The Australian Supercars Championship has declared that Shane Howard, who is the CEO of motorsport, will leave the company in 2024.

Shane Howard, an English engineer, began working for the organizing body in October 2018 after serving as a Supercar paddock employee for many teams.

Supercars announced his departure and stated that it intends to appoint a new technical director and performance engineer, along with a replacement head of motorsport.

Supercars CEO Shane Howard praised Burgess’s work, saying: Adrian has made a vital contribution to our sport.

Adrian has put in a lot of effort in recent years to handle the technical and motorsport operations of one of the top categories in the world.

Throughout the last five years, he has made a substantial contribution and been an essential member of the Motorsport Team and the company.

We would want to thank Adrian from the bottom of our hearts for all of his efforts to advance our racing product.

Since joining Dick Johnson Racing in 2006 and winning the championship alongside James Courtney in 2010 as the sporting director, Burgess has been living in Australia for nearly 20 years. He then went on to win three more titles in a row while serving as the team principal at Triple Eight.

After serving as managing director of Walkinshaw Racing for three and a half years (2014–2017), he briefly worked at Tekno Autosports before returning to the organization in October 2018.

It has been a very difficult decision for me to make, but one I am comfortable with at this moment, Burgess stated.

I will always be grateful for the time I spent at Supercars, and I’m very delighted to have managed the dedicated technical and motorsport departments in recent years.

After his team’s cars were disqualified in a 1-2 finish, Whincup claimed that Burgess had approved the installation of a dry ice radiator on the driver’s side of the vehicles to help with driver cooling. Burgess refuted this claim.

In August of this year, he was charged with driving three times over the legal alcohol limit. He was fined $1200 and had his driving privileges banned for six months.