Forsythe/Pettit Racing

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United States Forsythe/Pettit Racing
Founded 1982
Team principal(s) Gerald Forsythe
Former series Champ Car World Series
Indy Lights
Champ Car Atlantic Championship
Noted drivers Canada Paul Tracy
Mexico David Martínez
France Franck Montagny
Drivers'
Championships		 Champ Car World Series 2003 Canada Paul Tracy

Indy Lights
1995 Canada Greg Moore
1996 Canada David Empringham

Atlantic Championship

1998 Canada Lee Bentham
Folded 2007
Bryan Herta's #77 Forsythe Reynard at Rockingham Motor Speedway in 2001

Forsythe/Pettit Racing was a racing team that competed in the Champ Car World Series owned by Gerald Forsythe and Dan Pettit. The Champ Car effort ceased operations after the 2008 unification of North American open wheel racing.

History

1981–1985

Forsythe Racing began sponsoring Lee Brayton's entry for his son Scott in 1981. Forsythe later started his own team, racing in CART part-time in 1982 with Héctor Rebaque and Danny Sullivan who drove for the team in the 1982 Indianapolis 500 and finished 13th and 14th, respectively. Later that season Rebaque won at Road America. Before Indy, Sullivan finished third at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Also that season Al Unser, Jr. made his CART debut for the team at Riverside International Raceway and finished fifth. Moderate success continued from 1983 to 1985, most notably with rookie driver Teo Fabi who won four races in 1983, and started on the pole position at Indianapolis.

1994–1997

The team returned in 1994 as Forsythe-Green Racing with co-owner Barry Green, but by the next year the two had split and Green took their driver Jacques Villeneuve and Canadian cigarette sponsor Player's LTD to his new Team Green and won the 1995 Indianapolis 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 Canadian Greg 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 for Formula One. Moore would drive with Forsythe for the five seasons in total, one in Indy Lights where he would win 10 of 12 races, and four in Champ 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.

1998–2008

In 1998 the team expanded to two cars by adding Patrick Carpentier to the all-Canadian squad. Carpentier would drive for Forsythe through 2004 when he was hired by Cheever Racing of the rival Indy Racing League for 2005. Patrick captured five wins with the team. For 2000, Forsythe tabbed rookie Alex Tagliani to drive alongside Carpentier. In three seasons, "Tags" would score three poles, five podiums, but no wins so Alex was replaced by veteran Paul Tracy for the 2003 season. 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 Domínguez, 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 Team Red Bull. Forsythe would later announce Dominguez's return to his team on March 30. Dominguez, however, was replaced by Oriol Servià on a race by race basis until Servia was hired full-time. For the 2008 season, Jerry Forsythe and former RuSPORT owner Dan Pettit, were to merge their teams into Forsythe/Pettit Racing to field at least two cars.[1] However, changes brought about the unification of open wheel racing into the IndyCar Series 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 3 of the team's Panoz DP01 chassis in the 2008 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.

Statistics

The Forsythe team and its derivatives have amassed 37 CART and Champ Car victories and single championship in 2003 with Canadian Paul Tracy.

