Former Seven and 10 CEO James Warburton recently stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of Supercars\u00a0after 11 months in the role.<\/p>\n
The decision was reached by \u201cmutual agreement and was considered to be in the best interests of Supercars as the organisation enters its next phase.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barclay Nettlefold, Chair of RACE, has assumed interim executive oversight as a hunt for a new CEO gets underway.<\/p>\n
Nettlefold said: \u201cOn behalf of the Board, I want to sincerely thank James Warburton for his leadership and contribution to Supercars.<\/p>\n
\u201cJames brought deep experience, energy and commitment to the role, and his return to the business was driven by a genuine belief in the sport and its future.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are grateful for the work he has done over the last year and wish him every success in his next endeavour. As a Board, we remain focused on maintaining momentum and execution as the organisation moves forward.\u201d<\/p>\n
Warburton said: \u201cSupercars is a strong organisation with committed staff, passionate teams and partners, and significant opportunity ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m proud of what the team has achieved and the momentum that we have built for the sport in a short period of time.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wish the RACE Board, our staff and the broader Supercars community every future success for this great sport\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Seven and 10 CEO James Warburton recently stepped down as Chief Executive Officer of Supercars\u00a0after 11 months…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":602809,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,806,805,803,804,85],"class_list":["post-602808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=602808"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602808\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/602809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=602808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}