carroll announced in april 2009 that he was approached by two f1 teams in negotiation for a driver's seat for 2010. it turned out that the two teams were campos meta and manor 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. he was also in line for a drive with lola, which was also planning to enter the sport in 2010, but the british marque's entry was turned down.