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, Tagliani scored three poles and five podiums but no wins, so Alex was replaced by veteran
Paul 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 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. However, changes brought about the unification of open wheel racing into the
IndyCar 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's
Panoz DP01 chassis in the
2008 Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. 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. However, Forsythe never fielded any entries in either series. ==Statistics==