Comments on: Lapped legends: Philippe Adams

By: Hans

Hans — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 21:22:07 +0000

I totally agree with Walter and Philippe. You were following F1 since Senna? I followed Senna and other Schumacher’s as journalist since their kartingyears…
Already in karting it was obvious Adams was a talented guy, in Opel Lotus he was as quick as McNish and Hakkinen and that went on in British F3. And yes, he was proud to race in F1, shouldn’t you be? Ridiculous indeed.

By: Verde

Verde — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 15:17:17 +0000

Philippe? Is it really you?

Don’t be bothered about some unhappy articles. I’ve been supported you since your F3 days and everybody that knows a little bit about motorsport understands that a not-sucessful career in F1 doesn’t mean a lack of quality by the driver.

The biggest difference between you and some others such as Pedro Diniz, Tiago Monteiro and even Andrea de Cesaris is the amount of money (as well as tests and possibilites of having a good car) they could bring to F1.

Cheers!

By: Philippe Adams

Philippe Adams — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:20:55 +0000

Hi Guys,
It is me and I was really impressed about This ridiculous fanatic article.
You forget that I’ve won many good races and never had a good budget so how can you jounalist’s knowing if I as good or bad. I’ve been competing in more than 128 races through my racing carreer and won 32 out of them. Instead of writing stupid articles you better join forces for helping and supporting and finance young coming drivers.

By: Walter

Walter — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:42:18 +0000

Does anybody know that Philippe Adams came to Lotus and only the week prior to the Belgian GP he could test the Lotus 107C for 7 laps at Silverstone?
The test was stopped because the track was flooded.
A week later he could race the 109 at Spa ,a car he’d never driven before.
He had to wear Zanardi’s shoes Size 41 because Philippe’s size 42 wouln’t fit the tub.
He did every race without a race seat because the car was just to small for him.
Please have a look at his first F3 season and find out against who he was competing back then.
Mika Salo,Mika Hakkinen,Damon Hill,Pauk Stewart,Derek Higgins,Steve Roberson etc.
He did it with a very small budget compared to the Marlboro sponsored Mika’s.
He never had a decent budget or a fair chance to become the great champ he could have been .

By: alan

alan — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 07:17:43 +0000

good read thanks – but mention lotus – Iremember the great days as well – it was heart breaking when they fell away

By: Rob Ijbema

Rob Ijbema — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:39:47 +0000

and thanks for the x-mass gift ideas!

By: Rob Ijbema

Rob Ijbema — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 00:38:17 +0000

yes i remember Adams,
at the time i was making models and did some f3′s when he was driving for Bowman.
never thought he would make it to F1 !!!
Nice enough boy,
you should have seen him on the podium when he won the Brands f3 race,he was so happy he went totally mad…embarrassing that was.

great series for the off season!

By: verasaki

verasaki — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 22:14:37 +0000

I’ll second that sentiment. Wow, Simtek. When’s the last we heard that name?

By: Robert McKay

Robert McKay — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 14:20:21 +0000

I like this series, really good stuff

Looking forward to the next installment.