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Jamie Whincup (born 6 February,1983 in Melbourne, Victoria) is the reigning V8 Supercar champion, driving for TeamVodafone.
[edit] Early careerHis racing career started at the age of 7 in go-karts. From 1991 through to 1997, he won numerous Rookie and Junior titles at a state level. He was crowned KartOz Magazine's Karter of the Year and won the FMK Senior Intercontinental A Karting Series in 1998 and the Formula A Series in 1999 before progressing to Formula Ford in 2000. In 2001 Whincup embarked on the Australian Formula Ford Championship with a team run by his father and Uncle Graeme (a former Sports Sedan star) with mechanical support from fellow V8 Supercar driver Greg Ritter. After finishing third in his debut year, he jumped to Sonic Motorsport for the 2002 season and went on to win the championship convincingly which secured him his first ever V8 Supercar drive with Garry Rogers Motorsport. [edit] V8 SupercarAfter completing a full year of V8 Supercar racing with GRM, he was replaced by the more experienced Cameron McConville and was left without a full-time drive for 2004. He was later contracted by Castrol Perkins Racing to drive in the two endurance events. He landed himself a full-time drive in 2005 with the Melbourne based Tasman Motorsport. He had many solid results throughout the season, including a fourth at the one-off Chinese round at the Shanghai International Circuit, a third at the Sandown 500 and most notably, second at the Bathurst 1000 endurance events with team-mate Jason Richards after leading late in the race. [edit] Triple Eight Race EngineeringIn 2006, Whincup jumped from Holden to Ford and joined Triple Eight Race Engineering alongside Craig Lowndes. Whincup had a stellar first season, taking victory in the two biggest races of the season, the Clipsal 500 and Supercheap Auto 1000, the latter as co-driver to Craig Lowndes. After some incidents and unreliability, Whincup finished the championship in a slightly disappointing tenth position at years end. In 2007, Whincup returned with same the team which was re-branded Team Vodafone and celebrated several victories included a second Bathurst 1000 title along-side Team-mate Craig Lowndes. Jamie finished 2nd in the driver's title by a mere 2 points (the maximum amount for each round was 72) to Garth Tander from the Toll HSV Dealer Team. In 2007, Whincup began a mentoring role as part of Team Vodafone's Junior Development Program, and as a co-ambassador for Formula Ford Australia alongside Will Davison. His first round win for 2007, at a water-logged Winton, was the first round win for the year by a Ford driver. He celebrated both his 50th V8 Supercar Championship start and his inaugural pole position at Triple Eight Race Engineering's test track, Queensland Raceway. Whincup moved into the championship lead after a successful defence his and Lowndes' Bathurst 1000 crown, coming just weeks after teaming with Lowndes to win the last Sandown 500. Entering Surfer's Paradise for the Indy 300 with the series lead from Garth Tander, a difficult day on Sunday with a spin in the final race saw the lead revert to Tander who won the round. Whincup then had a disappointing weekend at Desert 400 at the Bahrain International Circuit, where poor qualifying pace for Triple Eight was compounded by a run of all three races marred by minor accidents, and he took away zero points. Tander and Craig Lowndes both had fairly good weekends, putting Tander into the series lead over Lowndes heading into the Symmons Plains race in Tasmania. Tander backed up his previous two round wins in the Apple Isle with a dominant race 1 win on Saturday, but a slow stop in race 2 dropped him to tenth, before disaster in race three after touching Steven Richards, he broke his steering and was out. Whincup won both races, and headed into the Grand Finale at Phillip Island on the December 1-2 weekend with a slender seven point championship lead. Whincup failed to keep his slender margin at Phillip Island; after Garth Tander won the first two races Whincup faced a seven point deficit. After a nail biting final race Whincup finished second, behind Todd Kelly and two places ahead of Tander but fell just two points short of the title. At the 2007 V8 Supercar Gala Awards Dinner at the completion of the 2007 season, Jamie was awarded the Barry Sheene Medal, deemed to be the "Best and Fairest" award for V8 Supercars. 2008 was simply Whincup's year, he stormed home to victory in both races during the opening round, the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide, and won a further 6 rounds after that including the Bathurst 1000 for a third year running. He clinched the Championship after winning the first race in the final round at Oran Park raceway, and was awarded the Barry Sheene Medal for the second year running at the V8 Gala Awards. Whincup took out the Driver's Championship, Team's Championship, Best Presented Team, Barry Sheene Medal, as well as taking out a third consecutive Bathurst title. Whincup won rounds at Clipsal, Sandown, Indy, Bahrain, and Tasmania, plus Bathurst with co-driver Craig Lowndes. [edit] Career results
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