Forsythe/Pettit Racing
Forsythe Racing was an American automobile racing team, which took in the Champ Car series from 1983 to '85 and from 1994 to 2008. It was also with several interruptions from 1993 to 2008 in the Atlantic Championship and middle active until the late 1990s in the CART Indy Lights Series. Owner of the team was Gerald Forsythe.
For the first time took Forsythe Racing 1983-1985 to the race of the CART series part. Teo Fabi won four races at this time. 1994 returned to the team with Kim Green back as a co-owner under the name Forsythe - Green Racing. However, only one year later, Green and Forsythe parted again.
Green formed his own team and won in 1995 with the poached by Jacques Villeneuve Forsythe both the championship and the Indianapolis 500 Rookie Greg Forsythe committed 1996 Moore, who scored five race wins in 1999 until his fatal accident.
In 1998, Forsythe Racing for the first time a second car one, the Patrick Carpentier drew. Carpentier remained loyal to the team until his move to the Indy Racing League in 2004. 2003 Paul Tracy was signed up and got in the same year with seven wins his first and only Champ Car championship.
2006 Forsythe Racing joined with Paul Tracy and Mario Dominguez in the Champ Car series. Dominguez, however, was already after four races, because of two collisions with Tracy and generally unsatisfactory service, dismissed. To replace AJ Allmendinger was obliged to import several victories in the subsequent period. As Allmendinger announced that he would change the end of the season for NASCAR, Forsythe released him early from his contract. At the last race of the season, therefore, the former Indy 500 winner Buddy Rice and the young Mexican David Martinez were used, while Tracy had to pause injured after an accident with a golf cart.
2007 went mainly Paul Tracy and Oriol Servia for Forsythe in the World Series. The year 2008 was taken as Forsythe / Pettit Racing in attack. After the end of the Champ Car series in early 2008, the team decided not to use in the IndyCar Series and yet appeared in the Atlantic series until the end of the year.
A commitment in the Grand-Am series part of the team came across a test does not exceed the end of 2008.
Forsythe is next to Newman -Haas the only traditional team of the Champ Car series, which has this not turned his back during the crisis years of the Championship and has switched to the IRL or NASCAR.
Gerald Forsythe from 2003 to 2008, together with Paul Gentilozzi and Kevin Kalkhoven owner of the Open Wheel Racing Series ( OWRS ), which hosted the Champ Car series.
Team riders
- United States AJ Allmendinger (2006)
- Canada Lee Bentham (1998, Atlantic Championship )
- Canada Claude Bourbonnais (1993, Atlantic Championship )
- Canada Patrick Carpentier (1998-2004)
- United States Kevin Cogan (1984 )
- Brazil Airton Daré (1999, Indy Lights)
- Mexico Mario Dominguez (2005-2007)
- United States John Edwards (2007, Atlantic Championship )
- Canada David Empringham (1996, Indy Lights)
- Italy Corrado Fabi (1984 )
- Teo Fabi Italy (1983-1984, 1995)
- Mexico Davíd Garza (2008, Atlantic Championship )
- United States Memo Gidley (2000)
- Canada Bertrand Godin (1997, Atlantic Championship )
- United States Bryan Herta (2000-2001)
- Canada James Hinchcliffe (2007-2008, Atlantic Championship )
- United States Howdy Holmes (1985 )
- Brazil Tony Kanaan (1999)
- Netherlands Jan Lammers (1985 )
- Mexico Rodolfo Lavín (2004)
- Brazil Leonardo Maia (2006, Atlantic Championship )
- Mexico David Martínez (2006-2008)
- France Franck Montagny (2008)
- Canada Greg Moore (1996-1999)
- France Richard Philippe (2006, Atlantic Championship )
- Mexico Héctor Rebaque (1982 )
- United States Buddy Rice (2006)
- Spain Oriol Servia (2007)
- United States Danny Sullivan (1982 )
- Alex Tagliani Canada (2000-2002)
- Canada Paul Tracy (2003-2008)
- United States Al Unser Jr. ( 1982)
- Jacques Villeneuve Canada (1994 )
- Canada Robert Wickens (2007, Atlantic Championship )
- Germany Andreas Wirth (2006, Atlantic Championship )