Jesse Abney has been with EA since 1995. As Producer on Need for Speed he's played a key role in the development of the user interface experience. Most recently working as press media relations and lead tactical design on SHIFT.
As one of the first EA Worldwide Studio members he founded the role of Manager of Technology Development and spearheaded the collaborative launch efforts on all next-gen platforms since PlayStation2. In this capacity he has played a role in the technology development of over 20 EA titles.
Today Jesse participates in the day to day management of Team Need for Speed Formula D 2010 Championship series.
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Dec 05 2010, 09:10 AM
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Check out all the GT1 race action, streamed live from San Luis in Argentina. The last race of the year is about to start so join the live feed after the jump! Brought to you by GT1World.com -Speedhunters
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Jul 31 2010, 03:28 AM
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Decided to go drive one of my Dads short track oval cars last weekend. It's a 1 litre 16 valve Nissan Micra or March in Japan. The car was misfiring in practice and the first race due to silly little problems from its conversion to carburettor from efi. But we got it fixed for race 2 and while trying to keep as tight as possible to the slower car inside me, in turn 2 I clipped his heavily cambered front wheel and launched myself into the air!!! Oops..... Look at that inside wheel! I just couldnt...
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Jul 29 2010, 01:23 AM
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Hello to all my fellow Speed Freaks, my name is Nate Hassler, I’m the associate editor at Modified Mag and recently I was given a unique and fantastic opportunity to follow and shadow the Gardella Racing team at Formula DRIFT: Throwdown at Evergreen Speedway. The crew of Gardella Racing is a small, tight knit group. Gary Gardella, the team owner, is a family man at heart, and he always takes time to speak to fans and spectators. Ryan Tuerck is very modest. With polite manners and a smile that...
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Jul 23 2010, 06:40 PM
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Finally! After a long break for Le Mans, the ALMS got back racing again with the 4th race of the season, the Utah Grand Prix at Miller Motorsport Park. For me, it’s been a slow month and a half. I spent two days with the rest of the team at Road Atlanta a few weeks ago, preparing for this race and for the rest of the season. But I was ready to get back racing again and put Laguna behind me. My week at Miller started pretty early. I had to be there on the Tuesday before the race to help with...
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Jul 19 2010, 07:00 AM
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September’s Theme for Modified Magazine is all about Australia and the World Time Attack Challenge. I’m not going to get into too much detail about the event since most of you have already read about the results on here. However, if you are looking for complete coverage of how everything unfolded then I highly recommend this issue. We also looked past the pro cars and have coverage of the other classes that ran during the event. We couldn’t leave out the privateers, after all, those...
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Jul 16 2010, 02:10 PM
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It’s not a surprise that nowadays the world’s automotive culture consists of a great variety of different tuning styles. Some of us prefer to spend our budgets under the hood instead of on the exterior, while others are happy to buy a Lamborghini or Ferrari. But there is a very special car style which nobody can ignore. The low rider. The amount of low rider enthusiasts all over the globe becomes bigger each year, even here in Russia. And this brings us to Active Open Air, which was held...
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Jul 03 2010, 08:00 AM
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All the action from this weekend's FIA GT3 round at Paul Ricard in France is just a click away, live as it happens! Catch qualifying on July 3 at 9am CET and the first race at 2.30pm CET. Sunday's second race is at 11.20am CET. Brought to you by GT3Europe.com
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Jun 08 2010, 09:08 AM
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What’s big, wide, and packs quite a punch? July’s cover car of course. It’s a purpose track built, 407whp, Subaru STI with all the right parts and combinations. What sets this STI apart from others is the great attention to detail throughout the entire build and let’s face it, this STI looks killer. It’s clean and minimalistic approach to the exterior make it stand out from most of the sticker clad track warriors out there. Another fine example of a clean and unique...
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Jun 07 2010, 03:10 AM
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Since last week was drives week, I figured I would stray away from the normal Modified Mag content I post and show you a great drive I took last week while I was in Australia covering the World Time Attack Challenge. Mazda of Australia was gracious enough to throw me the keys to one of their brand new 2010 Mazda MPS hatchbacks. These cars are called MazdaSpeed3’s in North America but I heard because Australia doesn’t allow the word Speed to be used in a car’s name Mazda had to settle...
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Jun 04 2010, 02:44 PM
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A new addition to this round was the return of Robin Duxbury’s EVO 7, with a complete makeover. Still featuring the mix of Voltex and Do-Luck areo, it has now gotten lower, lighter and faster! Featuring DTM Spec Mercedes carbon brakes, WRC tarmac spec Exe-tc suspension, Touring car inspired suspension set up’s and to top it all over a flappy paddle sequential shift system! This car really does need to be seen in the flesh to appreciate the attention to detail and the sheer awesomeness...
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Jun 03 2010, 05:00 PM
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At the end of every month, the Australian JDM Style Tuning forum holds an informal meet (known as EOMM). This month’s meet was held at JDM Yard, with the complex filling quickly with cars. About 30 cars had to park on the street as there was simply no more space. The turnout was decent – I’d guess there were around 80 cars – considering the rain continued to fall for most of the day. Tom from Fast Fours magazine made a cameo appearance in his 180SX. He’s certainly nailed...
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Apr 23 2010, 02:12 PM
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Hey hey my fellow SpeedHunters, my name is Ryan Gates and I'm here to share some pretty rad info with you all! First of all, I'd like to thank the awesome crew at SpeedHunters for letting me post the whole rebuild and refresh process of my Modified class Evo X. It's taken a beating over the last two race season... it's been a track rat pretty much since the day I bought the car in early '08. Running across the US competing in both US-based Time Attack series Redline Time Attack...
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Apr 08 2010, 04:09 PM
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Formula D just announced they're hosting the YoParts live stream of all on-track activities at LBC starting Friday the 9th. This will be available from Formula DRIFT's home page, Needforspeed.com as well as through a myriad of support links below. Drift fans will now be able to watch all the drift battles live (or on-demand) throughout the FD 2010 campaign. Drift Stream landing page on Formula D's own site Direct from the Live Stream host site Open this link on your phone's browser...
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Apr 01 2010, 04:40 PM
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"If I was the lead singer of a band what would the band's name be?" Vaughn Gittin Jr. challenges all Los Angeles area drift animals to throw out your band name here. He'll pick the best on Monday Apr 5th. The winner will receive 2 tickets to the unveiling party of JR's 2010 Formula D Mustang RTR @ Rob Dyrdeks Fantasy Factory In LA, on Wednesday the 7th - though you must be at least 18 to join 'em. Send your best via email (so Vaughn can contact you) and see the rest of you...
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Mar 05 2010, 01:51 PM
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As the smoke, rubber, and acrid smell of straight pipe exhausts burn off from Skyline week, we present another Speedhunters first. Teamed up with YoParts, we’ll cover the GMG performance build of their R35 GT-R Street Machine. For anyone not aware, you will be able to win this amazing car! YoParts has created a pretty cool performance specification contest for their customers to participate in each step of the build; they’ll get access to specs, and be asked to calculate perf curves,...
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Feb 15 2010, 04:10 PM
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I’ve recently come back from the NISSAN Motorsports Press Conference 2010. It was the first such event at the company’s gleaming new headquarters in Yokohama, where the DATSUN brand was born nearly 75 years ago. Naturally, the focus was on who will be driving for each of the three teams in the GT500 class of SUPER GT this season... .. but equally on what developments had taken place ahead of the inaugural FIA GT1 World Championship. With the sudden demise in December of Gigawave Motorsports...
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