No more will his Holden Commodore clutter his Mosgiel workshop and instead it will be well looked after by Timaru-based race engineer Ross Anderson.
Adams supplies the transporter and Anderson takes care of the rest.
Rather than taking a week out of his schedule to drive up and back from the New Zealand V8s opening meeting at the Taupo Motorsport Park this weekend, he will hop on a plane today and be home on Sunday night.
Adams' other major change going into his second season is joining Tasman Motorsport's New Zealand arm, AV8 Motorsport, which is run by race car engineer Wayne Anderson and NZV8 racer Andy Booth.
Through using a new Anderson-built engine and sharing data with the top Holden teams - "that is where the big gains are" - Adams is looking to push up into the first 15 finishers.
He wound up 27th out of 33 full-season contenders last year but in 2008/09, he lines up against only 27 others on the first race's start grid.
The diminished field is a "sign of the times", where the sponsorship dollar is harder to extract and has seen Otago V8 driver Michael Wallace take a break for the first time in six years.
Adams made the decision to do the seven-round season, plus the non-championship Hamilton event, three months ago after confirming the same backers to help him raise the $150,000 he needed.
"The crucial thing is to keep communicating with your sponsors," he said, adding that Dunedin people are "right into" supporting motorsport.
A lung disease, which had him seriously doubting a return to racing this year has been treated using steroids and Adams said he feels fit "and mentally great".
However, the last pre-season weeks have been a scramble to get the frustratingly late-to-arrive control components (brakes, gearbox, shock absorbers and motor parts) into the car.
Testing at Levels Raceway to run in the new engine and bed in brakes happened only 10 days ago.
In a parity-providing gesture, the Holdens have been supplied with a new suspension package, designed to give them cornering speed more equal to the Fords.
The result was Adams' Commodore was "going around corners like it was on rails."
