Adam Christodoulou

Adam Christodoulou
Christodoulou as his Formula Renault car is inspected at Oulton Park.
Nationality	British
Born	(1989-06-11) 11 June 1989 Lichfield, Staffordshire
Related to	Riki Christodoulou (Cousin)
Rolex Sports Car Series career
Debut season	2010
Current team	SpeedSource/Newman Wachs Racing
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Car number	68
Previous series
2006–2008 2007 2009	Formula Renault UK Formula Renault NEC Star Mazda
Championship titles
2008 2009	Formula Renault UK Star Mazda

Adam Robert Christodoulou (born 11 June 1989) is a British and Greek racing driver who competes in the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie for Team Getspeed as a factory driver for Mercedes.

Christodoulou is known for his successes at the Nürburgring 24 Hours, which include an overall win in 2016. In his junior career, he won the 2008 British Formula Renault Championship and the 2009 Star Mazda Championship. His cousin Riki Christodoulou is also a racing driver, having competed in British Formula 3 Championship.

Christodoulou began his racing career in karting in Britain. His first competitive success came in the 2001 Kartmasters British Grand Prix - comer cadet^[1] where he came 1st in class, the first of many accolades in his burgeoning career.

However in 2006 an MSA court found that Christodoulou had competed in a meeting at Rowrah on 5 June 2005 using illegally-modified engines. These had been modified by Peter Christodoulou whose actions resulted in a fine of £30,000.^[2]

Christodoulou began his career in single seater racing in the 2006 Formula Renault UK Winter Series and gained 4th place at Croft round 2, race 1 and managed a fastest lap at Croft round 2, race 2.

In the 2007 British Formula Renault Championship, Adam had the most podium finishes in Europe and the UK out of any rookie driver, he came fourth overall and won the coveted graduate cup^[3] with a prize of £15,000. (He came behind Duncan Tappy, Dean Smith and Will Bratt). During this year he was invited to become a BRDC young driver.

During the Formula Renault 2.0 UK Winter Series 2007 he finished 3rd.

In 2007 Christodoulou also competed in the Formula Renault 2.0 Northern European Cup, and although he only took part in 4 rounds, he still gained podium finishes and came 8th out of 44.

Back in the British Formula Renault Championship for 2008, Adam finished the season with 7 wins, 4 new lap records and 11 podium finishes. On 21 September he secured the UK Formula Renault 2.0 Championship title with 472 points.

During this year Adam's team, CR Scuderia, was managed by Andrew Kirkaldy who races the FIA GT and the team principal, Chris Niarchos, of the Cobra Group also races in the FIA GT series alongside Tim Mullen and Rob Bell of the CR Scuderia team.

In December 2008 he was one of six finalists for the prestigious McLaren Autosport BRDC Award, and won the Autosport Awards British Club Driver 2008.^[4]

In 2009, Christodoulou competed in the Star Mazda series, a single seater class in the US, and won the championship, with 3 wins and 9 podium finishes. He has again been nominated for the McLaren Autosport BRDC Award. He will test an Indy Lights car for Sam Schmidt Motorsports in October 2009 after having previously tested for Bryan Herta Autosport in the same series.^[5]

For 2010, he ran in the Rolex Sports Car Series GT class for Newman Wachs Racing with co-driver John Edwards.^[6]

Christodoulou competed in the 2013 Blancpain Endurance Series driving for Black Falcon. He finished sixth in the Pro-Am class, with a class podium coming in the opening race at Monza.^[7] Alongside his Blancpain drive, Christodoulou competed in the 2013 VLN Series, where his results included a stream of three podiums in a row.^[8]

2014 was his first year participating in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring in the top class, SP9. However, he retired from the race after 14 hours as a wheel fell off the car. He attempted to make repairs himself but was unable to do so.^[9]

In 2016, he took his first win in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, driving for Black Falcon with Maro Engel, Manuel Metzger and Bernd Schneider. The team started from the ninth row, but they drove a clean race during wet conditions, and an overtake from Engel on the final lap saw them stand on the top step of the podium.^[9]

He entered the 2017 Blancpain GT Series Endurance Cup with the Black Falcon team. He finished nineteenth overall in the standings, including a eighth-place finish at the 24 Hours of Spa.^[10] He also returned to the British GT Championship, joining Team ABBA for the second half of the season, where he took a best result of fifth at Silverstone.^[11]

After the COVID-19 pandemic prevented the majorty of motorsports events from taking place in early 2020, he returned to a racecar for the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, taking two wins in the shortened campaign.^[12]

For the 2022 season, Christodoulou partnered with Reema Juffali in the International GT Open, driving for Juffali's Theeba Motorsport team. The pair took four class wins and three overall podiums during the campaign, finishing as runners-up in the Pro-Am class.^[13][14]

After winning the opening race of the prelude,^[15] Christodoulou finished fourth in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, having led the race at some points in the first twelve hours.^[16] He then competed in the second half of the 2023 GT World Challenge America for Bartone Bros Racing with RealTime, partnering Anthony Bartone. Together, the pair finished 12th in the Pro/Am class, with their best result being a class podium (and sixth overall) in the second race at Road America.^[17] He ended the year in the Greater Bay Area GT4 Cup, held as part of the Macau Grand Prix events, claiming second place in the international debut for the Lotus Emira GT4 after qualifying on pole.^[18][19]

He entered the opening round of the 2024 GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup for Boutsen VDS, which he finished in 16th.^[20] He then returned to the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, performing double duty in the two Team Getspeed SP9 cars.^[21] However, he would suffer misfortune in both, with the #130 retiring due to suspension damage and the #8 following soon after when Christodoulou left the track and damaged the air filter.^[22]

In 2025, Christodoulou moved to the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, driving for Mercedes-AMG Team Getspeed in the SP9 class. He was also named as an 'expert driver' for the Mercedes factory team.^[23] He began the season with an appearance at the Bathurst 12 Hour, driving in the GT4 category for Team Nineteen, and finished the race in 16th overall.^[24] In the 24 Hours of Nürburgring, his team ran near the front of the pack for much of the race, but ultimately finished forty laps behind the leaders after making multiple long stops for repairs.^[25]

Adam competed in the "race4charity" celebrity kart race organised by BP Ultimate at the Autosport International show in 2008.^[26] Adam broke the lap record and his team won the charity event where they raced against such drivers as Allan McNish, Paul di Resta, Sam Bird and Nathan Caratti amongst others.

† As Christodoulou was a guest driver, he was ineligible to score points.

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• Official website
• Adam Christodoulou driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• Adam Christodoulou career summary at DriverDB.com
• Report on Christodoulou's ban from Karting