A1GP review: Happy days for Adam Carroll

He's gone from cult favourite to A1GP champ with Ireland, and buddied up with The Fonz. Is F1 beckoning now?

Published Jun 30, 2009, 4:47 PM

He's done the hard yards, won the requisite sub-grand-prix-level title in A1GP's World Cup of Motorsport, and earned adulation with some standout race performances. He's given sensible return on his backers' investment. As well as all that, Adam Carroll has risen to something approaching national-hero status. And that's before his new pal The Fonz comes into the equation.

Since wrapping up the A1GP title at Brands Hatch last month, Carroll has been a fixture in the Irish mainstream media circuit. All that was missing, apart from his signature on a Formula 1 team's contract of course, was a celebrity endorsement that sets him apart from the Giorgio Pantanos, Romain Grosjeans and Neel Janis of this world. And who else can say they've got the backing of the coolest character of the immensely popular '50s-inspired US sitcom Happy Days?

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Author Charles Bradley

Charles Bradley is Motorsport.com’s Global Editor in Chief. After spending five years in the aerospace industry in his native North Wales, while working weekends as a freelance writer at racetracks around the UK, Charles joined the staff of Motoring News in the heart of London. He transferred to the nascent Autosport.com team in 2000 before transitioning to the magazine, becoming its Editor between 2011 and 2014. Charles then upped sticks to work in America, as Motorsport.com’s Editor in Chief, where he created the multi-national and multi-lingual editorial team that quickly became the world’s most-read motorsport website. He was instrumental in delivering three of the biggest Global F1 Fan Surveys in sports history and is also a multiple award-winning scriptwriter. Charles is an overseas member of the Guild of Motoring Writers. He lives in Miami Beach with his wife Helen – and a cat that’s named after Serbia’s top football club.