His racing career culminated in 1979 when he won a closely contested Australian Formula 2 championship driving one of his own Cheetah Mk6s.
[2] Shead’s 1988 win of the Australian Drivers’ Championship and CAMS Gold Star was one of the five consecutive Formula 2 titles achieved with his Cheetah products.
Shead worked with the Federation Internationale de l’Automobile (FIA) and inspected top-grade race tracks around the world.
[3] He was the chairman of the National Track Safety Committee for the Confederation of Australian Motorsport, and a life member of CAMS.
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