{"id":495947,"date":"2016-10-10T13:58:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T20:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=36976"},"modified":"2024-03-25T00:35:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-25T00:35:43","slug":"tony-adamowicz-1941-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/tony-adamowicz-1941-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Adamowicz (1941-2016)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Champion racing driver Tony Adamowicz, known to many as A2Z, has passed away at the age of 75 following a valiant battle with brain cancer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tony-Adamowicz.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-730578 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tony-Adamowicz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"696\" height=\"1080\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tony-Adamowicz.jpg 696w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tony-Adamowicz-193x300.jpg 193w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tony-Adamowicz-660x1024.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tony-Adamowicz-64x100.jpg 64w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Tony-Adamowicz-293x455.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tony began racing in 1963 with a Volvo 544 sedan, and in 1965 won the SCCA\u2019s Northeast Division B Sedan championship with the same car. His first major professional race victory came at Sebring in 1966 in the Trans-Am\u2019s inaugural event where he and Bob Tullius won the over two-liter class with a Dodge Dart, the same car in which they would win overall at that August\u2019s 12-hour Trans-Am contest at Maryland\u2019s Marlboro Raceway.<\/p>\n<p>In 1968 he piloted Marvin Davidson\u2019s Milestone Racing Porsche 911T to six class wins from 11 races to claim the Trans-Am\u2019s under-two-liter championship. The following year he moved into Formula 5000, still with Milestone, driving an Eagle Mark 5-Chevrolet under the direction of legendary crew chief Carroll Smith, and won that championship as well, making the most of two wins and a string of good finishes to edge David Hobbs for the crown.<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, in his later years he returned to that same car \u2014 upon its restoration by Bill Losee for Doug Magnon of the Riverside International Automotive Museum \u2014 and drove it as a vintage racecar to class and overall championships of the F5000 Drivers Association in both 2011 and 2012.<\/p>\n<p>During his active professional career, Adamowicz raced competitively in Trans-Am, Formula 5000, the World Sports Car Championship (finishing 2<sup>nd<\/sup> at Daytona and 3<sup>rd<\/sup> at Le Mans), Can-Am, Indycars and IMSA GTU, GTO and GTP, finishing up driving Nissans for Don Devendorf and John Knepp\u2019s Electramotive operation. He was also a proud founding executive of the Polish Racing Drivers Association. To his family and many friends in the sport, <em>Vintage Racecar<\/em> extends its most heartfelt condolences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Champion racing driver Tony Adamowicz, known to many as A2Z, has passed away at the age of 75 following a valiant battle with brain cancer. Tony began racing in 1963 with a Volvo 544 sedan, and in 1965 won the SCCA\u2019s Northeast Division B Sedan championship with the same car. His first major professional race victory came at Sebring in 1966 in the Trans-Am\u2019s inaugural event where he and Bob Tullius won the over two-liter class with a Dodge Dart, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":574946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263,18114,18330],"tags":[17152,11319,18435,11598,18107,16791],"class_list":["post-495947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-car-culture","category-people","category-profiles-car-culture","tag-car-culture","tag-formula-5000","tag-people","tag-tony-adamowicz","tag-people-profiles","tag-profiles"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Tony Adamowicz (1941-2016)<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/tony-adamowicz-1941-2016\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Tony Adamowicz (1941-2016)\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Champion racing driver Tony Adamowicz, known to many as A2Z, has passed away at the age of 75 following a valiant battle with brain cancer. 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