show from the opening four grands prix.

Tyre gamble in Q3 unlikely – McLaren

May 3rd, 2011

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Tyre gamble in Q3 unlikely – McLaren

McLaren has played down the chances of frontrunning teams deliberately sacrificing qualifying in Turkey in a bid to save all-new tyres for the race. With this weekend’s grand prix in Istanbul likely to witness high levels of tyre degradation, there have been some suggestions that drivers may choose to elect to not run in parts of qualifying so they can save their rubber for the race

Hamilton: ‘I’m positive, not frustrated’

March 12th, 2011

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Hamilton: ‘I’m positive, not frustrated’

Lewis Hamilton insists he is not frustrated at the prospect of McLaren having to start the season playing catch-up again. The Woking team has lacked both pace and reliability in winter testing so far, but Hamilton says he remains optimistic that improvements will not take long.

Servia, Hinchcliffe test for NHR again

March 7th, 2011

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Servia, Hinchcliffe test for NHR again

Newman/Haas has announced that it will field James Hinchcliffe and Oriol Servia again in the IndyCar Series test at Barber Motorsports Park next week. Although neither driver has yet completed a deal with the team, both are keen to be part of its line-up in 2011

Italy Sunday quotes: HRT

September 12th, 2010

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Sakon Yamamoto – 20th: “The first thing I would say that I was very worried about the incident in the pit-lane.