Adam Carroll
Carroll at Brands Hatch in 2009
Nationality	British Irish via dual nationality[1]
Born	(1982-10-26)26 October 1982 (age 43) Portadown,Northern Ireland
GP2 Series career
Debut season	2005
Current team	Super Nova Racing
Racing licence	FIA Gold
Car number	17
Former teams	Racing Engineering FMS International
Starts	72
Wins	5
Poles	1
Fastest laps	3
Best finish	5th in2005
Formula E career
Debut season	2016–17
Current team	Panasonic Jaguar Racing
Car number	47
Starts	12
Championships	0
Poles	0
Fastest laps	0
Best finish	21st in2016–17
Finished last season	21st
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 Norman Carroll (born 26 October 1982^[2]) is a British professional racing driver.^[3][4] He last raced in the2016–17 Formula E season forJaguar Racing. He has also raced forTeam Ireland inA1 Grand Prix, winning the series in2009.

Carroll, who was born inPortadown,Northern Ireland, started his career in 1993 competing inkarting events. He continued in karting until 1998. After winning the Elf LA FILIERE SCHOLARSHIP in 1999 he moved on toBritish Formula Ford, winning the Winter Series and taking 3rd in the festival. He raced in theBritish Formula Ford competition in 2001, before successfully making the move toBritish Formula 3 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.

In 2003, Carroll moved up to Championship ClassBritish Formula 3, but due to lack of finance, he had little stability and finished the year having driven with three different teams (eight podiums in a row with Menu), before competing in part of theFormula 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 futureFormula One driverNico Rosberg in an end of season event inSouth Korea. He continued in Formula Three throughout 2004, finishing as runner up toNelson Piquet Jr. before joining the2005 GP2 Series, replacingHayanari Shimoda at theSuper 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, Carroll still managed to outperform drivers who had funding readily available to them, including 2005 team-mate, and ex F1 driver,Giorgio Pantano. His undoubted talent caught the eye ofFormula One and in 2005 he was signed as a test driver for Formula One teamBAR-Honda. For the 2006 GP2 season he surprised many in choosing to join theRacing 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 asButton andBarrichello 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-placedGianmaria Bruni with Bruni ahead having scored more wins). Carroll scored all of his team's points, outscoring his old teamSuper Nova Racing.

For the start of the 2007 season, Carroll was driving a two-year-oldAudi A4 in the GermanDTM series for theFuturecom TME team.^[5] On 26 June it was announced that he would replaceAntônio Pizzonia in theFMSGP2 team for the event supporting the French Grand Prix.^[6] Carroll won at the Silverstone round of the GP2 series and scored four other points to take a total of thirteen 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.^[7] Carroll also went on to claim victory in the first race at theHungaroring, despite starting sixth and changing all four tires during his mandatory pit stop.^[8] 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.^[9] During this time, Carroll had tested the A1GP car for Ireland, which led to him being signed to race in A1GP. In his first start, he scored Ireland's biggest points haul in the history of A1GP by scored a podium in his first race and despite starting eighteenth on the grid due to being blocked in qualifying, sixth 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 atBrands Hatch, en route to helping Team Ireland finish sixth overall in the championship.

Carroll began the2008 GP2 Series season without a drive, but whenAdrián Vallés was dropped byFMS International after the first round of the season, he took part in four races for his old team.^[10] He was then replaced byMarko Asmer.^[11]

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.^[12] It turned out that the two teams wereCampos Meta andManor GP, both of which were new entries for the 2010 season. Carroll said that he could not raise the 4 million Euros needed to sign for Virgin.^[13] He was also in line for a drive withLola, which was also planning to enter the sport in 2010, but the British marque's entry was turned down.^[14]

IndyCar Series teamAndretti Autosport announced that Carroll was to take part in some races during the second half of the2010 season.^[15] He ultimately competed in theWatkins Glen Grand Prix and theHonda Indy 200, finishing in sixteenth and nineteenth places respectively. He scored 26 points in total and finished the season 34th in the drivers' championship.

On 2 July, Carroll made a one-off appearance in theFormula 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.^[16] He also drove in the Donington round of the Auto GP series taking pole and finishing fifth and second in the races. He then returned toGP2 withSuper Nova Racing for the German round onwards, replacingLuca Filippi.^[17]

Carroll frequented the series during the2015–16 season as a potential substitute driver forMahindra^[18] andTeam Aguri,^[19] neither of which came to fruition.^[20] On 19 August 2016, Carroll was listed as one of four drivers partaking withJaguar Racing in the2016–17 Formula E pre-season test atDonington Park, having tested with the team previously.^[21] Carroll was subsequently signed with the team.^[22]

In the2020–21 Formula E season, Carroll was signed asNIO 333's reserve driver.^[23]

In 2023, Carroll joinedTeam WRT in theGT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup, driving alongside Lewis Proctor and Tim Whale in the team's No. 31 entry.^[24] He also added a part-time campaign in theGT World Challenge America with Esses Racing.^[25]

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Year	Team	Co-Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2016	Gulf Racing	Ben Barker Mike Wainwright	Porsche 911 RSR	GTE Am	328	33rd	5th

Year	Class	Team	Car	Circuit	Pos.
2019	Trofeo Pirelli Pro	Ferrari Budapest -FF Corse	Ferrari 488 Challenge	Mugello Circuit	1st

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