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Encyclopedia > Mark Winterbottom

Mark "Frosty" Winterbottom was born on May 20, 1981 in Sydney, Australia. He is a racing driver. 20 May is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... 1981 (MCMLXXXI) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the metropolitan area in Australia. ...


He started his motor racing career in 1989 at the age of 8, racing 50cc and 80cc motorbikes, and then moved on to go-karts at the age of 10. He would remain in karts until his early twenties, winning an astonishing 10 Australian Kart Championships and 25 State Karts Championships. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...


He moved up to the Australian Formula Ford Championship, for the 2002 season, and finished as the runner-up to fellow V8 Supercar racer Jamie Whincup, with 5 wins and 2 poles. He was given the Rookie of the Year title. For the Cusco album, see 2002 (album). ... Greg Murphy in a Holden Commodore leads 3 other cars at Bathurst V8 Supercar is the most popular category of domestic motorsport in Australia, and one of the worlds biggest and most professional racing championships. ...


In 2003, Winterbottom moved up to the Konica V8 Supercar series and made an amazing impression with the Stone Brothers Racing team by winning the championship with 5 round victories and 6 pole positions. He also made his debut in the V8 Supercar series in the two endurance races at the Sandown 500 and Bathurst 1000 sharing on both occasions with Mark Noske. He impressed at Bathurst, running third until he retired at around three-quarter distance. 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Greg Murphy in a Holden Commodore leads 3 other cars at Bathurst V8 Supercar is the most popular category of domestic motorsport in Australia, and one of the worlds biggest and most professional racing championships. ... Holden Corner (aka Hell Corner) of the Mount Panorama Circuit The Bathurst 1000 is a 1000 km motor race for touring cars, conducted at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. ...


2004 saw him move full-time into the V8 Supercar series with Larkham Motorsport but didn't do him good, with only one top-5 in two seasons. That again came at the Bathurst 1000 in 2004. It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in... Greg Murphy in a Holden Commodore leads 3 other cars at Bathurst V8 Supercar is the most popular category of domestic motorsport in Australia, and one of the worlds biggest and most professional racing championships. ... Holden Corner (aka Hell Corner) of the Mount Panorama Circuit The Bathurst 1000 is a 1000 km motor race for touring cars, conducted at the Mount Panorama Circuit near Bathurst, New South Wales, Australia. ... It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in...


For 2006, Mark moved to Ford Performance Racing as the driver of car #5 replacing Glenn Seton. Winterbottom satred the season pretty badly with a 22nd and a 19th at the Clipsal 500 in Adelaide. 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Glenn Seton (May 15, 1965–) is an Australian racing driver. ... The Adelaide 500 (also known as the Clipsal 500 for naming sponsor Clipsal Electronics) is an annual racing carnival for Touring Cars held on a street circuit in the east end of Adelaide on a shortened form of the former Australian Grand Prix track. ... Adelaide is the capital and most populous city of the Australian state of South Australia, and is the fifth largest city in Australia, with a population of over 1. ...


He lives with partner Renee, in Melbourne, Australia. Melbourne is the state capital and largest city in the Australian state of Victoria, and the second-largest city in Australia (after Sydney), with a population of approximately 3. ...


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V8 SUPERCARS: Winterbottom's car trashed by steel drain grate. (617 words)
Orrcon Racing's Mark Winterbottom was forced to sit out the second and third V8 Supercar races at Shanghai today [Sunday] after a bizarre incident in the opening race.
The most frightening part for Winterbottom and the Larkham-Orrcon team is the fact that as the car travelled across the upturned grate it cut through the floor tray impacting with the bottom and rear of the driver's seat before gauging a hole immediately behind the seat.
Event organisers meanwhile increased the safety overnight on the area of the circuit where the incident took place by covering the drain grates with a row of tyre barriers on the edge of the circuit and have also indicated that the drains may be filled with concrete for future events.
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