14 Facts About Tony Adamowicz

Anthony Peter Adamowicz was an American racing driver, active from 1963 until his death.

Tony Adamowicz won the Under 2-Liter class of the 1968 Trans-Am Championship and the 1969 SCCA Continental Championship.

Tony Adamowicz was born in 1941 to Polish immigrants in Moriah, New York, and raised in Port Henry, New York.

Tony Adamowicz began his career with the US Army and worked as a communications staffer at the White House during the late 1950s and 1960s.

Tony Adamowicz started racing with a Volvo PV 544 in neighbouring Maryland in 1963.

Tony Adamowicz had an opportunity to race in the 1970 Indianapolis 500, but during the first lap of his qualifying attempt in his Eagle-Offy the yellow light was shown and Adamowicz slowed.

However, the yellow was an error and Tony Adamowicz was ordered to continue with the other 3 laps.

Tony Adamowicz got in another car but crashed in practice before having a chance to requalify.

Tony Adamowicz returned to sports cars, racing TransAm in an Autodynamics Dodge Challenger as teammate to Sam Posey, achieving second place in the 1971 24 Hours of Daytona in a Ferrari 512S, shared with Ronnie Bucknum, and third place in the 1971 24 Hours of Le Mans with Sam Posey in a 512M Also in September 1971 Tony Adamowicz won 12 Horas Marlboro in Yahuarcocha Ecuador in a Ferrari 512S.

Tony Adamowicz returned to prototypes in 1984 but had little success at that level and retired after the 1989 24 Hours of Daytona.

Tony Adamowicz then competed in select vintage races in the same 1969-model Eagle racing car in which he won the 1969 SCCA Continental Championship.

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

Early in 2015, Tony Adamowicz was diagnosed with brain cancer, glioblastoma.

Tony Adamowicz died on October 10,2016, at the age of 75.