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|Base = Alessandria, Italy |Founders = Guido Forti Paolo Guerci |Staff = Giacomo Caliri Daniele Coronna Riccardo de Marco Cesare Fiorio Hans Fouche Carlo Gancia Chris Radage Sergio Rinland George Ryton Giorgio Stirano |Drivers = Luca Badoer Pedro Diniz Andrea Montermini Roberto Moreno |Debut = |Races = 27 (44 starts from 54 entries) |Cons_champ = 0 |Drivers_champ = 0 |Wins = 0 (Best: 7th, 1995 Australian Grand Prix) |Poles = 0 (Best: 19th, 1996 Brazilian Grand Prix) |Podiums = 0 |Points = 0 |Fastest_laps = 0 (Best: 10th, 1996 Monaco Grand Prix) |Last race = 1996 British Grand Prix }} Forti Corse, commonly known as Forti, was an Italian motor racing team chiefly known for its brief, and unsuccessful, involvement in Formula One in the mid-1990s. It was established in the late 1970s and competed in lower formulae for two decades. The team's successes during this period included four Drivers' Championships in Italian Formula Three during the 1980s, and race wins in the International Formula 3000 championship, in which it competed from 1987 to 1994. From 1992, team co-founder Guido Forti developed a relationship with the wealthy Brazilian businessman Abílio dos Santos Diniz that gave Diniz's racing driver son, Pedro, a permanent seat in the team and the outfit a sufficiently high budget to consider entering Formula One. Forti graduated to Formula One as a constructor and entrant in , but its first car—the Forti FG01—proved to be uncompetitive, and the team failed to score a point. Despite this setback, Forti was committed to a three-year deal with Diniz, which was broken when Pedro moved to the Ligier team prior to the 1996 season, taking most of the team's sponsorship money with him. Nevertheless, Forti continued to compete in the sport, and produced the much-improved FG03 chassis, before succumbing to financial problems mid-season after an ultimately fruitless deal with a mysterious entity known as Shannon Racing. The team competed in a total of 27 Grands Prix, scoring no points, and is recognised as one of the last truly privateer teams to race in an era when many large car manufacturers were increasing their involvement in the sport. ==Establishment and early years== Forti was founded by Italian businessmen Guido Forti, a former driver, and Paolo Guerci, an engineer, in the late 1970s and was based in Alessandria in northern Italy.〔 It was registered as a ''Società a Responsabilità Limitata'', or Limited liability company.〔 It was initially run in lower motor racing categories such as Formula Ford and Formula Three, both at Italian and European levels. The team was well equipped and soon became a regular winner. Forti drivers Franco Forini, Enrico Bertaggia, Emanuele Naspetti and Gianni Morbidelli (who would all go on to drive in Formula One) won Italian Formula Three titles in 1985, 1987, 1988 and 1989 respectively. In addition, Bertaggia won the prestigious Macau F3 Grand Prix and the Monaco Grand Prix F3 support race in 1988,〔 and Morbidelli won the FIA European Formula Three Cup in 1989.〔Higham, p. 248.〕 Teo Fabi and Oscar Larrauri also raced for the team in its early years, the former winning the Italian FFord 2000 championship in 1977, and the latter racing as far afield as South America, in the Argentine Formula Three Championship.〔 Forti continued racing in Formula Three until the end of 1992, when it quit the formula in order to concentrate solely on International Formula 3000. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Forti」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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