Their partnership yielded two IMSA SportsCar Championship titles, two Daytona 24 Hours victories and an unbroken run of Endurance Cup wins between 2014 and 2017. Little wonder then, that fittitweet selects barbosaracing as his favourite team-mate 📝
Christian Fittipaldi and Joao Barbosa held clearly-defined roles during their enormously successful period as team-mates at Action Express Racing between 2011 and 2019.
“I like Antonio very much, he’s a down-to-earth guy, very easy to work with,” says Fittipaldi, who revealed his endurance racing credentials early by winning the 1993 Spa 24 Hours in a Porsche during his second season of F1 with Minardi. “My favourite team-mate was Joao, but I have strong highlights with Antonio.
"Everything was more geared towards me as far as qualifying and then everything maybe was geared a little bit more towards him as far as race set-up. That was part of our success, we understood each other very well"Fittipaldi’s partnership with Barbosa came as part of an unexpected career renaissance following his disappointing departure from Andretti-Green’s American Le Mans Series effort in 2008 and a largely fruitless 2010 Brazilian Stock Cars campaign.
Fittipaldi stresses that this was unrelated to their shared native tongue, which “didn’t change anything”.
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