Level 5 Motorsports and Scott Tucker Determine that Strategy is integral for team's success

By Jim Tobin


Once private equity investor-turned motorsports escalating super star Scott Tucker put his order for that completely new Honda Performance Development/Wirth Research cost-capped prototype car, under "quantity," it stated 2. Tucker reserved the primary 2 chassis for his Level 5 Motorsports team to use as soon as they possibly can, which turned out to be last weekend in the HPD ARX-01g's debut appearance, at ModSpace American Le Mans in Monterey, Calif. The race was yet one more win for the David Stone-managed, Microsoft Office-sponsored team of Tucker, Christophe Bouchut and Luis Diaz; the team has made a crucial pass throughout the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup series and the American Le Mans Series, making podium at many races and winning at several others, like Imola.

Naturally, not simply good luck brought a pair of expert people along with a beginner and made them win races. Every one of the drivers centers on another area and comes from a different background, nonetheless they all share a powerful desire for racing sports cars and a level of expertise and experience that lends itself to precise, managed, well balanced driving at max speed. They key to the team's joint achievements is selecting the right scenario for driver order and race strategy-part of which involves Tucker reserving a pair of the Honda chassis prototypes.

Tucker and Bouchut, who had been his driving coach at the moment, made a decision to join the Le Mans Prototype class after checking out the car last year. The kind of the automobile was appealing enough, but since the series could possibly have Class A and Class B people race together with each other at the championship, Tucker wanted in. Bouchut, essentially the most successful endurance drivers on this planet and an industry veteran, seemed to be assisting Tucker improve since his Grand-Am first appearance, and the two went into the LMPC program mutually full-time in 2010.

Yet another interesting aspect of the revolutionary prototype class was that a brand new IMSA rule granted gentleman motorists in LMPC or GTC class to drive 2 vehicles, with the scoring driver in the higher-placed entry. That allowance spawned Level 5 Motorsports' winning Nos. 55 and 95 cars, which carried the group in the next year to win the LMP championship, which bumped Level 5 into the LMP2 class, for which the HPD ARX-01g cars will take over starting last weekend.

The strategies involved with 2 vehicles worked for Level 5 Motorsports, with an exceedingly expert veteran in Christophe Bouchut and the other coming at the beginning of This year in Luis Diaz. Tucker, who had previously been a beginner at age Forty four in 2006, got training through the two-car approach Level 5 uses, saving himself effort and time and boosting the team's system all the while.

Tucker had mainly kept out of the spotlight, however he rapidly built a wonderful record after his racing debut. But Le Mans had always been undoubtedly one of his ambitions, and so once the time was appropriate enough, he incorporated high-profile racing experienced to his inner circle and set about leaving the Level 5 mark on almost every ALMS and ILMC track he could.

In 2010, Bouchut entered his 17th Le Mans race; just 14 different individuals have ever completed the race more times. But Tucker had never appeared in Le Mans; tactic again played part in becoming successful in the race. Although Bouchut could very easily compete with the series' top rated individuals, the entire Level 5 team had to hold their own in order to be successful. Bouchut was slated as the lead driver, with Tucker and Manu Rodriguez rounding out the group. The team's collective goal was to qualify at a solid pace and be competitive, a attitude that has continued through the 2011 year. With seemingly a continuing list in their minds-get the ideal car, qualify strong, stay competitive, always try to get the win-the Level 5 team arranges race day around it.




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