Race Incident

Team Ireland came into the last event of the 2008-09 A1GP event at Brands Hatch with only a two point lead in front of last year’s champions Team Switzerland. Everything was set up for an epic battle between Adam Carroll and Neel Jani. But with two strong wins from Carroll the World Cup went to Ireland 17 point margin. Portugal ended up in third, only three points behind Switzerland.

Ireland’s Adam Carroll said: “It was a perfect weekend for us, it’s what we needed to come here to do, it was the plan so it really did come through. We knew by the pace we set in Portugal that if we came here and everything worked out ok we would be really hard to beat, and that was the way it worked out so it couldn’t have been better.”

“I didn’t get a great start again, it’s really hard to start from pole, but I knew if I stayed where I was there wouldn’t be any bumping in to each other.”

“In the second pit stop the team were nothing to do with why we were slow, the guys did their job but had to hold me because Switzerland was coming in and if they had let me go it would have been very dangerous so we lost some time.”

“The team are just unbelievable, they are the best team on the face of this earth in motorsport and I believe that fully. Their commitment is second to none and we are the best in this pit lane. These guys left on Friday night after 29 hours in the pit lane, that says it all.”