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Freddy Adam

American Dirt Modified racing driver (born 1931)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ121356727
Source-derived summary

Alfred A. "Freddy" Adam (January 31, 1931 – February 1, 2013) was an American stock car racing driver. Adam centered his racing career on the Mid-Atlantic states, and won three track championships at Hatfield Speedway, as well as the final Modified title at the Dorney Park Speedway in Allentown, both in Pennsylvania.

Racing career

Adam drove for 57 car owners and successfully competed at more than 40 tracks, including Orange County Fair Speedway in Middletown, New York, and Pennsylvania's Evergreen Speedway in St. Johns, Langhorne Speedway, Nazareth Speedway, Penn National Speedway in Grantville, Williams Grove Speedway in Mechanicsburg, and Yellow Jacket Speedway in Philadelphia. He was the only driver to have raced at the Reading Fairgrounds Speedway in every season that Modifieds competed.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Freddy Adam” is american Dirt Modified racing driver (born 1931). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Freddy, Adam and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931, 2013—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1931-01-31. For this dossier, Freddy, Adam and American is the immediate research focus.
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