As the Champ Car Atlantic series continues to grow, Forsythe Racing became one of the first teams to confirms its line-up for 2007, having signed rising North American stars Robert Wickens and John Edwards to drive a brace of Red Bull-backed Swifts.
The two youngsters joined senior team members to discuss the deal with members of the media.
MC:
I'm pleased to welcome to the call today the two new drivers for the Forsythe Championship Racing Atlantic team who will be going after the Atlantic title in 2007, 17-year old Robert Wickens Canada, and 15-year old John Edwards from Arkansas. Robert and John are both products of the Red Bull Junior Team driver development
programme and the Forsythe team welcomes Red Bull as the primary sponsor for both cars this season.
We're also joined today by John Brunner, team manager for the Forsythe Atlantic team. He's here to talk about the team's outlook for 2007. We'd also like to welcome Peter Davies, senior vice president of business development for Forsythe Racing, who can talk about how the relationship with the Red Bull programme came together to work with Robert and John for the upcoming season.
We'll start out first with Peter Davies. Everybody in the Champ Car family is certainly happy to welcome aboard Red Bull for next season. You worked closely with them to pull this deal together. We'd like for you to give us an overview of how the relationship developed and how Robert and John came to join Atlantics and the Forsythe team.
Peter Davies:
First of all, on behalf of Forsythe Racing, we'll very proud to partner with
Red Bull. They are an extraordinary company. They've become deeply entrenched in some of the world's most exciting sports. We're very excited that they've chosen the Champ Car World Series and the Atlantic programme in which to become involved in the premiere form of open-wheel racing.
