Nick Adams (racing driver)

Nick Adams began historic motorsport in 2014. A Ferguson P99 has been his emergency vehicle since 2016

Nick Adams (born August 7, 1948 in Braunton ) is a former British racing driver .

Racing career

After the early years that Nick Adams spent in sports car club races , his international career began in 1980 in the British Formula Atlantic Championship , which he finished in tenth overall (Champion David Leslie ). After another year in this racing series, he did not return to the race track until 1985.

From 1985 Adams competed almost exclusively in sports car and GT races. He drove in the sports car world championship and made his debut in the 24 Hours of Le Mans that same year . Up until 1995 he had competed nine times in the 24-hour race in western France. It wasn't until his last outing that he managed to finish. Together with Richard Jones and Gérard MacQuillan , he drove a Porsche 911 GT2 to 17th place overall. The best place in the sports car world championship was the 6th final place in the 1000 km race in Suzuka in 1992 , driven out with teammate Ferdinand de Lesseps on a Spice SE89C .

After the end of the world championship in 1992 , Adams moved his activities to British GT series. In 2005 he finished seventh overall in the GT3 class of the British GT Championship . His professional career ended with the end of the 2006 season. In 2014, he started with historic motorsport, where he still competes with a Lola T70 Mk.I Spyder and a Ferguson P99 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1985	Team Labatt	Gebhardt JC853	John Graham	Frank Jelinski	not classified
1986	John Bartlett Racing	Bardon DB1	Richard Jones	Robin Donovan	not classified
1987	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE86C	Richard Jones	Graham Duxbury	not classified
1988	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE86C	Richard Jones	Martin Birrane	failure	Gearbox damage
1989	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE88C	Fermín Vélez	Luigi Taverna	failure	Valve damage
1990	MOMO Gebhardt Racing	Porsche 962C	Giampiero Moretti	Günther Gebhardt	failure	Gearbox damage
1991	Euro Racing Chamberlain	Spice SE89C	Richard Jones	Robin Donovan	failure	Electrical damage
1993	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C	Andy Petery	Hervé Regout	failure	Engine failure
1995	Richard Jones	Porsche 911 GT2	Richard Jones	Gerard MacQuillan	Rank 17

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1985	Gebhardt Engineering ADA Engineering	Gebhardt JC853	MUG	MON	SIL	LEM	HOK	MOS	SPA	BRH	FUJ	SEL
					14th	DNF				10
1986	Bartlett Racing Gebhardt Motorsport	Bardon DB1 Gebhardt JC853	MON	SIL	LEM	NOW	BRH	JER	ONLY	SPA	FUJ
				DNF	DNF			DNF	DNF
1987	Chamberlain Engineering Spice Engineering	Spice SE86C Spice SE87C	JAR	JER	MON	SIL	LEM	NOW	BRH	ONLY	SPA	FUJ
					DNF	DNF	DNF	8th	15th	16	20th
1988	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE86C	JER	JAR	MON	SIL	LEM	BRÜ	BRH	ONLY	SPA	FUJ	SAN
			DNF	12	DNF	DNF	DNF	10	DNF	14th	9		9
1989	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE86C Spice SE89C	SUZ	DIJ	JAR	BRH	ONLY	DON	SPA	MEX
			23	11	13	8th	DNF	15th	13	14th
1990	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE90C Spice SE89C	SUZ	MON	SIL	SPA	DIJ	ONLY	DON	MOT	MEX
				DNF	17th	DNF	14th	DNF	DNF
1991	Euro Racing	Spice SE89C	SUZ	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	LIKE	MEX	AUT
						DNF
1992	Chamberlain Engineering	Spice SE89C	MON	SIL	LEM	DON	SUZ	LIKE
							6th	7th

Web links

• Nick Adams at Historic Racing
• Nick Adams at the Driver Database
• Nick Adams at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ British Formula Atlantic Championship 1980
2. ↑ British GT Championship 2005