Forsythe Racing

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Bryan Herta's Forsythe car 2001
Paul Tracy 2006 in the light blue and white car typical of Forsythe
Tracy in the Champ-Car-Panoz 2008
Wickens' Formula Atlantic racing car in the 2007 Red Bull colors

Forsythe Racing was an American automobile racing team that competed in the Champ Car series from 1983 to '85 and from 1994 to 2008 . It was also active with several interruptions from 1993 to 2008 in the Atlantic Championship and in the mid to late 1990s in the CART Indy Lights Series . The team was owned by Gerald Forsythe .

Forsythe Racing first took part in the races of the CART series from 1983 to 1985 . Teo Fabi was able to win four races during this time. In 1994 the team returned with Kim Green as co-owner under the name Forsythe-Green Racing . However, a year later, Green and Forsythe separated again.

Green founded his own team and won both the championship and the Indianapolis 500 in 1995 with Jacques Villeneuve , who was poached by Forsythe . Forsythe signed rookie Greg Moore in 1996 , who was able to achieve five race victories before his fatal accident in 1999 .

In 1998 Forsythe Racing used a second car for the first time, driven by Patrick Carpentier . Carpentier stayed with the team until he moved to the Indy Racing League in 2004. 2003 was Paul Tracy contracted and brought in the same year with seven wins his first and only Champ Car championship.

In 2006 Forsythe Racing competed in the Champ Car series with Paul Tracy and Mario Domínguez . Dominguez was released after four races because of two collisions with Tracy and generally unsatisfactory performance. AJ Allmendinger was signed as a replacement, who subsequently achieved several victories. When Allmendinger announced that he would switch to NASCAR at the end of the season , Forsythe released him prematurely from his contract. In the last race of the season, the former Indy 500 winner Buddy Rice and the young Mexican David Martínez were used, while Tracy had to take a break after an accident with a golf cart .

In 2007 mainly Paul Tracy and Oriol Servià drove for Forsythe in the World Series. The year 2008 was tackled as Forsythe / Pettit Racing . After the end of the Champ Car series at the beginning of 2008, the team did not participate in the IndyCar Series and competed in the Atlantic Series until the end of the year.

A commitment in the Grand-Am series on the part of the team did not get beyond a test at the end of 2008.

Next to Newman-Haas, Forsythe is the only traditional team in the Champ Car series that did not turn its back on the championship during the crisis years and switched to the IRL or NASCAR.

Gerald Forsythe owned the Open Wheel Racing Series (OWRS), which organized the Champ Car series, from 2003 to 2008 together with Paul Gentilozzi and Kevin Kalkhoven .

Driver of the team

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Forsythe Championship Racing. champcaratlantic.com, archived from the original on December 7, 2006 ; Retrieved February 9, 2012 .
  2. ↑ Indy Lights 1990 - 2001. (PDF; 31 kB) (No longer available online.) Helenaracing.com, archived from the original on October 5, 2013 ; Retrieved February 9, 2012 .
  3. ↑ Tracy's injury just latest in a string of Forsythe follies. sports.espn.go.com, November 7, 2006, accessed February 9, 2012 .
  4. ^ Forsythe and Pettit Join Forces. forsythe-racing.com, November 26, 2007, archived from the original on February 28, 2008 ; Retrieved February 9, 2012 .
  5. ↑ Fusion: Forsythe gets out. motorsport-total.com, February 28, 2008, accessed February 9, 2012 .
  6. ↑ Costa Joins Fittipaldi for Forsythe in Test. grand-am.com, October 29, 2008, accessed February 9, 2012 .

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