MP 1664: The Week In Sports Cars--AMA with IMSA President John Doonan

The Marshall Pruett Podcast

Marshall Pruett

Leisure, Sports, Automotive

4.6 • 594 Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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It's The Week In Sports Cars show featuring DailySportsCar.com's Graham Goodwin and Stephen Kilbey who visit IMSA president John Doonan at his Daytona office for a first-time Ask Me Anything episode driven by your questions. Every episode is graciously supported by the Justice Brothers, the Sports Car Championship Canada, and TorontoMotorsports.com. NEW show stickers and memorabilia: ThePruettStore.com If you'd like to join the PrueDay podcast listener group, send an email to pruedayrocks@gmail.com and you'll be invited to participate in the Discord chat that takes place every day and meet up with your new family at events. Play on Podbean.com: https://marshallpruett.podbean.com/ Subscribe: https://marshallpruettpodcast.com/subscribe Join our Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/MarshallPruettPodcast [WSC]

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0:00.0	Well, ladies and gentlemen, you're joining me for a very special edition of the Week
0:06.2	in Sports Cars podcast, live at Daytona, one that wouldn't have been possible without the support
0:11.3	of the Justice Brothers and Toronto Motorsport.com. I have with me the Imsa President himself,
0:17.0	John Doonan. John, it's sunny out there, lovely weather finally, a little bit warmer.
0:23.8	It's race week and at the time recording. We're about to hit the track. How are you feeling?
0:29.4	Well, happy new year, first of all. Thank you for having me. It's been a bit since I've been on the show.
0:37.2	And I was actually doing some research for an
0:41.1	interview and I came across an interview from Graham the Monday after the Salon six hour
0:48.8	at the Glen in 2019 and I was driving from Watkins Glen to Rochester to the airport. And it brought back a lot of
0:59.0	memories. But we are so fired up about the week. Of course, we had the roar before the 24, which
1:07.4	was absolutely outstanding. The fans were, you guys have been coming to this for a long time.
1:12.6	I think that was my 29th roar.
1:15.6	I've never seen it like that before.
1:18.6	So I'm really, really proud of where we are heading into the 64th running of the Rolex 24.
1:26.6	To your point, it's going to warm up a little bit.
1:31.8	Yeah, no, it's going to be awesome. I can't wait. I can't wait. There's some themes we've got here
1:37.2	from the questions, and we've had a lot. So across Twitter, that's why I brought a notepad.
1:41.3	I want to make sure I write down all the questions. So we put it on Twitter, Reddit, Instagram, Discord, Facebook. We had over 100 questions in about half an hour. We got to a point where we got the 200 mark where we thought, let's just take stock now last night and collate these. So we've condensed it down a little bit. So we've got the calendar. We've got questions on
2:01.4	rule set. We've got questions on broadcast and fan experience. And we've got sort of a mixed bag
2:06.4	section. So we'll start off at the top with calendar. And you'll be really impressed. I mean,
2:13.3	you love the fans. You're a man of the people, John. But these are very, very good questions.
2:18.0	You're going to love some of these.
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