Drivers who competed for Forsythe

Racing results

Complete CART / Champ Car World Series results

(key) (results in bold indicate pole position) (results in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Chassis Engine Drivers No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20
1982 March 82C Cosworth DFX V8t PHX ATL MIL CLE MCH MIL POC RIV ROA MCH PHX
Mexico Héctor Rebaque 32 13 DNS 18 25 DNP 20 1
United States Danny Sullivan 33 3 21
United States Al Unser, Jr. 5
1983 March 83C Cosworth DFX V8t ATL INDY MIL CLE MCH ROA POC RIV MDO MCH CPL LAG PHX
Italy Teo Fabi 33 20 26 4 3 15 15 1* 2 1* 3 25 1* 1*
1984 March 84C Cosworth DFX V8t LBH PHX INDY MIL POR MEA CLE MCH ROA POC MDO SAN MCH PHX LAG CPL
Italy Teo Fabi 33 Ret Ret Ret 12 3 Ret 13
United States Kevin Cogan 8 10 DNQ
Lola T800 Italy Corrado Fabi Ret 10 6 Ret
United Kingdom Kenneth Acheson DNQ
1985 Lola T900 Cosworth DFX V8t LBH INDY MIL POR MEA CLE MCH ROA POC MDO SAN MCH LAG PHX MIA
Netherlands Jan Lammers 32 5 20
33 13
United States Howdy Holmes 14 10 11 17 13 22 9 10 21 16 21 18 DNS
1995 Reynard 95i Ford XB V8t MIA SFR PHX LBH NAZ INDY MIL DET POR ROA TOR CLE MCH MDO NHA VAN LAG
Italy Teo Fabi 33 16 13 7 3 7 8 4 7 23 9 4 19 4 17 12 19 9
1996 Reynard 96i Mercedes-Benz IC108C V8t MIA RIO SFR LBH NAZ 500 MIL DET POR CLE TOR MCH MDO ROA VAN LAG
Canada Greg Moore 99 7 18 3 22 2 13 5 20 25 3 4 17 9 23 25 6
1997 Reynard 97i Mercedes-Benz IC108D V8t MIA SFR LBH NAZ RIO GAT MIL DET POR CLE TOR MCH MDO ROA VAN LAG FON
Canada Greg Moore 99 4 2 23 16 2 13 1* 1 5 24 23 27 2 18 17 24 13
1998 Reynard 98i Mercedes-Benz IC108E V8t MIA MOT LBH NAZ RIO GAT MIL DET POR CLE TOR MCH MDO ROA VAN LAG HOU SFR FON
Canada Patrick Carpentier 33 11 19 28 13 17 15 25 15 9 9 25 8 7 28 27 17 22 9 26
Canada Greg Moore 99 2 4 6 3 1 3 13 5 27 25 11 1 22 21 20 21 26 8 2
1999 Reynard 99i Mercedes-Benz IC108E V8t MIA MOT LBH NAZ RIO GAT MIL POR CLE ROA TOR MCH DET MDO CHI VAN LAG HOU SRF FON
Canada Patrick Carpentier 33 7 26 17 14 6 22 9 9 7 22 11 10 23 6 2 9 19 24 25
Canada Greg Moore 99 1* 4 8 12 8 6 2 13 18 4 20 23 3 11 26 20 23 16 17 26
Honda HRS V8t Brazil Tony Kanaan 44 21 6 22* 23 5 7 18 15 22 6 17 1 6 23 11 9 21 9 6 8
2000 Reynard 2Ki Ford XF V8t MIA LBH RIO MOT NAZ MIL DET POR CLE TOR MCH CHI MDO ROA VAN LAG GAT HOU SRF FON
Canada Patrick Carpentier 32 5 21 3 5 10 5 7 4 14 7 21 24 9 2 19 5 14
United States Memo Gidley 21 8 18
Canada Alex Tagliani 33 9 4 13* 15 19 22 6 13 16 5 16 9 9 14* 18 23 14 16 22 6
2001 Reynard 01i Ford XF V8t MTY LBH NAZ MOT MIL DET POR CLE TOR MCH CHI MDO ROA VAN LAU ROC HOU LAG SRF FON
Canada Patrick Carpentier 32 25 23 25 19 17 8 5 26 21 1 2 3 9 16 3 16 10 26 11 10
Canada Alex Tagliani 33 21 18 22 22 12 21 12 9 2 6 6 7 8 23* 21 14 19 15 3 3
United States Bryan Herta 77 16 10 21 21 22 15 14 3 18 5 21 25 24 17 27 15 13 12 18 25
2002 Reynard 02i Ford XF V8t MTY LBH MOT MIL LAG POR CHI TOR CLE VAN MDO ROA MTL DEN ROC MIA SFR FON MXC
Canada Patrick Carpentier 32 7 19 4 15 5 5 16 10 1* 5 1* 7 15 17 3 16 2 3 4
Canada Alex Tagliani 33 5 16 2 19 10 12 7 7 5 7 7 2 11 12 18 4 6 8 10
2003 Lola B02/00 Ford XFE V8t STP MTY LBH BRH LAU MIL LAG POR CLE TOR VAN ROA MDO MTL DEN MIA MXC SFR
Canada Paul Tracy 3 1* 1* 1 17 12 12 3 2* 2* 1* 1* 15 1* 6 4 16 1* 13
Canada Patrick Carpentier 32 8 8 6 5 7 3 1* 16 4 7 13 5 2 3 17 6 14 5
2004 Lola B02/00 Ford XFE V8t LBH MTY MIL POR CLE TOR VAN ROA DEN MTL LAG LSV SFR MXC
Canada Paul Tracy 1 1* 7 17 3 17 5 1* 12 2* 4 10 18 4* 10
Mexico Rodolfo Lavín 3 10 13 9 18 9 14 15 2 11 11 12 4 15 13
Canada Patrick Carpentier 7 4 4 2 4 16 3 16 14 9 2 1* 3 16 6
2005 Lola B02/00 Ford XFE V8t LBH MTY MIL POR CLE TOR EDM SJO DEN MTL LSV SRF MXC
Canada Paul Tracy 3 2 15 1* 3 1* 16 3 2 16* 8 17* 17 3
Mexico Mario Domínguez 7 5 13 7 4 17 13 5 5 2 10 4 18 12
2006 Lola B02/00 Ford XFE V8t LBH HOU MTY MIL POR CLE TOR EDM SJO DEN MTL ROA SRF MXC
Canada Paul Tracy 3 17 2 4 16 7 16 2 5 15 6 2 10 4
Mexico David Martínez 9
Mexico Mario Domínguez 7 4 3* 6 14
United States A. J. Allmendinger 1* 1* 1* 3 7 1* 17 1 16
United States Buddy Rice 10
2007 Panoz DP01 Cosworth XFE V8t LSV LBH HOU POR CLE MTT TOR EDM SJO ROA ZOL ASN SFR MXC
Canada Paul Tracy 3 3 10 1 15 14 5 11 12 10 17 9 5
Spain Oriol Servià 2 4
7 11 7 9 10* 6 3* 4 6 8
Mexico Mario Domínguez 9 17 6
Mexico David Martínez 10 14

