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CART: McDonald's Racing Team Making Changes

9 December 1999

Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel

Forsythe Racing's McDonald's Championship Racing Team made two major announcements regarding the 2000 season. The team has formed a joint venture with Swift Engineering and the Arciero family to race a Swift factory team in the coming year.

The McDonald's team will continue to be powered by Honda, with CART's 1998 Rookie of the Year Tony Kanaan piloting the Swift 011.c chassis.

"If you look at the results, Swift has proven its competitiveness on the track," said team owner Jerry Forsythe. "To have full factory support from Swift combined with our continued relationship with Honda, which has claimed four consecutive driver's championships, has very strong potential. I am very excited about new relationship and our prospects for the future."

Also, Steve Dickson, the team's Indy Lights manager, was promoted to the position of Team Manager with McDonald's Championship Racing Team. Dickson, a veteran of more than 20 years in motorsports whose uncle Larry Dickson competed in Champ Cars in the early 1980s, led the team to consecutive Indy Lights Championships in 1997 with Kanaan and in 1998 with Cristiano da Matta.

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