Founded in 1993 as Forsythe/Green Racing, the team won the Indianapolis 500 six times and now runs IndyCar, Formula E and an F1 entry with General Motors.
Andretti Global is an American motorsports organisation founded in 1993 as Forsythe/Green Racing. It has won six Indianapolis 500s and four IndyCar titles, holds seven Indy NXT championships and won the 2022-23 Formula E drivers' title with Jake Dennis.
Andretti Global is an American motorsports organisation whose teams race in IndyCar, Indy NXT, Formula E and several joint entries. It began in 1993 as a small CART team and went on to win six Indianapolis 500s and a series of titles. Its ownership and name have changed several times along the way.
What is Andretti Global?
The organisation fields cars in IndyCar, Indy NXT and Formula E, and it also shares entries in IMSA and Supercars. Its parent company, TWG Motorsports, has run the Cadillac Formula One squad alongside General Motors since 2026.
A 1993 CART start-up from Forsythe Green Racing that became a multi-series force with six Indianapolis 500 wins to its name.
How did the team start?
The outfit began life in 1993 as Forsythe/Green Racing, set up by Gerald Forsythe and Barry Green. Forsythe had competed in CART in the early 1980s under the Forsythe Racing banner with moderate success. The team began racing in CART the following year, in 1994.
Green and his brother Kim took over in 1995 and renamed the team Team Green. It kept its blue and white livery through Player's LTD sponsorship, with Kim Green as team manager.
How did Villeneuve win the 1995 title?
In 1994 the team scored ten top-ten finishes in sixteen races, including a second place at the Indianapolis 500, and Jacques Villeneuve won one race as a rookie at Road America. He finished sixth in the championship with 94 points and was named Rookie of the Year.
In 1995 Villeneuve won the season opener in Miami and then took further wins at the Indianapolis 500, Road America and Cleveland. The title was clinched at Laguna Seca with 172 points, eleven more than defending champion Al Unser Jr. in the Penske. The team had won the 1995 Indianapolis 500 as well.
How did the CART years develop?
In 1996 the team ran as the Brahma Sports Team for a season after Villeneuve left for Formula One, with Raul Boesel as its driver. In 1997 Parker Johnstone took over the seat and KOOL cigarettes became the major sponsor, and the team was renamed Team KOOL Green.
In 1998 the team expanded to two cars with Paul Tracy and Dario Franchitti, who stayed as teammates for five seasons. In 2001 Michael Andretti joined as a satellite team led by Kim Green, known as Team Motorola, and the pair returned to Indy after a five-year absence caused by the open-wheel split.
What happened at the 2002 Indianapolis 500?
Tracy placed second in a highly controversial finish at the 2002 Indianapolis 500. Under the MSA rules, KOOL could not appear on the cars, and the associate sponsor 7-Eleven was on the sidepods instead. The team protested the result, and a lengthy appeals process dragged into the summer before Green lost the appeal.
Michael Andretti's final win as a driver came at Long Beach in 2002. The team also switched from Reynard to Lola chassis that season because of Reynard's financial troubles.
When did the team move to the IndyCar Series?
In 2003 the team switched to the Indy Racing League after major problems in CART surfaced. Andretti, who had bought a majority interest, renamed it Andretti Green Racing. Tony Kanaan joined Dario Franchitti and Andretti, and Dan Wheldon took over when Andretti retired after the 2003 Indianapolis 500.
The team ran four cars from 2004, with Bryan Herta in the extra seat. At the 2005 Grand Prix of St. Petersburg all four drivers finished in the top four. Kanaan and Wheldon took the IndyCar titles in back-to-back seasons, 2004 and 2005, and Wheldon added the 2005 Indianapolis 500.
How did Andretti Green Racing win in 2007?
In 2007 Franchitti won the Indianapolis 500 and the Indy Racing League championship. Danica Patrick joined the team for that season to replace Herta, who moved to the American Le Mans Series effort. Franchitti then left in October 2007 to pursue a NASCAR career with Chip Ganassi Racing, and Hideki Mutoh replaced him in the 27 car.
Wheldon's 2005 title was his only one before he left in 2006 for Target Chip Ganassi Racing. Michael Andretti returned from retirement to qualify for the 2006 Indy 500 alongside Marco, and the pair finished second and third before Marco was passed by Sam Hornish Jr. just before the line.
What were the lean years?
In 2009 the team failed to win a race for the first time since 2003. Patrick finished fifth in points and Kanaan sixth, with three podium finishes for Kanaan. The team repeated its Indy Lights championship that year with J. R. Hildebrand.
On November 24, 2009, the team restructuring was complete and the team was renamed Andretti Autosport, with Michael Andretti as sole owner. Ryan Hunter-Reay joined in 2010 and won at Long Beach, the team's first victory since 2008. Kanaan was released after the 2010 season because sponsorship fell short.
How did Ryan Hunter-Reay win the 2012 title?
