Philippe Adams

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Philippe Adams ({{#invoke:IPA|main}}; born 19 November 1969) is a Belgian racing driver.<ref name=grandprix-profile>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Career

Early career

Adams was born in Mouscron, Wallonia, Belgium. He first began in motorsport at the age of twelve, racing karts, before beginning in car racing in 1984.<ref name=f1rejects>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 1992, Adams competed in the British Formula 3 Championship, finishing second overall in the season.<ref name=grandprix-profile/> Adams went on to the British Formula Two Series for 1993, winning the championship.<ref name=grandprix-profile/>

Formula One (1994)

File:Philippe Adams' Lotus 109.jpg

Philippe Adams retired from his Formula One race debut on lap 15.

Adams and his backers agreed with Team Lotus to find $500,000 to earn a pay-drive with them for two rounds of the 1994 Formula One season.<ref name=grandprix-profile/> Part of the funding for this came from an insurance policy taken out against his Belgian Procar race at Spa alongside the F1 race, which he won. He retired from the Belgian round, but managed to finish 16th in the Portuguese round.<ref name=grandprix-profile/> In between these two races, regular driver Alessandro Zanardi qualified a strong 13th for his home race. Adams was also intended to race at Jerez, but the team gave the drive back to Zanardi.<ref name=forix>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

After Formula One

Adams never returned to Formula One opting to return to the national scene,<ref name=grandprix-profile/> primarily in production car and sportscar racing.

Racing record

Complete Japanese Formula 3000 results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
1991	CSK Racing	SUZ	AUT	FUJ	MIN	SUZ	SUG	FUJ	SUZ	FUJ	SUZ Template:Small	FUJ	NC	0
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Complete British Formula Two Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	DC	Points
1993	Madgwick International	OUL Template:Small	SIL Template:Small	BHI Template:Small	DON Template:Small	OUL	BHI	SNE	BGP			1st	45
	Argo Racing Cars									THR Template:Small	DON Template:Small

Complete Formula One results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
Template:F1	Team Lotus	Lotus 109	Mugen-Honda V10	BRA	PAC	SMR	MON	ESP	CAN	FRA	GBR	GER	HUN	BEL Template:Small	ITA	POR Template:Small	EUR	JPN	AUS	NC	0
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Complete Super Tourenwagen Cup results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Team	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	Template:Tooltip	Pts
1994	Belgian VW Audi Club	Audi 80 Quattro Competition	AVU	WUN	ZOL 6	ZAN	ÖST	SAL	SPA	NÜR	16th	6
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External links

• Profile on F1 Rejects

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