Riccardo Adami

Riccardo Adami

Personal information
Born	(1973-11-27) 27 November 1973 (age 52) Brescia, Lombardy, Italy
Education	Chassis area
Alma mater	University of Brescia
Occupation	Engineer
Years active	2002–present
Sport
Sport	Formula One
Position	Race engineer
Team	Scuderia Ferrari

Riccardo Adami (born 27 November 1973) is an Italian engineer working for Scuderia Ferrari. He is currently the manager of the Ferrari Driver Academy and Ferrari's Testing of Previous Cars program and the former race engineer of Sebastian Vettel, Carlos Sainz Jr. and Lewis Hamilton.

Career

Adami obtained a diploma in chassis area at the University of Brescia in 2001 and worked for Minardi since 2002. ^[1] He worked in several positions throughout the years before ultimately being promoted as the race engineer in 2005. ^[2]

Adami remained with the team after the team was acquired by the Austrian energy drink maker Red Bull and renamed as Scuderia Toro Rosso at the end of 2005. ^[3] During his years working in the Italian team, he race-engineered to several drivers, including Vitantonio Liuzzi, Sebastian Vettel, Sébastien Buemi and Daniel Ricciardo. ^[4]

In 2015, Adami left Toro Rosso and moved to Scuderia Ferrari, working as Vettel's race engineer once again. ^[5] Adami was the race engineer for Carlos Sainz Jr. from 2021 ^[6] until the driver's departure for Williams Racing at the end of 2024. Adami was the race engineer for seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton who joined the team for the 2025 season.

Adami's relationship with Hamilton would receive scrutiny throughout the 2025 season. Adami would be removed from his role as Hamilton's race engineer and reassigned to the Ferrari Driver Academy on 16 January 2026.

References

1. "Bios of 4 of the main engineers in the team". Minardi . 5 December 2004. Archived from the original on 16 Dec 2024. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
2. "Doornbos happy with first day at Minardi". Crash Media Group. 23 July 2005. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
3. van Osten, Phillip (26 August 2017). "Marko frustrated with lack of return on Toro Rosso investment". f1i.com. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
4. Alesci, Andrea. "Riccardo Adami e la Toro Rosso". issuu.com (in Italian). Archived from the original on 16 December 2024. Retrieved 21 June 2020.
5. Garloff, Bianca; Bach, Ralf (20 November 2014). "Offiziell! Vettel wechselt zu Ferrari". Bild (in German). Retrieved 21 June 2020.
6. "How Sainz spent his first day as a Ferrari F1 driver". The Race. 2020-12-18. Retrieved 2020-12-19.