Trevor Carlin

Trevor John Carlin (born 13 March 1963) is a British motorsports team manager. He founded Carlin Motorsport and ran the team under that name (1996-2008), Carlin (2009-2022) and Rodin Carlin.

Career As a schoolboy in Hertfordshire, Carlin began working as a gofer with the PRS Formula Ford 1600 company of his uncles Vic and Steve Hollman. After leaving school, he worked with PRS as a mechanic, building the company's FF1600 and Formula Ford 2000 cars. He then joined Formula 2 and 3 powerhouse Ralt, Carlin returned from the USA to act as team manager. With WSR, Carlin won British F3 races with Marc Goossens, Vincent Radermecker and Cristiano da Matta.

For 1996, WSR switched from F3 to the British Touring Car Championship as the works team for Ford, with Paul Radisich and Robertson driving. The project was underfunded and uncompetitive, and Carlin left. Along with AMT founder Martin Stone, he began running the Williams Pitstop Challenge for the F1 team – a travelling road show. Burgess also joined Jordan as sporting director, while Hieatt left Carlin Motorsport to establish Räikkönen Robertson Racing with the Robertson family. Carlin left Jordan in the middle of the 2005 season, The team had also become established as a leading contender in World Series by Nissan and then World Series by Renault, winning races with drivers including Tiago Monteiro, Will Power, Sebastian Vettel and Robert Wickens. Further race victories had come in Porsche Supercup in 2001 (the team run by Carlin's uncle Steve Hollman) and in Formula BMW UK from 2004-07. and Rupert Swallow, but continued as team principal of the squad, which was now rebranded simply as Carlin. In 2011, the team moved into a new facility on the outskirts of Farnham.

With Carlin leading from the front, the team continued under the umbrella of Capsicum until early 2023, when the Capsicum share transferred to Rodin Cars impresario David Dicker.

During the 2010-2023 period, Carlin took the team into F3 Euro Series/FIA European F3, GP2/Formula 2, GP3/FIA Formula 3, Formula E (one season running Mahindra’s team), British F4, BRDC British F3/GB3, Euroformula Open, Asian Le Mans Series, Spanish F4 and F1 Academy. Carlin also established a US arm to compete first in Indy Lights and then in IndyCar with Max Chilton, initially in the former premises of Dyson Racing in New York State and then in Florida. This closed at the end of 2021.

Further championship wins in the 2010-2023 period in Carlin-run cars were achieved by Mikhail Aleshin (2010 World Series by Renault), Jean-Éric Vergne (2010 British F3), Robert Wickens (2011 World Series by Renault), Felipe Nasr (2011 British F3), Jack Harvey (2012 British F3), Antonio Felix da Costa (2012 and 2016 Macau GP), Jordan King (2013 British F3), Alex Lynn (2014 GP3), Lando Norris (2015 British F4 and 2017 FIA F3 European Championship), Ed Jones (2016 Indy Lights), Max Fewtrell (2016 British F4), Jamie Caroline (2017 British F4), Zane Maloney (2019 British F4), Zak O'Sullivan (2021 GB3), Callum Voisin (2023 GB3) and Louis Sharp (2023 British F4).

Under Carlin as team principal, the Carlin team secured overall victory in almost 500 races from 1999 to 2023. No fewer than 28 of its graduates have gone on to race in F1: Sebastian Vettel, Lando Norris, George Russell, Carlos Sainz Jr., Daniel Ricciardo, Yuki Tsunoda, Kevin Magnussen, Nico Rosberg, Robert Kubica, Takuma Sato, Bruno Senna, Anthony Davidson, Narain Karthikeyan, Tiago Monteiro, Marcus Ericsson, Antonio Giovinazzi, Daniil Kvyat, Jean-Éric Vergne, Jaime Alguersuari, Sébastien Buemi, Jolyon Palmer, Felipe Nasr, Brendon Hartley, Max Chilton, Logan Sargeant, Nicholas Latifi, Will Stevens and Rio Haryanto.

Those to drive under Carlin at his team have also claimed IndyCar championship titles (Will Power and Josef Newgarden), Indy 500 victories (Sato, Power, Ericsson and Newgarden), Le Mans 24 Hours wins (Buemi, Hartley, Giovinazzi and James Calado), and top-class World Endurance Championship crowns (Buemi, Davidson and Hartley).