Career History
His first job was assisting his brother Nick in preparing saloon and rally cars near the Brands Hatch racing circuit in England. In the mid seventies the brothers were running at Surtees in the 1976 British F5000 series for race driver Divina Galica. For the 1977 season Whiting joined Hesketh Racing at Easton Neston, near Silverstone. Following the demise of the team, he joined Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham team at Weybridge, where he would stay for the following decade, becoming chief mechanic for the World Drivers' Championship successes of Nelson Piquet in 1981 and 1983 and later rising to chief engineer, while Nick went on to open a Motor Racing spares shop near the Brands Hatch circuit. Nick was murdered in 1990.
In 1988 he became Technical delegate to the FIA Formula One and in 1997 he was appointed FIA Race Director and Safety Delegate.
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