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Adam Carroll
Nationality	British
Born	(1982-10-26) 26 October 1982 (age 42) Portadown (Northern Ireland)
GP2 Series career
Debut season	2005
Current team	Super Nova Racing
Car number	17
Former teams	Racing Engineering FMS International
Starts	72
Wins	5
Poles	1
Fastest laps	3
Best finish	5th in 2005
Previous series
2011 2011 2010 2007-2009 2007 2005 2003 2002–2004 2000–2001 2000 1999 1999	Auto GP Formula Renault 3.5 IndyCar A1 Grand Prix DTM Formula One test driver Formula Three Euroseries British F3 British Formula Ford British FFord Winter Series Formula Renault Campus France Formula Palmer Audi Winter Series
Championship titles
2008–09 2002 2000	A1 Grand Prix British F3 National Class British FFord Winter Series

Adam Carroll (born 26 October 1982) is a Northern Irish racing driver. He currently races in the GP2 Series for Super Nova and in Auto GP for Campos Racing, making his debut with pole position at Donington Park. He has also raced for Team Ireland in A1 Grand Prix, winning the series in 2009.

In 2010, Carroll made two appearances in the Izod IndyCar Series racing for Andretti Autosport and his long-term ambition is to race in the US-based series.

Career history

Early career

Carroll, who was born in Portadown, Northern Ireland, started his career in 1993 competing in karting events. He continued in karting until 1999. After a year without doing anything notable he returned, winning the 2000 British Formula Ford Winter Series. He moved on to the British Formula Ford competition in 2001, before successfully making the move to British Formula Three B-Class in 2002 with the Sweeney team. Despite driving year-old cars, Carroll was always an outright front runner and he dominated the class winning the title with a record points tally.

International racing

In 2003, Carroll moved up to Championship Class British Formula Three, but due to lack of finance, he had little stability and finished the year having driven with three different teams, before competing in part of the Formula Three Euroseries season, where despite being new to both team, series, track and tyres, he finished in the points in his first race. He also partnered and outperformed future Formula One driver Nico Rosberg in an end of season event in South Korea. He continued in Formula Three throughout 2004, finishing as runner up to Nelson Piquet, Jr. before joining the 2005 GP2 Series, replacing Hayanari Shimoda at the Super Nova Racing team just before the start of the season.

Although Carroll's pre-season preparation for GP2 left him at a disadvantage to all the other drivers due to the lateness of his race deal and consequent lack of testing with his new team, he was immediately competitive, briefly challenging for the championship before slipping back as the season progressed due to reliability setbacks and on-track incidents.

Despite continually having trouble raising a budget for his racing, he has still managed to outperform drivers who have had funding readily available to them, including 2005 team-mate, and ex F1 driver, Giorgio Pantano. His undoubted talent caught the eye of Formula One and in 2005 he was signed as a test driver for Formula One team BAR-Honda. For the 2006 GP2 season he surprised many in choosing to join the Racing Engineering team when his previous team had a better chance of picking up the title. It soon became clear that due to Carroll's continued lack of sponsorship, the Racing Engineering deal saved him from having to drop out of top line motorsport altogether. He has since removed himself from the Honda driver program sensing a lack of opportunity as Button and Barrichello would be hard to replace.

The only real high point of the 2006 season was a pole position, third place and second place combo at Silverstone. It was clear throughout the season, however, that Carroll's team was not as strong as the majority of the other teams in the series. This was highlighted many times due to car failures that cost him many points throughout the year. As well as this, the car was distinctly slower and he also had trouble with other drivers hitting him from behind. This coupled with a driver error while leading race two in Hungary cost Carroll a lot of points that, should he have gained them, he would have been in contention for at least third in the championship. As it was though, Carroll's 33 points was enough to give him eighth place (equal points with seventh-placed Gianmaria Bruni with Bruni ahead having scored more wins). Carroll scored all of his team's points, outscoring his old team Super Nova Racing.

DTM, GP2 & A1GP

For the start of the 2007 season, Carroll was driving a two year old Audi A4 in the German DTM series for the Futurecom TME team. On 26 June it was announced that he would replace Antônio Pizzonia in the FMS GP2 team for the event supporting the French Grand Prix. Carroll won at the Silverstone round of the GP2 series and scored 4 other points to take a total of 13 in one weekend, only his second back in GP2, in a car that had only scored one point beforehand. It was announced on 13 July that he had left the DTM due to sponsorship problems, and concentrated on GP2 for the rest of 2007. Carroll also went on to claim victory in the first race at the Hungaroring, despite starting sixth and changing all four tires during his mandatory pit stop. The season did not end so well for Carroll, as he scored only 2 points in the last three races despite being in contention for much more. However, he did finish in seventh place, ahead of many drivers who, unlike Carroll, had completed the entire season. During this time, Adam had tested the A1GP car for Ireland, impressing everyone at Silverstone and so for the second event onwards, Adam signed up to race in A1GP. His first weekend demonstrated yet again what a talent he was as he got Ireland's biggest points haul in the history of A1GP by netting a podium in his first race and despite starting 18th on the grid due to being blocked in qualifying, 6th in the feature race. Later in the season, he won the Mexico City feature race, Ireland's first win in A1GP. He also finished on the podium at Brands Hatch, en route to helping Team Ireland finish 6th overall in the championship.

