Mark Winterbottom
| Mark Winterbottom | |
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Mark Winterbottom at the Sydney 500 in 2015
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| Nationality |
 Australian
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| Born |
20 May 1981 (age 35) Sydney, New South Wales |
| Supercars Record | |
| Car number | 5 |
| Current team | Prodrive Racing Australia |
| Series championships | 1 (2015) |
| Races | 413 |
| Race wins | 38 |
| Podium finishes | 140 |
| Pole positions | 35 |
| 2016 Championship position | 6th (2489 pts) |
Mark "Frosty" Winterbottom (born 20 May, 1981) is an Australian professional racing driver. He currently competes in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship, driving the No. 5 Ford FG X Falcon for Prodrive Racing Australia. His career highlights include winning the 2013 Supercheap Auto Bathurst 1000 (with Steven Richards) and twice winning the Sandown 500, in 2006 and 2015. Winterbottom has also won his maiden championship title in the 2015 International V8 Supercars Championship, making it the first title for Ford in five years.
Made his motorsport debut racing motorbikes, racing in club level 50 cc events, progressing to the 80 cc class and competing in fields that included riders Anthony Gobert and Chad Reed. Winterbottom raced whenever he could between his soccer commitments. Raced a dirt Mini-Speedcar and won the NSW and ACT State Championships.
Competed in his first kart race in the Cadet class at Wollongong (NSW) and would continue racing karts successfully to the age of 21. Winterbottom won ten Australian Kart Championships and 25 state Kart Championships during his rise through Australia's karting ranks. Winterbottom's national titles were six Clubman Light titles, three Junior National Lights titles and one Junior Clubman title.
In 1998, Winterbottom visited America on a family holiday and heard about a major karting event taking place close by – so a last-minute decision was made to rent a kart locally and compete. Winterbottom then won the Knoxville State Championship title race. In 1999 he competed in Japan at the Suzuka Champions Kart race on invitation.
In 2001 Winterbottom was crowned as Australian Formula A Kart Champion (Rotax 125cc Class).
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