Hunter-Reay won the IndyCar championship in 2012. He won three races in a row, at Milwaukee, Iowa and Toronto, and a fourth victory at Baltimore left him the only challenger to Will Power. Power had a 17-point lead, but on lap 66 of the finale at Fontana he spun and went into the outer wall while racing Hunter-Reay side by side.
That season the team ran three drivers, with Dan Wheldon's death in the 2011 season-ending race leaving the car to James Hinchcliffe. Two other drivers, Sebastian Saavedra and Ana Beatriz, were signed for a few races, and a deal with Chevrolet supplied engines to the team as the series opened to more than one manufacturer.
What were the team's key milestones?
| Year | Series | Milestone |
|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Founding | Forsythe/Green Racing formed by Forsythe and Barry Green |
| 1995 | CART | Indianapolis 500 win and CART title with Jacques Villeneuve |
| 2004 | IndyCar | First IndyCar Series title, with Tony Kanaan |
| 2005 | IndyCar | Second straight title, and Indianapolis 500 win with Dan Wheldon |
| 2007 | IndyCar | Indianapolis 500 and title with Dario Franchitti |
| 2012 | IndyCar | Title with Ryan Hunter-Reay |
| 2014 | IndyCar | Indianapolis 500 win with Hunter-Reay and full-works Honda power |
| 2022-23 | Formula E | Drivers' championship with Jake Dennis |
| 2026 | Formula One | Andretti-GM bid enters the championship |
How did Andretti do in the 2014 and 2015 seasons?
In 2014 Andretti, Hunter-Reay and Hinchcliffe were signed as primary drivers, and the team again ran full-works Honda power. Hunter-Reay won the Indianapolis 500 that year, and Kurt Busch, who ran a fifth car in the race, finished sixth.
In 2015 Andretti fielded a three-car full-season effort with Marco Andretti, Ryan Hunter-Reay and Carlos Munoz. Munoz claimed his first and only IndyCar win at Race 1 of the Detroit double-header. Andretti claimed two podiums and finished ninth in the standings, while Hunter-Reay rebounded to sixth after two wins in the final four races.
How strong is the team in 2026?
In 2026 Colton Herta left IndyCar to test for the Cadillac F1 team while racing in Formula 2. Will Power was hired for the No. 26 entry. Rob Edwards moved up to Chief Performance Officer at TWG Motorsports, and Ron Ruzewski, a one-time Penske engineer, took over leading the IndyCar side.
After Milwaukee, Kyle Kirkwood was third in the standings on two wins, at the Indianapolis Grand Prix and Road America, though he trailed Alex Palou by 102 points. Marcus Ericsson took a win at Markham and placed second at Gateway, while Power's five podiums all came on road or street courses.
How did Andretti Formula E become a champion team?
The Formula E arm is one of the series' original teams, racing since 2014-15. It claimed its first drivers' championship in Season 9 (2022-23) with British driver Jake Dennis, who won the title with a record-breaking 11 podiums in 16 races.
The team partnered with BMW from the series' start until the end of Season 7 (2020-21). BMW became a full works team with Andretti from the 2018-19 season, and the BMW i Andretti Motorsport entry fielded Antonio Felix da Costa and Alexander Sims in the Gen2 car. The team finished fifth in the Teams' Championship in that first works season.
Who drove for Andretti in Formula E after BMW?
Jake Dennis joined as a rookie in Season 7 (2020-21), winning at Valencia and London and finishing third overall. He stayed with the team in 2021-22, joined by American driver Oliver Askew, and then partnered Andre Lotterer for the GEN3 era. In Season 10 (2023-24) Norman Nato joined as Dennis's teammate.
For Season 11 (2024-25) Dennis continued for a fifth consecutive season, joined by Swiss driver Nico Muller. For Season 12 (2025-26) Felipe Drugovich replaced Muller, and the team announced it would switch to Nissan for Gen 4.
What did Andretti do in Extreme E and other series?
In April 2020 Extreme E announced that Andretti Autosport had become the sixth team to join the series. It partnered with United Autosport and entered the inaugural season with Catie Munnings and Timmy Hansen. The team won its first race at the Arctic X-Prix and finished fourth in that first season, then fifth in the second and seventh in the third.
In 2018 the team bought a 37.5% shareholding in Walkinshaw Andretti United, entering the Australian Supercars Championship. In 2021 Michael Andretti and former racecar driver Michel Jourdain Jr. formed Andretti Jourdain Autosport, a Mexican team in the Super Copa Touring Car division.
Why did the team pursue a Formula One entry?
At the end of 2021 reports said Andretti Autosport was negotiating to buy Sauber or Haas, but those talks failed. The team rebranded as Andretti Global with an eye on a Formula One team, and Michael Andretti applied to the FIA in 2022 to enter in 2024, with a deal to acquire Renault engines.
In 2023 Michael Andretti announced a partnership with General Motors, with the bid branded under the Cadillac marque. Formula One Group said it preferred a team with a GM power unit. After the Andretti family sold the team to Mark Walter's TWG Global, and GM confirmed it would enter as an engine supplier later, the FIA approved the Andretti-GM bid to enter in 2026.
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