The field of motorsports is ruthless competition-flying all-around a track with tons of additional motor vehicles and one mistake can send an automobile into the pit, or worse, straight into a devastating, competition-ending and fiery fail. Nonetheless within the track it's every driver for themselves, extraordinary things can occur when talents collide not in a race situation, but in collaborative relationships that provide the foundation for racing teams to take off.
One collaboration is the pair of Scott Tucker and Christophe Bouchut. Their partnership first was that of trainer and student, as Bouchut was perhaps the most outstanding endurance racers across the globe as soon as Tucker, when he was Forty-four, took the competition wheel the first time in 2006. In the past, Tucker was chairman and CEO of Westfund, a private equity firm, but had always harbored a desire for auto racing. Once the chance arose for him to drive competitively, Tucker was an unlikely success story, but he performed in a fashion that are only able to provoke the label "he's a natural." He began within the Ferrari Challenge before testing the area with Porsche Super Cup, IMSA Lites and Rolex Series GT competitions. Sooner or later, he put together Level 5 Motorsports and in 2008 moved into Grand-Am prototype contests, where Bouchut joined forces with him.
The mixture of Bouchut and Tucker, with the addition of Luis Diaz this season, has supplied extraordinary results in the ALMS and ILMC up to now. Lots of podium finishes and many victories are evidence that not only is Tucker adding strong, constant skill to his team, but he himself is also advancing. But as competition warms up for the end of the 2011 season with just ILMC and ALMS championships left go, it's not wacky to speculate if competitors could warm up within the Level 5 team as Tucker's skill level continues to improvement.
Just before he joined Tucker, Bouchut won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1993 and has also won the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Aside from that, he's won a few Porsche Carrera Cup France championships, three FIA GT titles and a FFSA GT championship. He is the sole triple FIA GT champion throughout history. His long-term career made him the optimal mentor for Tucker, who needed to stuff tens of years of experience into as few years as possible to get him up to speed, so to say, with other drivers in his class.
The two made 4 starts with Level 5 Motorsports in the 2008 Rolex series, such as Rolex 24 at Daytona. Before long, Level 5 became a regular attendee of Rolex races, driving a Daytona model. Tucker maintained his Ferrari Challenge entries and won 10 races in 2009. Of which year, he also won the SCCA Touring 1 Class National Championship, his very first national title.
After, Level 5 Motorsports attained momentum, taking third place in the Rolex 24 in 2010 with Tucker, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Lucas Luhr and Richard Westrbrook driving. Finally, they made the turn to the American Le Mans Series, something Tucker had always aspired to participate in. In the new Le Mans Prototype Challenge class, gentleman drivers were allowed to drive 2 cars in the exact same race, with the scoring driver in the highest place vehicle. Tucker and Bouchut saw a chance for success in the brand new class.
Tucker was skilled, but Bouchut had the speed and control that only one with his experience could bring to the track. Sticking with the same mission of winning as many races as they could get into, Bouchut and Tucker fell right into a flawless set up for Level 5, with Bouchut acting as head driver and Tucker holding his own while he also finished practice rounds. Level 5 won five class competitions and took the class title in the LMP Challenge category and was bumped up to LMP2.
In the beginning of 2011, Level 5 was joined by Luis Diaz, who had an abundance of LMP2 experience and made an amazing component to the Tucker-Bouchut formula. The team has had a truly successful year so far, with the Petit Le Mans and Intercontinental Le Mans Cup in China being essentially the only things left on the calendar of a season that included a good number of podium finishes and wins at Imola and other major ALMS races.
But as Level 5 Motorsports moves along, so does Scott Tucker, and before long, the dynamic couple of Tucker-Bouchut could separate. Tucker told Speed TV in 2010 that he and Bouchut would consult each other on which races they would get into together. He said they prefer championships that don't pit 2 qualified drivers against the other; they get too competitive in that setting, he said. Even though any parting would undoubtedly be with good standing on both sides, the continuing success of Tucker begs the question of where he'll go next, who he'll take with him, and how the Level 5 Motorsports team will develop from its burgeoning success.
