Forsythe Championship Racing was an American racing team that competed in theChamp Car World Series owned byGerald Forsythe. The Champ Car effort ceased operations after the 2008 unification of North American open wheel racing. The team won the2003 championship with driverPaul Tracy.

Forsythe Championship Racing

Founded	1982
Folded	2008
Teamprincipal(s)	Gerald Forsythe
Former series	Champ Car World Series Indy Lights Champ Car Atlantic Championship
Noted drivers	Danny Sullivan Al Unser Jr. Teo Fabi Jacques Villeneuve Greg Moore Tony Kanaan Patrick Carpentier Alex Tagliani Bryan Herta Paul Tracy A. J. Allmendinger
Drivers' Championships	Champ Car World Series2003Paul Tracy Indy Lights 1995Greg Moore 1996David Empringham Atlantic Championship 1998Lee Bentham

Forsythe Racing began sponsoringLee Brayton's entry for his sonScott in 1981. Forsythe later started his own team, racing in CART part-time in 1982 withHéctor Rebaque andDanny Sullivan who drove for the team in the1982 Indianapolis 500 and finished 13th and 14th, respectively. Later that season Rebaque won atRoad America. Before Indy, Sullivan finished third atAtlanta Motor Speedway. Also that seasonAl Unser Jr. made his CART debut for the team atRiverside International Raceway and finished fifth. Moderate success continued from 1983 to 1985, most notably with rookie driverTeo Fabi who won four races in 1983, and started on thepole position atIndianapolis.

The team returned in 1994 asForsythe-Green Racing with co-owner Barry Green, but by the next year the two had split and Green took their driverJacques Villeneuve and Canadian cigarette sponsorPlayer's LTD to his newTeam Green and won the 1995Indianapolis 500 and CART championship. Forsythe reunited with Teo Fabi in a full-time effort in 1995 with Combustion Engineering sponsoring their team. Forsythe did keep sponsor Player's LTD for his Indy Lights team and CanadianGreg Moore brought home the 1995 Indy Lights championship for Forsythe. Moore tested a Champ Car for Team Penske late in 1995 so Forsythe quickly signed Moore to run their single 1996 Champ Car entry with Player's moving back from the Team Green squad as Villeneuve left IndyCar forFormula One. Moore would drive with Forsythe for the five seasons in total, one inIndy Lights where he would win 10 of 12 races, and four inChamp Car until his death at the end of the 1999 season. In Champ Car, Moore would capture five wins and place a best of fifth in the 1998 points standings, all with Forsythe Racing.

In 1998, the team expanded to two cars by addingPatrick Carpentier to the all-Canadian squad. Carpentier would drive for Forsythe through 2004 when he was hired byCheever Racing of the rivalIndy Racing League for 2005. Patrick captured five wins with the team. For 2000, Forsythe tabbed rookieAlex Tagliani to drive alongside Carpentier. In three seasons, Tagliani scored three poles and five podiums but no wins, so Alex was replaced by veteranPaul Tracy for the 2003 season. Tracy would win seven races on his way to bringing Forsythe its first CART championship in CART's final year of operations. In 2006,Mario Domínguez, who had replaced Carpentier, was fired mid-season and Forsythe brought in displaced AmericanA. J. Allmendinger. Allmendinger proceeded to win his first three races with the team, his first Champ Car victories. Allmendinger was teammates with Paul Tracy who finished fourth in points in 2004 and 2005 after his championship-winning season. However, Allmendinger and the team were not able to come to terms for 2007 and Allmendinger announced he would be going toNASCARNextel Cup withTeam Red Bull. Forsythe would later announce Dominguez's return to his team on March 30. Dominguez, however, was replaced byOriol Servià on a race by race basis until Servia was hired full-time. For the 2008 season, Jerry Forsythe and formerRuSPORT owner Dan Pettit, were to merge their teams intoForsythe/Pettit Racing to field at least two cars.^[1] However, changes brought about the unification of open wheel racing into theIndyCar Series. This made competitive racing financially unviable in the eyes of Forsythe and he elected not to race in the IndyCar Series in 2008. The team's Atlantic operation, Forsythe Racing continued to contest that series through the end of the 2008 season and the team fielded three of the team'sPanoz DP01 chassis in the2008 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.^[2]

On July 15, 2008 Forsythe Racing announced that they would return to the Firestone Indy Lights Series grid in 2009. According to additional reports, Forsythe Racing were close to finalizing IRL IndyCar Series and American Le Mans Series programs for 2009, according to team manager Ken Swieck. Swieck confirmed that Forsythe intended to compete in both series rather than choosing one or the other.^[3] However, Forsythe never fielded any entries in either series.

The Forsythe team and its derivatives have amassed 34 CART and Champ Car victories and single championship in2003 with CanadianPaul Tracy.

•  A. J. Allmendinger (2006)
•  Patrick Carpentier (1998–2004)
•  Kevin Cogan (1984)
•  Mario Domínguez (2005–2007)
•  Corrado Fabi (1984)
•  Teo Fabi (1983–1984, 1995)
•  Memo Gidley (2000)
•  Bryan Herta (2000–2001)
•  Howdy Holmes (1985)
•  Tony Kanaan (1999)
•  Rodolfo Lavin (2004)
•  David Martínez (2006–2008)
•  Franck Montagny (2008)
•  Greg Moore (1996–1999)
•  Jan Lammers (1985)
•  John Paul Jr. (1985)
•  Héctor Rebaque (1982)
•  Buddy Rice (2006)
•  Oriol Servià (2007)
•  Danny Sullivan (1982)
•  Alex Tagliani (2000–2002)
•  Paul Tracy (2003–2008)
•  Al Unser Jr. (1982)
•  Jacques Villeneuve (1994)
•  Lee Bentham (1997-1999)

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• Note: this does not include the win achieved byJacques Villeneuve atRoad America in1994 as a driver ofForsythe-Green Racing.

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