We use the RecordActivated event

Hi,
You can try to register MouseDownEvent instead of Click event for the CarouselPanelItem class.

public Window1()
{
     InitializeComponent();
     //register the event
     EventManager.RegisterClassHandler (typeof  (CarouselPanelItem), CarouselPanelItem.MouseDownEvent, 
 new MouseButtonEventHandler(OnCarouselPanelItemMouseDown));
}

//your event handler
private static void OnCarouselPanelItemMouseDown(object sender, MouseButtonEventArgs e)
{
 
}

Regards

Vlad