Carroll began the 2008 GP2 Series season without a drive, but when Adrián Vallés was dropped by FMS International after the first round of the season, he took part in four races for his old team. He was then replaced by Marko Asmer.

For 2008/2009, Carroll returned to A1GP and Team Ireland again leading them to victory for the first time, in China. A1 Team Ireland became the fourth A1 Grand Prix champions, after a title battle which went down to the final round in Great Britain. Ireland won with 112 points, all scored by Carroll and included five race victories and three fastest laps.

Carroll announced in April 2009 that he was approached by two F1 teams in negotiation for a driver's seat for 2010. It turned out that the two teams were Campos Meta and Manor GP, both of which were new entries for the 2010 season. Carroll said that he could not raise the 4 million Euros neeeded to sign for Virgin. He was also in line for a drive with Lola, which was also planning to enter the sport in 2010, but the British marque's entry was turned down.

IndyCar

IndyCar Series team Andretti Autosport announced that Carroll was to take part in some races during the second half of the 2010 season. He ultimately competed in the Watkins Glen Grand Prix and the Honda Indy 200, finishing in 16th and 19th places respectively. He scored 26 points in total and finished the season 34th in the drivers' championship.

2011

On July 2, Carroll made a one-off appearance in the Formula Renault 3.5 Series at the sixth round of the championship where he finished fourth and third in the two races. This was in place of the injured Austrian driver, Walter Grubmüller. He also drove at in the Donington round of the Auto GP series taking pole and finshing 5th and 2nd in the races. He then returned to GP2 with Super Nova Racing for the German round replacing Luca Filippi.

Racing record

Complete British Formula Three results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Formula Three Euroseries results

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Complete GP2 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete DTM results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete A1 Grand Prix results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	DC	Points
2007–08	Ireland	NED SPR	NED FEA	CZE SPR 3	CZE FEA 6	MYS SPR 7	MYS FEA 7	ZHU SPR 4	ZHU FEA 16	NZL SPR 6	NZL FEA 5	AUS SPR 15	AUS FEA 13	RSA SPR 15	RSA FEA Ret	MEX SPR 4	MEX FEA 1	SHA SPR 11	SHA FEA 3	GBR SPR 3	GBR FEA 13	6th	94
2008–09		NLD SPR Ret	NLD FEA Ret	CHN SPR 1	CHN FEA 2	MYS SPR 5	MYS FEA 1	NZL SPR 1	NZL FEA 2	RSA SPR 4	RSA FEA Ret	POR SPR 2	POR FEA 5	GBR SPR 1	GBR FEA 1							1st	112

American open–wheel results

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IndyCar

Year	Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	Rank	Points
2010	Andretti Autosport	SAO	STP	ALA	LBH	KAN	INDY	TXS	IOW	WGL 16	TOR	EDM	MDO 19	SNM	CHI	KTY	MOT	HMS	34th	26

Complete Formula Renault 3.5 Series results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Complete Auto GP Results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

References

1. "Q&A with Adam Carroll". britsonpole.com. 2008-05-31. Retrieved 2009-04-16.
2. "Adam Carroll". Motorsport. Adam Carroll Racing. Retrieved 2010-12-30.
3. "Adam Carrol joins Campos Racing". Auto GP. 14 July 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
4. Jamie O'Leary (14 July 2011). "Adam Carroll to make Auto GP debut at Donington Park with Campos". Autosport. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
5. "Carroll gets final Audi seat". Autosport. 12 April 2007. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
6. "autosport.com – GP2 News: Carroll replaces Pizzonia at FMS". Autosport.
7. "Adam Carroll Not To Take Part In DTM Series For The Rest Of The Season". autoracingdaily.com. 2007-07-13. Retrieved 2007-07-13.
8. "autosport.com – GP2 News: Carroll wins chaotic race in Hungary". Autosport.
9. :::Race Control:::
10. "Carroll: Simple to say yes". crash.net. 2008-05-07. Retrieved 2008-05-07.
11. "Asmer to race in GP2 with FMS". autosport.com. 2008-06-10. Retrieved 2008-06-10.
12. Carroll eyes Formula One chance BBC Sport, 23 April 2009. Retrieved on 2009-04-23
13. Doing it the hard way - Sky Sports
14. Glendenning, Mark (2011-08-25). "Insight: Lola's F1 Car - Best F1 team you never saw". Autosport. 205 (8): 46–49.
15. Andretti Autosport signs Adam carroll to limited 2010 Izod IndyCar Series schedule – Andretti Autosport, April 29, 2010
16. Peter Mills (30 June 2011). "Adam Carroll to make FR3.5 debut at the Hungaroring". Autosport. Retrieved 15 July 2011.
17. http://www.gp2series.com/News-Room/News/2011/07_July/Adam-Carroll-joins-Super-Nova-Racing/

External links

• Official website

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• 1982 births
• Living people
• People from Portadown
• Racecar drivers from Northern Ireland
• McLaren Autosport BRDC Award nominees
• Formula Palmer Audi drivers
• Formula Ford drivers
• British Formula Three Championship drivers
• Formula Three Euroseries drivers
• GP2 Series drivers
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• A1 Team Ireland drivers
• Indy Racing League drivers
• People educated at Killicomaine Junior High School
• Formula Renault 3.5 Series drivers
• Euro Formula 3000 drivers