Mark Dutton is an Australian motor racing engineer and current team manager of

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. He has engineered

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to five

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series championships. In 2014, he became team manager of Triple Eight.

Career

After studying a mechanical engineering degree at the

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, Mark Dutton became a race engineer at

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in 2001. After Larkham Motorsport, Dutton went to Briggs Motorsport after a break from the sport. In 2007, he became the lead engineer of the Triple Eight

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driven by

. That year, Whincup finished second in the championship behind

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. Dutton then engineered Whincup to five series championships in 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013. In 2014, Dutton was promoted to team manager of Triple Eight Race Engineering under team principal and co-founder Roland Dane.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dutton, Mark Living people Australian motorsport people Queensland University of Technology alumni Year of birth missing (living people)