FORSYTHE CHAMPIONSHIP RACING

Headquarters:  Indianapolis, IN

Owner:  Gerald Forsythe

Team Manager:  Phil LePan

General Manager:  Neil Mickelwright

DRIVERS:

James Hinchcliffe #3 Indeck Cosworth / DP01	Oriol Servia #7 Indeck Cosworth / DP01

TEAM HIGHLIGHTS
Captured team's first Champ Car title with Paul Tracy in 2003
Team has won races in each of the last five seasons and in eight of the last nine years
Became first team in 10 seasons to run full-time three-car team in 2004
Former driver Jacques Villeneuve was the 1994 Champ Car Rookie of the Year
Runner-up in the 1983 Champ Car series with rookie driver Teo Fabi

TEAM BIO
Forsythe Championship Racing had the second five-win season of its storied history last year, with each victory coming after a controversial mid-season driver change that saw A.J. Allmendinger take over for Mario Dominguez, who had won a pole for the team in Houston. The talented Allmendinger reeled off his first five Champ Car wins after joining the FCR team, including victories in each of his first three starts. Canadian superstar Paul Tracy enjoyed another year at the sharp end of the grid, scoring three second-place finishes on his way to a seventh-place finish in the points. Allmendinger and Tracy each missed the final race of the year, giving way to debutants David Martinez and 2004 Indianapolis 500 winner Buddy Rice.

The team joined Newman/Haas as the only teams to win multiple races and multiple poles during the 2005 season. Canadian star Paul Tracy was again at the forefront of the team, leading the charge with a pair of wins and a fourth-place finish in the championship. The team also competed with Mexican veteran Mario Dominguez, who scored a top-five run in his first outing with the team. The team broke new ground in 2004, expanding to a three-car team for defending series champion Paul Tracy as well as Patrick Carpentier and Rodolfo Lavin. The first team since 1995 to run a full-time three-car effort in Champ Car, put together a successful season that saw each of its drivers earn podium finishes.

The team had its best-ever season in 2003 when the newly-acquired Paul Tracy earned the Vanderbilt Cup as series champion on the strength of seven wins and six poles. It was the first championship for the Indianapolis-based squad, who put both Tracy and Carpentier in the top four in the season standings in 2004.

Forsythe Racing first operated in 1983 when rookie driver Teo Fabi won four races and six poles, including the pole for the Indianapolis 500, and placed second in the Champ Car standings. In 1985, team owner Gerald Forsythe sold the team to focus on his rapidly growing business.

In 1993, the team returned as Forsythe/Green Racing in the Toyota Atlantic Championship with sponsorship from Player's Ltd. and Canadians Claude Bourbonnais and Jacques Villeneuve, and the pair finished second and third, respectively, in the championship that season. The following year, the team moved up to Champ Cars, fielding a one-car effort for Villeneuve. The French Canadian scored his first Champ Car win at Road America and won the Jim Trueman Rookie of the Year Award, in addition to taking second place and Rookie of the Year honors at the Indianapolis 500.

In 1995, Forsythe claimed full ownership of the team and fielded a car for Fabi once again. The Italian took the pole position at Milwaukee and finished in the top five on four occasions. The team welcomed Player's Ltd. back as sponsor in 1996 and rookie driver Greg Moore, coming off a dominating season in Indy Lights in which he won ten of 12 races and the series championship, scored five top-five finishes, including a season best of second at Nazareth.

Moore scored his first career Champ Car win in 1997 at Milwaukee, at the time becoming the youngest driver in Champ Car history to win a race, and followed up the victory in Milwaukee with a win in the next event at Detroit. Moore finished seventh in the ?97 championship.

In 1998, the team expanded to a two-car program with Moore and Patrick Carpentier, and Moore won two races and finished fifth in the championship, while Carpentier scored two pole positions. Moore and Carpentier again teamed in 1999, a season which ended in tragedy when Moore lost his life during the final race of the season. Moore finished tenth in the championship and earned a victory, while Carpentier matched his then career-best finish with a second place run at Vancouver.

Carpentier teamed with rookie Alex Tagliani in 2000, and again took a runner-up result in St. Louis, while Tagliani took his first career pole position in Rio. Carpentier and Tagliani were together again in 2001, and Carpentier scored his first career victory in a thriller at Michigan International Speedway, while Tagliani took a career-best second place finish in Toronto, started from the pole position in Vancouver, finished third in each of the final two races, and took the pole for the season finale at California Speedway in 2001. Carpentier and Tagliani again paired for the 2002 season with Carpentier having his finest season with wins at Cleveland and Mid-Ohio powering a third-place season finish. Tagliani finished eighth in the championship and earned a pair of second-place finishes.