João Barbosa

This article is about the racing car driver João Barbosa. For other people, see João Barbosa (disambiguation) .

Barbosa 2011 at Le Mans

João Barbosa (born March 11, 1975 in Porto ) is a Portuguese automobile racing driver .

Career

Barbosa began his career like so many racing drivers in karting . Almost thirteen years old, he won his first Portuguese championship. 1994 Barbosa was champion in the Formula 3 championship of his home country and a year later another title followed; this time he remained successful in the Italian Alfa Boxter Championship as the overall winner.

Barbosa is primarily known as a sports car driver. In 2004 he made his debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans and competed every year until 2009. His best overall ranking so far was fourth in 2007. Barbosa competed for Rollcentre Racing; together with Martin Short and Stuart Hall he drove a Pescarolo 01-Judd. In addition to his activities in Le Mans, Barbosa is also active in American sports car racing. For Action Express Racing he drove in the Rolex Sports Car Series from 2010 to 2013 , and has been in the United SportsCar Championship since 2014 . In 2010 (with Mike Rockenfeller , Ryan Dalziel and Terry Borcheller ) and 2014 (with Christian Fittipaldi and Sebastien Bourdais ) he won the season highlight, the Daytona 24-hour race . In 2014 he was also able to win the title in the prototype class of the United SportsCar Championship and the special classification for endurance races, the North American Endurance Cup.

statistics

successes

• 1994: Winner of the Portuguese Formula Ford Championship
• 1995: Winner Formula Alfa Boxer Championship
• 1995: Winner Formula Europe Boxer Championship
• 2010: Winner of the Daytona 24-hour race
• 2013: Winner 6 Hours of Watkins Glen
• 2014: Winner of the Daytona 24-hour race
• 2014: Winner prototype class of the United SportsCar Championship
• 2014: Winner Prototype Class of the North American Endurance Cup

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2004	Rollcentre Racing	Dallara SP1	Martin Short	Rob Barff	failure	malfunction
2005	Rollcentre Racing	Dallara SP1	Martin Short	Vanina Ickx	Rank 16
2006	Rollcentre Racing	Radical SR9	Martin Short	Stuart Moseley	Rank 20
2007	Rollcentre Racing	Pescarolo 01	Martin Short	Stuart Hall	Rank 4
2008	Rollcentre Racing	Pescarolo 01	Stéphan Grégoire	Vanina Ickx	Rank 11
2009	Pescarolo sport	Pescarolo 01	Christophe Tinseau	Bruce Jouanny	Rank 8
2011	Level 5 motorsports	Lola B08 / 60	Christophe Bouchut	Scott Tucker	Rank 10
2015	Krohn Racing	Ligier JS P2	Niclas Jönsson	Tracy Krohn	Rank 32
2016	Krohn Racing	Ligier JS P2	Niclas Jönsson	Tracy Krohn	Rank 22

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
2000	MCR Nygmatech	Porsche 911 Carrera RSR	Ian James	Tim Robertson	Rank 18
2004	Rollcentre Racing	Dallara LMP	Rob Barff	Martin Short	Rank 5
2005	Rollcentre Racing	Dallara LMP	Didier Theys	Michael Krumm	failure	Gearbox damage
2010	Extreme speed motorsports	Ferrari F430 GTC	Guy Cosmo	Ed Brown	Rank 13
2011	Level 5 motorsports	Lola B11 / 80	Christophe Bouchut	Scott Tucker	Rank 33
2012	Level 5 motorsports	HPD ARX-03b	Christophe Bouchut	Scott Tucker	Rank 4
2014	Action Express Racing	Chevrolet Corvette DP	Christian Fittipaldi	Sébastien Bourdais	Rank 3
2015	Action Express Racing	Chevrolet Corvette DP	Christian Fittipaldi	Sébastien Bourdais	Overall victory
2016	Action Express Racing	Chevrolet Corvette DP	Christian Fittipaldi	Filipe Albuquerque	Rank 3
2017	Mustang Sampling Racing	Cadillac DPi-VR	Christian Fittipaldi	Filipe Albuquerque	Rank 2
2018	Mustang Sampling Racing	Cadillac DPi-VR	Christian Fittipaldi	Filipe Albuquerque	Rank 16
2019	Mustang Sampling Racing	Cadillac DPi-VR	Brendon Hartley	Filipe Albuquerque	Rank 3

Individual results in the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
2012	Level 5 motorsports	HPD ARX-03b	SEB	SPA	LEM	SIL	SAO	BAH	FUJ	SHA
			4th
2015	Krohn Racing	Ligier JS P2	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
					32
2016	Krohn Racing	Ligier JS P2	SIL	SPA	LEM	ONLY	MEX	OUT	FUJ	SHA	BAH
					22nd

Web links

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