Forster Motorsport

Arthur Forster

Forster Motorsport 

  • Name: Arthur Forster

    Driver

  • From: Newcastle Upon Tyne

    Date of Birth: 1967

  • Current: British Touring Car Championship

    Team Forster Motorsport

  • Previous: Mini Challenge & Fiesta

    Team Forster Motorsport

  • Car:BMW 320si

    Car Number: 37

    Sponsored by: Call Stream, Repaircare, Buyspares, ABRS recruitment

    Personal Sponsors: TBC

TBC

  • 2008: 3rd place in S class Mini challenge – 3 x wins, 1 x 2nd places and 3 x 3rd Places.

    2007: Team manager Forster Motorsport

    2006: 2nd in S class Mini challenge : 7x wins 2 x 2nd places and 1 x 3rd place – 10 podiums form 16 starts

    2005: 1st Mini Challenge Champion

Bio

  • Started Karting in the 80s , learned race craft with racing with other junior karters like Alan McNish and Jason Plato, I won driver of the year award in 1984, gave up racing at the age of 16 to start my own business, Returned to motorsport in 1994 in Toca Ford Fiesta Challenge won nearly all the best improver awards for the driver who made up the most places on the grid, 1995-2001 back to business,

  • 2002 John Cooper Challenge, won races in first year

  • 2003 John Cooper Challenge, Scottish Mini Challenge (helped to start the Scottish series)

  • 2004 J C C , moved to new Cooper S from coopers, won first ever race in BMW mini Cooper S at Donnington, ended championship on level points with Martin Wallbank, lost out to Martin on countback,

  • 2005 J C C , won overall title, Britcar ..raced a Mini to an outright win in the rain at Snetterton (the first open class win for the mew mini worldwide according to autosport). Built a BMW Mini for the Fastest Mini in the world Race at Brands, and won the title, Raced a works mini in the britcar 24hrs at Silverstone was leading class until mechanical failure, represented the uk in mini united in missano Italy, 2 races with 2 DNFs -car failure

  • 2006 returned as Mini Challenge Defending Champion, came 2nd in championship, disqualified 3 times for excessive contact.

  • 2007 concentrated on running Forster Motorsport,

  • 2008 returned to racing, won races had 2 major crashes wrote off 2 cars and fractured bones

  • 2009 race mini just for a bit of fun,got the bug back mid season wanting to win again.

  • From being a kid I always wanted to be a saloon car racer..used to love watching the DTM in the days they had the E30 BMWs racing…that was my dream at the time, as time went on I still wanted to be a BMW racer..the days when Winckelhock and Soper were so dominant in BTCC that was when I knew what my true goal was to race in the BTCC in a BMW

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