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Primary Car	Holden Commodore VEII
Engineer	Mark Dutton
Origins	Melbourne, Vic, February 6, 1983
Resides	Gold Coast, QLD
Peronsonal Status	Girlfriend, Courtney
Outside of racing	Water skiing, trail bike riding
Street ride	Holden Calais Sportswagon
Facebook	facebook.com/JDWhincup
Twitter	@jamiewhincup
Wiki	Jamie_Whincup
Website	jamiewhincup.com.au
Team Website	teamvodafone.com.au

The form man of the last five years in the V8 Supercars Championship, reigning champion Jamie Whincup has amazingly not finished out of the top two in the championship in that period. After falling short in 2010, the TeamVodafone ace struck back with force last year to win 10 races and take nine pole positions on his way to his third V8 Supercars Championship crown. Demon fast in karting, Whincup moved to Formula Ford in 2000 and was crowned Australian champion in 2002. Spotted by Garry Rogers, he made his V8 Supercar debut at the Queensland 500 in 2002 before graduating to a full-time position with the team a year later. But 2003 proved to be difficult and Whincup found himself dumped come the end of the season and only able to scrape together an endurance seat in the third Castrol Perkins car in 2004. Given a lifeline by Tasman Motorsport in 2005, Whincup responded in style, partnering the late Jason Richards to podium results at Sandown and Bathurst which paved the way to joining Triple Eight Race Engineering for 2006. Winning in style on debut in Adelaide, Whincup would win Bathurst in partnership with Craig Lowndes in his first year in a Ford. He returned in 2007 to challenge for the title, winning four rounds on his way to becoming runner-up to Garth Tander by a mere two points. In 2008 he would finish the job, sealing the crown in style with a victory in Race 1 at Oran Park in a season where he won six rounds and was clearly the class of the field. He backed it up again in 2009 with a new FG Falcon, winning 11 races and sealing back-to-back titles and his 2011 title win made him just the second man after Norm Beechey – but first in the modern V8 Supercar era – to have won the championship in both a Ford and a Holden.