Tony Adamowicz

Anthony Peter Adamowicz (May 2, 1941 – October 10, 2016) was an American racing driver, active from 1963 until his death. He won the Under 2-Liter class of the 1968 Trans-Am Championship and the 1969 SCCA Continental Championship.

Early life Adamowicz was born in 1941 to Polish immigrants in Moriah, New York, and raised in Port Henry, New York. He began his career with the US Army and worked as a communications staffer at the White House during the late 1950s and 1960s. Also in September 1971 Adamowicz won 12 Horas Marlboro in Yahuarcocha Ecuador in a Ferrari 512S. After the decline of the Can Am and F5000 formulas, he moved to IMSA series and won the 1979 GTU championship in an Electramotive Nissan 280ZX and 1982 GTO championship in an Electramotive 280ZX-T.

Adamowicz returned to prototypes in 1984 but had little success at that level and retired after the 1989 24 Hours of Daytona. He then competed in select vintage races in the same 1969-model Eagle racing car in which he won the 1969 SCCA Continental Championship. The car is now owned by Doug Magnon, the founder of the Riverside International Automotive Museum, and prepared by mechanic Bill Losee. It bears the identical livery it carried back in 1969. As the Eagle had been parked immediately after the 1969 season, and was not run again until following its restoration in 2008, Adamowicz remained the only driver to actually have driven this car.

Adamowicz was inducted into the National Polish-American Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.

Personal life and death Early in 2015, Adamowicz was diagnosed with brain cancer, glioblastoma. He died on October 10, 2016, at the age of 75.

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