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Primary Car	Ford Falcon FG
Engineer	Campbell Little
Origins	Sydney, NSW, 20th May 1981
Resides	Melbourne, Vic
Peronsonal Status	Wife, Renee
Outside of racing	Water sports, golf, moto-x riding
Street ride	FPV GT
Facebook	facebook.com/pages/Mark-Winterbottom/25375122056
Twitter	@mwinterbottom
Wiki	Mark_Winterbottom
Website	markwinterbottom.com
Team Website	fpr.com.au

After a season where the softer compound played havoc with his Orrcon Steel FPR Falcon in the mid part of the season, Mark Winterbottom is fired up and ready for the 2012 season.

Winterbottom finished 2011 with a string of strong results, taking wins on the Gold Coast and Sydney and finishing in the top seven in the last nine races of the championship.

The 2008 V8 Supercars Championship runner-up, Winterbottom first came to the notice of Blue Oval fans for his domination in karting, where he regularly raced against now V8 Supercar rival Jamie Whincup.

Given a leg up into Formula Ford, he finished runner-up to Whincup in the 2002 national series before landing the deal of a lifetime with Stone Brothers Racing.

In his first V8 season, Winterbottom dominated to win the Dunlop V8 Supercar Series and seal the Rookie of the Year Award but, with no spare seats at SBR, he was contracted out to

Mark Larkham’s Orrcon squad where he quickly learnt just how tough the V8 Supercars Championship can be.

After two seasons of toiling away, ‘Frosty’ moved to the works-backed Ford Performance Racing outfit in 2006, tasting his first podium, round win and race win all in the same seasonbefore finishing third in the series.

Returning in 2007, Winterbottom was stunning and won the Pole Position Award in addition to a dominant victory in Bahrain before returning in 2008 to be a championship challenger right up to the final round at Oran Park.

Winterbottom has major stability in his assault on the 2012 season, his seventh with the Prodrive-owned team, and again teams up with former Triple Eight and Stone Brothers engineer Campbell Little for this year.

A broken ankle during the off-season while water skiing forced Winterbottom to spend the majority of his downtime in rehab but he believes it will not affect his push for his first V8 Supercars Championship this year.