Forsythe Championship Racing
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Forsythe Championship Racing is a racing team in the Champ Car World Series owned by Gerald Forsythe.
[edit] Team History
The team first operated as Forsythe Racing from 1983 to 1985 with moderate success, most notably with rookie driver Teo Fabi who won four races in 1983. The team returned in 1994 as Forsythe-Green Racing with co-owner Kim Green, but by the next year the two had split and Green took their driver Jacques Villeneuve to his new Team Green and won the 1995 Indianapolis 500 and CART championship. The team signed rookie Greg Moore in 1996 and he would drive with them for the next four seasons until his tragic death at the end of the 1999 season. Along the way Moore would capture five wins and place fifth in the 1998 points standings.
In 1998 the team expanded to two cars by adding Patrick Carpentier to the all-Canadian squad. Carpentier would drive for Forsythe until 2004 (when he jumped ship to the rival Indy Racing League) and capture five wins with the team. In 2003, veteran Paul Tracy was brought on to replace Alex Tagliani. Tracy would win 7 races on his way to bringing Forsythe its first CART championship in CART's final year of operations. In 2006, Mario Dominguez, who had replaced Carpentier, was fired mid-season and Forsythe brought in displaced American A. 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 to NASCAR Nextel Cup with Red Bull Racing. Forsythe would later announce Dominguez's return to his team on March 30.
[edit] Drivers who competed for Forsythe
A. J. Allmendinger (2006)
Patrick Carpentier (1998-2004)- Kevin Cogan (1984)
Mario Dominguez (2005-2006,2007)
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)
- Greg Moore (1996-1999)
Jan Lammers (1985)- John Paul, Jr. (1985)
- Hector Rebaque (1982)
- Buddy Rice (2006)
- Danny Sullivan (1982)
- Alex Tagliani (2000-2002)
- Paul Tracy (2003-2006)
- Al Unser, Jr. (1982)
- Jacques Villeneuve (1994)
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| 2007 Champ Car World Series | |||||||||
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| Newman/Haas | Forsythe | Minardi | Australia | PKV | RSPORTS | Coyne | Conquest | PCM | |
| 1 Bourdais 2 Rahal |
3 Tracy 7 Dominguez |
4 Clarke 14 Doornbos |
5 Power 15 Pagenaud |
6 Gommendy 21 Jani |
8 Tagliani 9 Wilson |
11 TBA 19 TBA |
27 TBA | 28 Dalziel 29 Figge |
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| Las Vegas - Long Beach - Houston - Portland - Cleveland - Mont-Tremblant - Toronto - Edmonton - San Jose - Road America - Assen - Zolder - Surfers Paradise - Zhuhai - Mexico City - Phoenix | |||||||||
