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The Marshall Pruett Podcast

MP 1029: Catching Up With Joao Barbosa

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

Marshall Pruett

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.6594 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Joao Barbosa endured a rough 2020 season on personal and professional fronts as he stepped down from IMSA's top DPi class to care for his wife who was dealing with significant health concerns. He's back, as the leader of Sean Creech Motorsports' new LMP3 effort, and visited The Marshall Pruett Podcast to discuss the trials he experienced, fortitude that was required, and the happier times ahead. Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast

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0:00.0

I've never attempted to hide the fact that I hold IMSA champion, Jowal Barbosa, in incredibly high regard,

0:10.1

not just for his talent as a motor racing driver, as a supreme professional race car driver,

0:18.8

but also as a person, just known for someone with a very big heart,

0:23.5

a lot of care inside of our friend from Portugal, had a pretty rough go of it the last year.

0:30.5

There's some things on the home front that were kept, for the most part, fairly silent.

0:36.6

And throughout the 2020 season, we saw that his performance started

0:40.6

to wane a little bit at the jdc miller motorsports team where he shared that number five

0:46.4

Mustang sampling Cadillac with our pal Sebastian Bourday somewhere around mid-season

0:51.8

the mutual parting of the ways between both sides and Jowal,

0:55.9

as we're so happy to report,

0:58.0

and as some of you hopefully know,

1:00.4

he's now doing a full season

1:01.8

with Sean Creech Motorsports in IMSA

1:04.3

in their LMP3 category.

1:07.0

So that's where we open up

1:08.1

our short form interview show here,

1:10.2

catching up with.

1:11.8

Have our man, Jouau, all brought to you by Cooper Tires,

1:15.3

The Justice Brothers, and Toronto Motorsports.com.

1:18.8

And while Jouiswau does not want to put a lot of specifics on it,

1:23.0

I can just tell you that he and I have something in common.

1:26.0

We never wanted to.

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