Complete IndyCar Series results

(key)

Year Chassis Engine Drivers No. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19
2008 Panoz DP01 Cosworth XFE V8t HMS STP MOT LBH KAN INDY MIL TXS IOW RIR WGL NSH MDO EDM KTY SNM DET CHI SRF1
Canada Paul Tracy 3 11
France Franck Montagny 7 2
Mexico David Martínez 37 8
1 Non-points-paying, exhibition race.

References

  1. ↑ Malsher, David. Pettit joins Forsythe as RuSPORT close, autosport.com, November 26, 2007
  2. ↑ Racer Staff, Forsythe Championship Racing Ceases Operations, SpeedTV.com/Racer Magazine, February 28, 2008
  3. ↑ Phillips, David. Forsythe plan IRL and ALMS for '09, Autosport.com, July 19, 2008

External links


2008 Champ Car season
NHL Forsythe/Pettit Minardi Australia Rocketsports Coyne PKV PCM Conquest
1 Wilson
2 Rahal		 3 Tracy
7 TBA		 4 TBA
14 Doornbos		 5 Power
15 TBA		 8 Bernoldi 11 TBA
19 TBA		 21 TBA
22 Servià		 28 TBA
29 Figge		 24 Perera
34 TBA
Long Beach - Houston - Laguna Seca - Zolder - Jerez - Cleveland - Mont-Tremblant - Toronto - Edmonton - Portland - Road America - Assen - Surfers Paradise - Mexico City
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