Jacob Tofts
Hometown: Hatfield Heath
Hobbies: Sim-racing, Formula Ford race mechanic, car design, cycling and go-karting
Occupation: SIMSPORTNews Editor
Other Facts: My dad races cars and I am his mechanic, I have been sim-racing for a year. My favourite drivers are my dad (Neil Tofts), Daniel Riccardo, Max Verstappen and Fernando Alonso.
David Roffe
Hometown: Seattle, Washington, USA
Hobbies: Sim-racing, karting, mountain-biking, hiking
Occupation: Web Developer
Other Facts: Favourite drivers are Dan Gurney and Mark Donohue
Luis Emerton
Hometown: Coventry, UK
Hobbies: Simracing, shooting and whitewater kayaking
Occupation: Applications Engineer
Other Facts: Really enjoyed the WEC last season, Nicki Thiim has to be my favourite driver.
Sara Dove
Hometown: Bristol
Hobbies: Sim racing, video gaming, nail polish, computers, Warhammer, reading, photography, driving my new car!
Occupation: Unemployed
Other: I plan to try getting a racing licence this year, and maybe become a real racing driver!
John Keefe
Hometown: Ansonia CT USA
Hobbies: Sim Racing, Cycling, Drumming & Karting
Occupation: Self Employed
Other Facts:
I have been a life long motorsports fan. My father took me to the Indianapolis 500 in 1991, and my life was forever changed. I began Karting in the late 1990’s, and continued on through 2014. I was the Polesitter for the Indy Karting Classic in 2011 beating the likes of Joseph Newgarden, AJ Almendinger, Alex Tagliani
and many other real world drivers in that event.
As for Sim racing, it all began on a snowy weekend in 1995. Papyrus Nascar 95 was released and my stepfather just happened to work for IBM, so we had the good stuff that would run that program back then!! Next came another Papyrus release, IndyCar Racing 2!! HOOKED! Then ofcourse came Grand Prix Legends…. Mind blown at that point!! Fast forward to 2008 and iRacing here i come! Been active there ever since, Winning multiple championships in Grand Am. Since the release of the Nissan GTP
I have been exclusively competing in the Kamel GT series.
Austin Brewer
Hometown: Ipswich, Suffolk UK
Hobbies: Motorsport, amateur photography, exploring everything.
Occupation: Civil Engineer
Other Facts: I learnt to walk before I could crawl, I eat anything but peas and I daily-drive a Volvo 480 Celebration.
Chris Skinner
Hometown: Rochester NY USA
Hobbies: SimRacing, Fishing, Anime,and playing with my kids.
Occupation: Assistant Manager Tim Hortons
Other Facts: I am a hard working Father of 3. Married to my loving wife for 7 years now. Born and raised in western NY. I like working on my cars and hanging outside during the summer months. I did 1 WKA race in 2005 at summit point. I can’t remember what the kart was but it was not a shifter. (endouro something) I have a cousin Rick he raced a few ARCA races, 2000 ish. That is how I got to do the Kart race.
Mirko Dautanac
Hometown: Endeavour Hills Victoria, Australia
Hobbies: iRacing
Occupation: Diesel Mechanic
Other facts: Really enjoy all that iRacing has to offer. I’m a member of the ANZCAR league on iRacing, an oval league in the Aus/NZ community with races broadcast on RRTV
Luke King
Hometown: Benoni, Gauteng, South Africa
Hobbies: Flying radio-controlled aircraft, gym, gaming (CGSO and Sim Racing), working on race cars and drag racing
Occupation: Full time computer programming student, part time real estate agent
Other facts: Quite a few years of Sim Racing experience. Started way back in Gran Turismo 3 and F1 2001. Moved to Gran Turismo 4 and Assetto Corsa before discovering iRacing. Real life motorsports interests include Formula 1 (favourite driver – Kimi Raikkonen, ranked also as my all-time favourite driver), WEC (favourite driver – Kamui Kobayashi) and Formula Drift (favourite driver – ‘Mad’ Mike Whiddett)
Santtu Mäkinen
Hometown: Tampere, Finland
Hobbies: Fishing, Cooking and Gaming
Occupation: Student
Other facts: My favourite F1 drivers are Kimi Räikkönen and Daniel Ricciardo. I have watched F1 as long as I can remember. I don’t even remember missing a race for at least 15 years. Also big fan of Motogp and WRC.
Name: Fabian Jungbluth
Hometown: Siegen, Germany
Hobbies: Lets leave this blank ok?
Occupation: Jobless but hoping to change that in the summer
Other facts:
iRacing:
Winner of Indy 500 8th split 2017
2nd place of Indy 500 2018 6th split
Winner of 12h Sebring in C7 2nd split 2017
3rd place of Petit Lemans C-Spec Topsplit 2016
Member of simracingdeutschland
Driving in the DGTM and vVLN league series
Simon Ehses
Hometown: Kirschweiler, Germany
Hobbies: Sportshooting, SimRacing, Real Motorsport, Handball
Occupation: Electronics technician and IT-Student.
Other facts:
Teamboss until 05/2018 and now only Driver and Painter for GTTempel Racing Team.
Teamboss, Driver and Painter of the SimRacing Team from the Automobil Motorsport Club Birkenfeld e.V. (AMC Birkenfeld) in the official ADAC Digital Cup in Germany.
Also Boss of the DGTM from SimRacing Deutschland e.V. The biggest iRacing GT3-Series in Germany.
Also in the Organisation Team at the iRacing Series on the SimRacing Expo Events.
Douglas Welzel
Hometown: Scottsdale, Arizona, US
Hobbies: Motorsports, Golf, RC Helicopters and Planes
Occupation: Software Engineering
Other facts: Been playing racing games since I was a kid and about a year ago jumped into sim racing with both feet and haven’t looked back. Outside of work and sim racing I enjoy building and flying a variety of RC aircraft including planes (aerobatic and EDF), helicopters (700 class) and various FPV platforms.
Eric Bourduas
Hometown: Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
Hobbies: Gaming, Track days/time attack, Tech/PC building
Occupation: Web Application Developer
Other facts: Been daily driving an Evo IX since 2010, which also serves as my track car during the summer
Martin Christensen
Hometown: Odder, Denmark
Hobbies: Sim-racing, Motorsport, Go-karting, Football, Mountain/road biking and Running
Occupation: Currently I am still in school. I am finishing my last year in the Danish upper secondary school and I graduate from the Academy for Talented Youth this winter.
Other facts: I am 18 years old, and for as long as I can remember racing and motorsport in general have been a huge part of my life. My dad has a degree in technical engineering, and is therefore the main reason why I got in to motorsport in the first place. We have visited many of the European race tracks together, and after the Formula one race at Hockenheim Ring in 2010, I decided to begin Sim-racing.
Dali Jankovic
Hometown: Copenhagen
Hobbies: Simracing and RC-planes
Occupation: Social Worker
Other facts: I raced go-karts as a kid, and racing has been in my blood ever since.
Thomas Hjeresen
Hometown: Søborg, Denmark
Hobbies: Simracing , Cars and RC Racing
Occupation: Chauffør/Driver
Other facts: Just that I love Simracing and real racing.