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Whitaker worked for FIA Presidents Jean-Marie Balestre and Max Mosley for Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One Management, McLaren International and as Director of Motorsport for Ford Motor Company.
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In 2009, ArabianBusiness.com listed
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Whitaker was born to a fruit farming family from the West of
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