Jonathan Adam

Jonathan Adam
Adam at the 2009 BTCC Festival in Edinburgh.
Nationality	British
Born	(1984-09-04) 4 September 1984 Kirkcaldy (Scotland)
British GT Championship career
Debut season	2011
Current team	Beechdean Motorsport
Car no.	007
Starts	48
Wins	8
Poles	8
Fastest laps	7
Best finish	1st in 2015
Previous series
2015 2014 2009 2006–08 2004–05 2003 2003	World Endurance Championship Blancpain Sprint Series BTCC SEAT Cupra Championship Clio Cup GB Formula Renault UK Formula Ford Zetec Scotland
Championship titles
2015 2007-08 2005 2004	British GT SEAT Cupra Championship Clio Cup GB Clio Winter Series

Jonathan Adam (born 4 September 1984 in Kirkcaldy, Fife) is a British racing driver. He was the champion of the SEAT Cupra Championship in two of its six seasons – winning in 2007 and in 2008. He also won the 2005 Elf Renault Clio Cup. He competed in the British Touring Car Championship in 2009 and currently competes in the British GT Championship, winning the 2015 championship.

Career history

Early career

Adam began his career in karting, winning the 1999 Scottish Kart TKM challenge, and he finished 5th overall in the British Kart Championship (100 National) in 2002, and also went on to win the "Summerlee" championship at Larkhall.

In 2003, Jonathan finished 3rd overall in the Scottish Formula Ford Zetec Championship, however he was 2nd and 5pts behind Ryan Cannon in the Newcomer's Cup.^[1]

Clio Cup

Adam moved into the Renault Clio Cup in 2004, and after a season long battle with Ed Pead and Paul Rivett, it was the latter who took the title after Adam failed to finish in the penultimate race at Donington Park.^[2] Jonathan eventually finished 3rd in the championship.

Adam then took 4 podiums, including a win, to become the Clio Cup Winter series champion.

2005 saw him resume his battle with Pead in the Clios, which took the championship down to the final meeting of the year at Donington Park, where Adam clinched it with a race to spare.

SEAT Cupra Championship

Adam leads Martin Byford at the Croft round of the 2008 SEAT Cupra Championship.

Jonathan competed in another one-makes series in 2006, this time the SEAT Cupra Championship. He finished 3rd, in a competitive series with would-be 2007 BTCC driver Mat Jackson and Alan Blencowe finishing ahead of him in the standings.

In 2007, Adam continued in the championship, driving in the top Leon Cupra R class, and sealed the title with 3 races to go at his home circuit of Knockhill,^[3] taking 9 wins and 17 podium from the 20 races. He remains in the SEAT Cupra Championship for 2008. At Knockhill he took a double hat-trick – 2 poles, 2 victories, 2 fastest laps, although he remained 14 points behind championship leader Robert Lawson.^[4] He eventually won the championship for the second year in succession.

British Touring Car Championship

Adam joined the British Touring Car Championship in 2009, driving a BMW 320si for Motorbase Performance.^[5] At the first round of the season at Brands Hatch he was first past the chequered flag in the third race of the day, only to be penalised for hitting Jason Plato when he passed the 2001 champion for the lead.

British GT Championship

Unable to find funding to continue in the BTCC, Adam moved to the British GT Championship to drive an Aston Martin DBRS9 for Beechdean Motorsport for 2011.^[6] Adam and co-driver Andrew Howard took their maiden win that season at Rockingham in wet conditions.^[7] They took pole position at the final race of the season at Silverstone and went on to take the win, allowing to finish the season 3rd in the GT3 standings.^[8]

Adam is once again teaming up with Howard for 2012, now driving Beechdean's Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3.^[9] They took the first win for the new car in the third race of the season at the Nürburgring.^[10]

Racing record

Complete British Touring Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position – 1 point awarded just in first race) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap – 1 point awarded all races) (* signifies that driver lead race for at least one lap – 1 point awarded all races)

Complete British GT Championship results

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

† Driver did not finish, but was classified as he completed 90% race distance.

Complete Blancpain Sprint Series results

Complete FIA World Endurance Championship results

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

References

External links

• Official website
• Jonathan Adam on Twitter
• Jonathan Adam on Facebook
• Jonathan Adam career summary at DriverDB.com