Jacob Tofts
Number: 116
Country: Great Britain
Hometown: Hatfield Heath
Hobbies: Sim-racing, Formula Ford race mechanic, car desgin, animation, RC car building and racing, cycling, YouTube and go-karting
Occupation: SIMSPORTNews Editor
Favourite iRacing Series: iRacing Grand Prix Series, Mazda MX-5 World Tour and VRS GT
Current League: Mazda MX-5 World Tour
Other Facts: My dad races cars and I am his mechanic, I have been sim-racing for a year. I enjoy making animations which I put on my youtube channel and 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. I look forward to working within the SIMSPORTNews Race Team.
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 (Full Name: Rodney 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.
Brain Corwin
Hometown: Pinckney, MI
Hobbies: Sim Racing, Sim Aviation, Sports Manager games (i.e. OOTP and Football Manager series), Disc Golf, Softball (fast and slow pitch), playing guitar.
Occupation: Currently training to become a certified (and licensed) driver’s education instructor in the state of Michigan. Self-employed locksmith (par-time).
Other facts: I have a degree in Sports Management from Madonna University. I have a background and in Law Enforcement and Fire Fighting although no longer work in either field. I fly for several virtual airlines on my free time including the Virtual United States Army Aviation Organization and DeltaVA.org. My favourite fixed wing aircraft is the Boeing 767-300ER and my favourite rotary aircraft is the UH-60L Blackhawk. I’ve been sim racing for 10+ years, six of which being on iRacing.
Ex-Drivers
Gianni Quintelier
Current Team: Torque Freak Racing
Number: 37
Country: Belgium
Hometown: Puurs
Hobbies: Sim-racing, running, cycling and X-Duathlon
Occupation: SIMSPORTNews Editor and Podiatry at Artevelde University College Ghent
Favourite iRacing Series: Advanced Mazda and iRacing Porsche Cup
Current League: Mazda MX-5 World Tour and GOT Porsche Supercup
Other Facts: My favourite type of racing is endurance racing because I like the physical aspect of it, its also less aggressive than sprint racing. My favourite drivers are Stoffel Vandoorne, Nicki Thiim and Fernando Alonso. I am also a LMP1 model car collector.