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.
Fittipaldi, a race-winner in CART Indycar whose diverse career took him to Formula 1 and later to NASCAR, was the qualifier who took the cut-and-thrust race starts. Barbosa, a late bloomer whose sportscar reputation was growing by the year, was the man entrusted with the decisive final stints when results were on the line.
