Adam Carroll built on the brilliant work on his Irish pit crew

A day before St Patrick's Day, Ireland became the 15th nation to win an A1GP race as Portadown man Carroll, in his debut season, won by 3.355 seconds.

Carroll started the 47-lap race from fifth on the grid.

The Ulsterman was helped by brilliant work by his team's pit crew during the two compulsory stops.

The race started under a green flag after the first start was aborted due to technical problems with the starting lights.

However, 25-year-old Carroll leapt up the order into second behind Switzerland's Neel Jani following excellent work during the first pit stop.

Ireland stayed behind Switzerland until lap 34 when both drivers pitted for the second compulsory stop, but Carroll emerged ahead of Jani.

Jani was later hit with a drive-through penalty for 'unsafe release' from his second stop after running alongside Carroll as the pair exited the pit lane and eventually finished 19th following a late collision with Pakistan's Adam Khan.

We've put in so much effort and this is for everybody who has believed in A1 Team Ireland Adam Carroll

"It's been three long years for the team," said Carroll.

"We knew they were capable of doing those times and today they pulled it off and it won us the race.

"We've put in so much effort and this is for everybody who has believed in A1 Team Ireland.

"Hopefully this is the first of many - it's just fantastic. I had champagne in my trophy and I don't think the celebrating will stop tonight - it will probably finish sometime tomorrow afternoon, I just hope everybody makes the flight home!"

Jarvis claimed second from fourth on the grid to notch up a second podium finish of the weekend after earlier finishing second behind New Zealand in the sprint race.

He also scored a bonus point for setting the fastest lap of the race to move Great Britain up to fourth in the overall table.

USA's Jonathan Summerton charged through the field from seventh on the grid to finish third ahead of Netherlands' Jeroen Bleekemolen.

Pole-sitters Canada finished fifth, while Portugal, Brazil, India, China, Indonesia rounded out the top-10.