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Mark Skaife
Skaife at the Australian GP in 2006
Nationality
Australian
Born
(1967-04-03) 3 April 1967 (age 57) Gosford, New South Wales, Australia
Supercars Championship career
Championships
5 (1992, 1994, 2000, 2001, 2002)
Races
479
Wins
90
Podiums
203
Pole positions
41
Mark Stephen SkaifeOAM (born 3 April 1967) is an Australian former racing driver. Skaife is a five-time champion of the V8 Supercar Championship Series, including its predecessor, the Australian Touring Car Championship, as well as a six-time Bathurst 1000 winner. On 29 October 2008, he announced his retirement from full-time touring car racing.[1] Since retiring from driving, Skaife has worked as a commentator and presenter for the series for both the Seven Network and Fox Sports Australia.
He is the director of motorsport for design and engineering consultancy - IEDM, which oversaw the reconfiguration of Albert Park Circuit[2] - for which he has been working since he retired from racing. [3]
^Guy Hand (29 October 2008). "Skaife announces retirement from V8s". FoxSportsNews. Archived from the original on 12 October 2009. Retrieved 29 October 2008.
^The Evolution of Albert Park: The Brand New F1® Australian Grand Prix Circuit - Episode 01, retrieved 29 January 2022
^Skaife, Mark (1 August 2010). Skaifey: Life In The Fast Lane (with Andrew Clarke). Ebury Press/Random House Group. p. 189. ISBN 9781741668995.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: date and year (link)
Mark Stephen Skaife OAM (born 3 April 1967) is an Australian former racing driver. Skaife is a five-time champion of the V8 Supercar Championship Series...
worldwide. Gibson's lead drivers, Jim Richards and MarkSkaife, easily won the 1991 Bathurst 1000; Skaife had set a sensational time of 2:12.63 in the Top...
is estimated to cost $80,000-$120,000. Skaife, Mark (1 December 2011). Car of the Future Evolution by MarkSkaife. V8Supercars.com.au. Archived from the...
in 1998, a round of the Australian Touring Car Championship (ATCC). MarkSkaife had been on course to take victory in the opening race when an engine...
Skaife is an English surname, a variant of the surname Scaife. Notable people with the surname include: MarkSkaife (born 1967), retired Australian motor...
(at the expense of Murphy) alongside new teammate and former champion MarkSkaife. Picking up where he left off, Lowndes went on to win his second consecutive...
endurance events with Murphy, while MarkSkaife co-drove with Brock. Lowndes and Murphy won the Sandown 500 while despite Skaife winning pole at both events,...
20-year-old MarkSkaife, who had previously shown good form finishing second in the 1985 and 1986 Ford Laser series held at Amaroo Park. Skaife, who had...
commentary team, working alongside Matthew White, Neil Crompton, MarkSkaife and Mark Larkham. Beretta returned to commentary in 2021 when Seven resumed...
Russell Ingall and MarkSkaife, which has since been dubbed the "race rage" incident or the "shriek at the creek". Ingall and Skaife made contact exiting...
dehydration. The 2000 event once again saw a last-to-first drive, with MarkSkaife winning the Sunday race after starting 38th due to a DNF on Saturday...
Bright 257 4 Russell Ingall 253 5 Todd Kelly 243 6 Rick Kelly 229 7 John Bowe 226 8 MarkSkaife 220 9 Fabian Coulthard 214 10 Peter Brock 210 Source:...
Drivers' Championship and was the only driver to take a win away from MarkSkaife. The following year Larkham imported a Reynard 90D, the first driver...
the HSV Dealer Team and the Holden Racing Team for bad sportsmanship – MarkSkaife was given a bad sportsmanship flag in Race 1 for blocking Lowndes, while...
three. In practice for the 1995 event, the Winfield-backed entry of MarkSkaife had a major accident at Turn 1, hitting concrete drag racing barriers...
Holden race was held at the Mallala Motor Sport Park in South Australia. Mark McLaughlin driving an Elfin FA891, designed and built at the Elfin factory...
for the 1997 V8 Supercars race but the time was set by his co-driver MarkSkaife. His record at this race earned him the popular nickname King of the...
two regular hosts; journalist Greg Rust and former championship-winner MarkSkaife. They were normally joined on the panel by a rotating selection of two...
last round where he was beaten by now five-time championship winner MarkSkaife. After winning the famous Bathurst 1000 race in 2000 with Jason Bargwanna...
regulations. The race was won for the second year in a row by Jim Richards and MarkSkaife driving a Gibson Motor Sport prepared Nissan Skyline GT-R, the pair becoming...
Championship and the 1991 Australian Manufacturers' Championship. Nissan driver MarkSkaife became the first driver since Peter Brock in 1983 to claim provisional...
running in the very challenging Safari Rally 1988 and Safari Rally 1989. MarkSkaife won the 1987 Australian 2.0 Litre Touring Car Championship driving a...
of Oran Park in the V8 Supercar Championship Series. Allan Moffat and MarkSkaife are the most successful drivers at Oran Park in the ATCC, with six round...
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