One collaboration is the pair of Scott Tucker and Christophe Bouchut. Their partnership first was that of trainer and student, as Bouchut was perhaps the most outstanding endurance racers across the globe as soon as Tucker, when he was Forty-four, took the competition wheel the first time in 2006. In the past, Tucker was chairman and CEO of Westfund, a private equity firm, but had always harbored a desire for auto racing. Once the chance arose for him to drive competitively, Tucker was an unlikely success story, but he performed in a fashion that are only able to provoke the label "he's a natural." He began within the Ferrari Challenge before testing the area with Porsche Super Cup, IMSA Lites and Rolex Series GT competitions. Sooner or later, he put together Level 5 Motorsports and in 2008 moved into Grand-Am prototype contests, where Bouchut joined forces with him.
The mixture of Bouchut and Tucker, with the addition of Luis Diaz this season, has supplied extraordinary results in the ALMS and ILMC up to now. Lots of podium finishes and many victories are evidence that not only is Tucker adding strong, constant skill to his team, but he himself is also advancing. But as competition warms up for the end of the 2011 season with just ILMC and ALMS championships left go, it's not wacky to speculate if competitors could warm up within the Level 5 team as Tucker's skill level continues to improvement.
Just before he joined Tucker, Bouchut won the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1993 and has also won the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Aside from that, he's won a few Porsche Carrera Cup France championships, three FIA GT titles and a FFSA GT championship. He is the sole triple FIA GT champion throughout history. His long-term career made him the optimal mentor for Tucker, who needed to stuff tens of years of experience into as few years as possible to get him up to speed, so to say, with other drivers in his class.
The two made 4 starts with Level 5 Motorsports in the 2008 Rolex series, such as Rolex 24 at Daytona. Before long, Level 5 became a regular attendee of Rolex races, driving a Daytona model. Tucker maintained his Ferrari Challenge entries and won 10 races in 2009. Of which year, he also won the SCCA Touring 1 Class National Championship, his very first national title.
After, Level 5 Motorsports attained momentum, taking third place in the Rolex 24 in 2010 with Tucker, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Lucas Luhr and Richard Westrbrook driving. Finally, they made the turn to the American Le Mans Series, something Tucker had always aspired to participate in. In the new Le Mans Prototype Challenge class, gentleman drivers were allowed to drive 2 cars in the exact same race, with the scoring driver in the highest place vehicle. Tucker and Bouchut saw a chance for success in the brand new class.
Tucker was skilled, but Bouchut had the speed and control that only one with his experience could bring to the track. Sticking with the same mission of winning as many races as they could get into, Bouchut and Tucker fell right into a flawless set up for Level 5, with Bouchut acting as head driver and Tucker holding his own while he also finished practice rounds. Level 5 won five class competitions and took the class title in the LMP Challenge category and was bumped up to LMP2.
In the beginning of 2011, Level 5 was joined by Luis Diaz, who had an abundance of LMP2 experience and made an amazing component to the Tucker-Bouchut formula. The team has had a truly successful year so far, with the Petit Le Mans and Intercontinental Le Mans Cup in China being essentially the only things left on the calendar of a season that included a good number of podium finishes and wins at Imola and other major ALMS races.
But as Level 5 Motorsports moves along, so does Scott Tucker, and before long, the dynamic couple of Tucker-Bouchut could separate. Tucker told Speed TV in 2010 that he and Bouchut would consult each other on which races they would get into together. He said they prefer championships that don't pit 2 qualified drivers against the other; they get too competitive in that setting, he said. Even though any parting would undoubtedly be with good standing on both sides, the continuing success of Tucker begs the question of where he'll go next, who he'll take with him, and how the Level 5 Motorsports team will develop from its burgeoning success.
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