Andretti Autosport is an auto racing team that competes in the IndyCar Series, Indy Lights, the Pro madza Championship, the Global RallyCross Championship, and the FIA Formula E Championship.
Andretti Autosport has won the Indianapolis 500 in 2005, 2007, and 2014. The team has won the IndyCar Series championship in 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2012, and the Indy Lights championship in 2008 and 2009. During the team's early formative years as Team Green, they won both the Indianapolis 500 and CART Championship in 1995.
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MoreAndretti Autosport is an auto racing team that competes in the IndyCar Series, Indy Lights, the Pro madza Championship, the Global RallyCross Championship, and the FIA Formula E Championship.
Andretti Autosport has won the Indianapolis 500 in 2005, 2007, and 2014. The team has won the IndyCar Series championship in 2004, 2005, 2007, and 2012, and the Indy Lights championship in 2008 and 2009. During the team's early formative years as Team Green, they won both the Indianapolis 500 and CART Championship in 1995.
Founded in 1993 by Barry Green and Gerald Forsythe as Forsythe Green Racing, they fielded two Atlantic cars for Claude Bourbonnais and Jacques Villeneuve. In 1994 Green and Forsythe split up and Green renamed the team Team Green, with his brother Kim Green joining as team manager, and competing in the 1994 CART IndyCar World Series as a single car team for Villeneuve, eventually winning both the Indianapolis 500 and the CART PPG IndyCar World Series Cup in 1995. In 1996, Team Green became known as the Brahma Sports Team for a season, with driver Raul Boesel. In 1997, KOOL cigarettes took over as a major sponsor with Parker Johnstone, and the team was renamed Team KOOL Green, before expanding to a two-car effort in 1998 with Paul Tracy and rising youngster Dario Franchitti. The two stayed on as teammates for five seasons.
In 2001, Michael Andretti joined the team in a separate effort headed by Kim Green, known as Team Motorola specifically to compete at the Indianapolis 500 after both of their 5-year absences since 1995. Andretti won his last race as a driver at the 2002 Grand Prix of Long Beach. In 2002, the team switched from Reynard to Lola chassis, producing a striking new livery to coincide with the change.
After major problems in CART surfaced, Andretti, who had purchased majority interest in the team, switched the newly renamed Andretti Green Racing in 2003 to the rival IndyCar Series. Tracy left the team to stay in the Champ Car World Series, with Tony Kanaan joining Franchitti and Andretti. Andretti retired after the 2003 Indianapolis 500, and Dan Wheldon took his place.
On November 24, 2009, Andretti Green Racing announced that the team restructuring was complete, and the team would be renamed Andretti Autosport with Michael Andretti as the sole owner.
Subject ID: 23978
Subject ID: 23978
