Jamie Whincup

Jamie Whincup
Jamie Whincup at Albert Park in 2006
Nationality	Australian
Born	6 February 1983 (1983-02-06) (age 33) Melbourne, Victoria
Supercars Record
Car number	88
Current team	Triple Eight Race Engineering
Series championships	6 (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014)
Races	408
Race wins	104
Podium finishes	196
Pole positions	73
2016 Championship position	2nd (3168 pts)

Jamie Whincup (born 6 February, 1983) is an Australian professional racing driver competing in the Supercars Championship. He currently drives the No. 88 Holden VF Commodore for Triple Eight Race Engineering. Whincup is a six-time V8 Supercar champion and four-time Bathurst 1000 winner.

Whincup's interest in motor racing commenced at the age of 7 when his father purchased him a go-kart. 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, though he claims he had no ambition of turning racing into a career.

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, racing with the Mygale Formula Ford team. After finishing third in his debut year, he moved to Sonic Motorsport(owner Michael Ritter, Brother of Greg Ritter ) 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.

Whincup 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.