WELCOME TO FORTE RACING
Forte Racing is built on two decades of competition at the highest levels of motorsport. Our roots in open-wheel racing—Formula Dodge, Star Mazda, and Indy Lights—established a culture of disciplined preparation, engineering excellence, and driver development that continues to define our programs today.
As the team expanded into sportscar racing, those same values fueled success across multiple categories. Forte Racing has earned race wins, championships, podiums, poles, fastest race laps, progressed into IMSA GTD, and now operates a competitive program in the McLaren Trophy America series. Our dedication to precision and continual improvement has made Forte Racing a trusted home for both rising talents and established professionals.
Whether competing at Daytona, Road America, VIR, Indianapolis, or world-class circuits abroad, Forte Racing brings the same energy and purpose to every program—developing drivers, building champions, and performing with integrity.
From grassroots beginnings to North America’s premier sportscar paddocks, our history is a testament to resilience, expertise, and results. As we enter the next chapter with McLaren Trophy America, our mission remains unchanged: prepare every driver and every car to perform at the highest possible level.
“As Lamborghini Squadra Corse we are glad to welcome in GTD the team Forte Racing. The crew is well known in our family coming from successful seasons in our Lamborghini Super Trofeo North America. Together with our junior and factory drivers involved with Forte Racing, we are ready for this new exciting challenge."
Our Racing Heritage
Team Principal Shane Seneviratne has a long and accomplished history in professional motorsport, having played a key role in the development of drivers who went on to successful careers across NASCAR, IndyCar, IMSA, and international GT competition. His work helped shape the careers of notable talents such as Casey Mears, Simona De Silvestro, Oriol Servia, Townsend Bell, Jeff Ward, Robbie Buhl, Luis Diaz, Alex Gurney, and Jon Fogarty.
Shane’s early success included three championships as Team Manager at Dorricott Racing, highlighted by Townsend Bell’s 2001 Indy Lights Championship. In 2005, he founded US RaceTronics, building a respected program in the Toyota Atlantic Championship with 26 podiums, 8 poles, 5 race wins, and a 3rd-place championship finish in 2009, including the standout season with Simona De Silvestro. When the Toyota Atlantic Championship concluded, Shane transitioned with De Silvestro into IndyCar, supporting her through 2013.
Following his open-wheel tenure, Shane was recruited by Tom O’Gara to lead O’Gara Motorsport’s Lamborghini Super Trofeo program, where he guided the team to extraordinary results in 2015, capturing the Team Championship, Dealer Championship, North American Pro (Richard Antinucci) and Amateur (Ryan Ockey) Championships along with the Amateur World Championship (Ryan Ockey).
In 2016, Shane relaunched US RaceTronics with an uncompromising philosophy rooted in his open-wheel experience: attention to detail, data-driven preparation, elite engineering standards, and a commitment to driver success. His leadership and vision laid the foundation for what is now Forte Racing, a premier force in North American GT racing. The team has won multiple North American and World Championships since switching to IMSA racing.
In 2023, the team expanded to include an IMSA WeatherTech GTD entry with their Lamborghini Huracan EVO2 GT3, with full-season drivers Misha Goikhberg and Loris Spinelli. The team finished the 2023 and 2024 seasons with four top-five finishes in each season and included a 2nd-place finish at Indianapolis and VIR, along with a win at the 2023 season-finale Petit Le Mans and a 2nd-place finish at Petit Le Mans in 2024. The team finished fifth in the IMSA WeatherTech GTD Championship in its first two seasons, further solidifying their reputation as a rising force in the Sportscar arena.
Over the past two decades, Forte Racing has supported talented drivers who have advanced into top-level competition across North America and internationally. The team’s impressive list of alumni drivers includes Lamborghini factory drivers Sandy Mitchell, Frank Perera, Loris Spinelli, and Marco Mapelli; IndyCar driver Devlin DeFrancesco; NASCAR driver Parker Kligerman; Sportscar drivers Mario Farnbacher, Patrick Kujala, Kevin Madsen, Jon Miller, Patrick Liddy, Eric Filgueiras and many more.
That legacy continues today in McLaren Trophy America and the VP Racing SportsCar Challenge. In 2026, Forte Racing won the McLaren Trophy America team championship, along with the Pro drivers’ championship (Tanner Harvey and Patrick Liddy) and the Am drivers’ championship (Cooper Broll). Neil Langberg finished second in the Pro-Am Papaya Cup drivers’ championship. In the VP Racing SportsCar Challenge, Brian Thienes finished third in the championship.