Bill Adam

Bill Adam in the Jaguar XJR-5 at the 1983 IMSA GTP race at Sears Point

Bill Adam (born May 25, 1946 in Airdrie ) is a retired Canadian racing car driver .

Career in motorsport

Bill Adam was born in Scotland and immigrated to Canada with his parents in the 1950s. He lived in Oakville for many years . Although his parents had absolutely no interest in automobiles, he was already enthusiastic about vehicles as a teenager. A family friend took him to a sports car race in Mosport in 1961 ; it was there that Adam first came into contact with racing.

He has been in motorsport since the 1970s. In 1971 he received his first racing license and bought his first racing car, a Chevrolet Corvette . He first competed in amateur races and began a professional racing career in 1975. It made its first international appearance at the 6-hour race at Watkins Glen , a race in the 1975 World Sports Car Championship . Together with John Greenwood he was eighteenth overall. In 1980 he was a teammate of Bob Tullius in the Group 44 racing team and competed in the IMSA GTP series with the GTO Triumph TR8 . Some of these races were also part of the sports car world championship in the early 1980s . In 1981 he was tenth in the Sebring 12-hour race ; he retired at the 6-hour race in Mosport .

From 1983 the Group 44 race management started using Jaguar XJR-5 . In 1983, he and Tullius won the 500 km of Road Atlanta , the 3-hour race of Lime Rock and the 6-hour race of Mosport .

Adam entered the race once in the Le Mans 24-hour race. In 1980 he and his teammates Jacques Bienvenue and Douglas Rowe missed the race qualification. In 1987 he left the company prematurely as a partner of Scott Goodyear and Richard Spénard after an engine failure on the Porsche 962C .

Bill Adam competed in sports car races until 2004 and then retired from racing.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1987	Brun Motorsport	Porsche 962C	Scott Goodyear	Richard Spénard	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1980	Group 44	Triumph TR8	Bob Tullius		Rank 6 and class win
1981	Group 44	Triumph TR8	Bob Tullius		Rank 10
1983	Group 44	Jaguar XJR-5	Bob Tullius		failure	Engine failure
1984	Whitehall Promotions	Porsche 924 Carrera GTR	Tom Winters	Bob Bergstrom	failure	suspension
1990	DSR Motorsports	Porsche 962 GTi	Scott Harrington	David Seabroke	failure	accident
1994	Champion Porsche	Porsche 911 Turbo	John Paul Junior	Victor Gonzales	failure	mechanics
1995	Champion Porsche	Porsche 911 GT2	Hans-Joachim Stuck		Rank 6
1996	Champion Porsche	Porsche 911 GT2 Evo	Hans-Joachim Stuck		Rank 6 and class win
1997	Champion Porsche	Porsche 911 GT2 Evo	Hans-Joachim Stuck		failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th
1975	John Greenwood	Chevrolet Corvette	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SPA	BY	ONLY	ZEL	WAT
											DNF
1977	Dead Bear Racing	Chevrolet Corvette	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SIL	ONLY	VAL	BY	WAT	EST	LEC	MOS	IMO	SAL	BRH	HOK	VAL
														DNF
1980	Group 44	Triumph TR8	DAY	BRH	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	VAL	DIJ
					6th			26th							8th	7th
1981	Group 44 Carter Racing	Triumph TR8 Chevrolet Camaro	DAY	SEB	MUG	MON	RIV	SIL	ONLY	LEM	BY	DAY	WAT	SPA	MOS	ROA	BRH
				10											DNF
1984	Kremer Racing	Porsche 956	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	BRH	MOS	SPA	IMO	FUJ	KYA	SAN
								DNF
1987	Brun Motorsport	Porsche 962	JAR	JER	MON	SIL	LEM	NOW	BRH	ONLY	SPA	FUJ
							DNF

Web links

Commons : Bill Adam  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Bill Adam at the Driver Database

Individual evidence

1. ^ 6 Hours of Watkins Glen 1975
2. Jump up ↑ 1983 500km Road Atlanta race
3. ↑ 1983 Lime Rock 3 Hours
4. ↑ 6-hour race at Mosport in 1983