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 1990s 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 of course 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, (enduro something) I have a cousin Rick he raced a few ARCA races, 2000 ish. That is how I got to do the Kart race.
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 a big fan of MotoGP and WRC.
Fabian Jungbluth
Hometown: Siegen, Germany
Hobbies: let’s 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 Top split 2016
Member of simracingdeutschland
Driving in the DGTM and vVLN league series
Simon Ehses
Hometown: Kirschweiler, Germany
Hobbies: Sports shooting, SimRacing, Real Motorsport, Handball
Occupation: Electronics technician and IT-Student.
Other facts:
Team boss until 05/2018 and now only Driver and Painter for GTTempel Racing Team.
Team boss, 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.
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 into 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.
Gabriel Alejandro Legnini
Hometown: Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza, Argentina
Hobbies: Simracing!
Occupation: Instruments Maintenance Officer
Other facts:
Been doing simracing online since 2007. Before running on iRacing regularly, I was champion on a national rFactor league LMP1 championship, driving a Peugeot 908 HDI FAP, and a special event of 2 hours with a 1970 Ferrari 312P. Biggest accolades in iRacing are winning 3rd split of 120 Minutes of Thunder by ISR TV back in 2012, driving a Riley DP, and getting a DSD button box as a price; and last season winning the Kamel GT World Series championship, driving a Nissan GTP (perhaps prototypes are my kind of car?). Not much spare time nowadays being married with two kids, but I love sim racing too much to stop it altogether, even when life throws curveballs that can force me some months away. Besides that, I’m a nut of cooking big meals in a plough disk on the fire! A bit of a sidestep from the typical Argentine who just loves to roast every kind of meat you can think of.
My brother races IRL on a regional Rally Raid style championship called CANAV, with emphasis on navigation. Was a champion in quads at seasons 2016 and 2017. For budget reasons, he switched to a navigation role for another driver from 2018, racing on a SxS. For 2019 they are switching again to the car class, on a pickup truck!
David Buitelaar
Hometown: Limoges, France
Hobbies: iRacing, music and 3D design
Occupation: Architect
Other facts:
Originally a Dutch guy, living in France since 2005, 44 years old, wife and a daughter. I love doing 3D design and rendering productions with Cad-programs since 1995. I love spending my time in the gym (running 10km) and I love karting on outside tracks, I always dreamt about being a racing driver as a little boy, and since I discovered iRacing, I think I realised my dream. I’ve followed F1 since 1988 and it’s my only hobby.
Luke Barton
Hometown: London, UK
Hobbies: Simracing, Raving, Boardgaming
Occupation: Software Engineer
Other facts:
When I was a kid I used to think F1 was the worst. Now I wake up in the middle of the night to watch it!