{"id":776103,"date":"2026-07-03T08:43:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/776103\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:43:13","slug":"ex-supercars-boss-james-warburton-takes-up-race-track-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/776103\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Supercars boss James Warburton takes up race track role"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tJames Warburton. Image: Richard Gresham <\/p>\n

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The executive made a sudden departure from Supercars in April<\/a>, less than a year after resuming the position he\u2019d previously held from 2013-17.<\/p>\n

Warburton has now agreed to become a consultant for the South Australian circuit, working alongside owner Sam Shahin.<\/p>\n

The role\u2019s focus is said to be on growing the venue\u2019s corporate, motoring and events business beyond its core motorsport operations.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been fortunate to work with world-class sporting facilities throughout my career, but The Bend genuinely stopped me in my tracks,\u201d said Warburton.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat Sam and the team have built in regional South Australia is extraordinary, it is a world-class precinct that deserves to be leveraged far beyond race weekends.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am excited to work alongside Sam to unlock that potential.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Warburton was at the helm of Supercars when a deal was struck for The Bend to join the calendar after it opened in 2018.<\/p>\n

\u201cJames has an exceptional track record of building commercial value around major sporting assets,\u201d said Shahin.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe go back a long way, and I have always respected his vision and his ability to connect the right people.<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving him alongside me as we grow the non-core areas of our business is a real asset for The Bend.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Warburton. Image: Richard Gresham The executive made a sudden departure from Supercars in April, less than a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":776104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,16965,806,805,803,804,12357,85],"class_list":["post-776103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-james-warburton","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-slot1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776103","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=776103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/776103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/776104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=776103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=776103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=776103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}