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IndyCar CEO Randy Bernard said Wednesday that Barnhart will remain president of operations. Bernard’s currently searching for a new race director.

Bernard also said Terry Angstadt has resigned as president of IndyCar’s commercial division. He will be replaced by Marc Koretzky, who has been with the open-wheel series since May as director of corporate business development.

Barnhart struggled this season to maintain the respect of the drivers after a handful of arbitrary decisions.

He returned to racing at New Hampshire when drivers said it was raining too hard to resume the event – and they were proven right with a wreck on the restart.