Andrea de Adamich

Andrea de Adamich
Nationality	Italian
Years	1968, 1970 - 1973
Team(s)	Ferrari, McLaren, March, Surtees, Brabham
Races	36 (29 starts)
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podiums	0
Points	6
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1968 South African Grand Prix
First win
Last win
Last race	1973 British Grand Prix

Andrea de Adamich (born October 3, 1941) is a former racing driver from Italy. He participated in 34 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on January 1, 1968. He scored a total of 6 championship points. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races.

De Adamich was born in Trieste. He was an accomplished saloon and sport-car racer who performed solidly when asked to race in F1 where he was one of the few drivers to have worn spectacles to race.

Andrea de Adamich 1974 at Nürburgring driving Alfa Romeo 33 TT 12

He won the 1966 European Touring Car Championship at the start of a long relationship with Alfa Romeo and made his GP debut in the 1968 South African race when his Ferrari spun off on oil. Later in the season he won a South American F2 tournament with Ferrari but was not retained by the Italian giants and he returned to the Alfa Romeo fold as they entered F1 supplying engines to a third works McLaren. De Adamich only finished once in 1970 in the McLaren-Alfa and had no more luck the following year when the Alfa engine deal switched to March.

1972 saw De Adamich attract sponsorship to join the Surtees team and he finished a good 4th in the Spanish GP at Jarama and he repeated that placing the following year in the Belgian GP at Zolder in a sponsored Brabham.

1973 saw the end of De Adamich's GP career, mainly due to injuries sustained in a multiple pile-up at the British GP. He retired the following year and became a respected motor sport journalist and TV pundit in his native Italy (now he leads the TV sport program "Grand Prix" on Italia 1).

Currently, he is the vice-president of N. Technology which prepares race cars for Alfa Romeo.

Complete World Championship Formula One results

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Yr	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	WDC	Points
1968	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 312/67	Ferrari V12	RSA Ret	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX				NC	0
1970	Bruce McLaren Motor Racing	McLaren M7D	Alfa Romeo V8	RSA	ESP DNQ	MON DNQ	BEL		FRA NC	GBR DNS									28th	0
		McLaren M14D						NED DNQ			GER DNQ	AUT 12	ITA 8	CAN Ret	USA DNQ	MEX
1971	STP March	March 711	Alfa Romeo V8	RSA 13	ESP Ret	MON	NED	FRA Ret	GBR NC	GER Ret	AUT	ITA Ret	CAN	USA 11					30th	0
1972	Ceramica Pagnossin Team Surtees	Surtees TS9B	Cosworth V8	ARG Ret	RSA NC	ESP 4	MON 7	BEL Ret	FRA 14	GBR Ret	GER 13	AUT 14	ITA Ret	CAN Ret	USA Ret				17th	3
1973	Ceramica Pagnossin Team Surtees	Surtees TS9B	Cosworth V8	ARG	BRA	RSA 8													16th	3
	Ceramica Pagnossin MRD	Brabham BT37					ESP Ret	BEL 4	MON 7	SWE	FRA Ret
		Brabham BT42										GBR DNS	NED	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA