Forsythe's involvement in racing began in 1981 when he sponsored Scott Brayton's entry. He subsequently established his own team and raced part-time in CART from 1982, fielding cars for Héctor Rebaque and Danny Sullivan at that year's Indianapolis 500, where they finished 13th and 14th respectively. Rebaque won for the team at Road America later that season; Sullivan finished third at Atlanta Motor Speedway. Al Unser Jr. also made his CART debut with the team at Riverside International Raceway in 1982, finishing fifth.
The team's most notable early result came in 1983 when rookie Teo Fabi won four races and started from pole position at Indianapolis. Moderate success continued through 1985.
Forsythe returned to racing in 1994 as Forsythe-Green Racing with co-owner Barry Green. The partnership dissolved the following year when Green departed with driver Jacques Villeneuve and sponsor Player's LTD to form Team Green, which went on to win the 1995 Indianapolis 500 and CART championship. Forsythe reunited with Teo Fabi for a full-time 1995 effort under Combustion Engineering sponsorship.
Forsythe retained Player's for his Indy Lights programme, where Canadian Greg Moore won the 1995 Indy Lights championship by taking ten of twelve races. When Moore tested for Team Penske late that year, Forsythe moved quickly to sign him for the 1996 Champ Car entry, with Player's returning from Team Green as Villeneuve departed for Formula One. Moore drove for Forsythe across five seasons in total — one in Indy Lights and four in Champ Car — until his death at the end of the 1999 season. In Champ Car he recorded five wins and a best championship position of fifth in 1998.
In 1998 Forsythe expanded to two cars, adding Patrick Carpentier alongside Moore to create an all-Canadian lineup. Carpentier drove for the team through 2004, winning five times, before being hired by Cheever Racing in the rival Indy Racing League for 2005. Rookie Alex Tagliani joined for 2000, scoring three poles and five podiums across three seasons but no victories, and was replaced by veteran Paul Tracy for 2003.
Tracy delivered the team's defining season that year, winning seven races to bring Forsythe the CART championship in CART's final year of operations. Tracy finished fourth in points in both 2004 and 2005 following his title-winning campaign.
Mario Domínguez, who had taken Carpentier's seat for 2005, was dismissed mid-season in 2006. Forsythe recruited A. J. Allmendinger as a replacement; Allmendinger immediately won his first three Champ Car races, his maiden victories in the series. The two sides could not agree on terms for 2007 and Allmendinger moved to NASCAR with Team Red Bull. Domínguez briefly returned before being replaced on a race-by-race basis by Oriol Servià, who was eventually appointed on a full-time basis.
For 2008, Forsythe and former RuSPORT owner Dan Pettit planned to merge into Forsythe/Pettit Racing and field at least two cars. The unification of open-wheel racing into the IndyCar Series made this commercially unviable in Forsythe's assessment, and he chose not to participate. The team's Atlantic Series operation continued through 2008 and fielded three Panoz DP01 chassis at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
In July 2008 Forsythe announced a planned return to the Firestone Indy Lights Series in 2009 and reported interest in both the IndyCar Series and American Le Mans Series. No entries were ever fielded in any of those programmes.
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