Motorsport: Burgess weighing up his offers

Adrian Burgess and James Courtney during this year's Clipsal 500. Photo / Getty Images

Former Walkinshaw Racing boss Adrian Burgess is currently weighing up offers to stay in Supercars along with some external options after being stood down from his post nearly a fortnight ago.

Burgess had been with the Holden outfit for three and a half years before team management opted to go in a different direction after a disastrous round at Barbagallo earlier this month.

"They wanted a change of direction, which I can understand and I am not crying about that," Burgess told Radio Sport. "I am not upset - I'm a big boy and I have been doing this a long time.

"They wanted to go in a different direction, which is fine. So we had a chat and decided it wasn't really the way forward for each of us.

"I'm now in a little bit of a holding pattern - I'm still under contract there so now at the moment I am just sitting back and watching it on the TV."

Burgess had a successful career in Formula 1 before arriving in Australia and working with firstly the Dick Johnson Racing outfit, Triple Eight Racing and finally Walkinshaw Racing across the last decade.

He has received plenty of support from the Supercars community since the announcement he was leaving.

"It has been really nice and reassuring and good to see the level of support I have had on social media but equally just friends within the business - whether it is drivers or other teams or sponsors texting me," Burgess said.

Burgess has some options open to him and will weigh up what he wants to do next before selecting from his choices.

"There's been a few offers and a few discussions appear in the past week but at the moment I am sitting back letting those discussions start to come to a point where I can sit down and make a decision what I do next.

"I will certainly go racing. I have always been racing - it is all I have done and is all I ever will do.

"There are a couple of offers in Supercars, there's a couple of offers outside of Supercars and there is an offer back in Europe but I don't want to rush.

"You have got to look at all the information in front of you and make the best decision going forwards.

"I'm just doing my homework at the moment and hopefully I will make my decision in the next few weeks or month or two."