It entails amazing concentration, self-discipline, pure talent and huge time spent in the practice ring for an athlete to master their sport to the point of being just one of the top competitors across the world. It does take two times that recipe for an athlete to get to mastery of two different playing positions in that sport. Just what has it taken for Level 5 Motorsports owner and driver Scott Tucker to attain fabulous status in several sports car racing series-all at the same time? Only Scott Tucker knows that.
Not only has Tucker kept an improbable agenda of races in the American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am series, Ferrari Challenge series and the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup series, but he's actually was successful in all of them. And also most of his victories came on the same weekends as other wins, since Tucker was often double, triple or quadruple-scheduled.
Tucker's latest podium finish was with a brand new vehicle, last weekend at the American Le Mans Series Monterey at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway. The Microsoft Office-sponsored car was the product of a partnership among Honda Performance Development and Wirth Research. The HPD ARX-01g really helped the team reach its strongest overall finish of the season, at fourth. The automobile was totally new for the team and for Tucker, but being in the same exact LMP2 group, it wasn't the severest vehicle discrepancy Tucker had ever faced.
Tucker helped drive Level 5 Motorsports to a win at the 12 Hours of Sebring, a difficult endurance race in Florida at the Sebring International Raceway. That exact weekend, he was also schedule to drive in the Porsche GT3 Cup. He drove, and he won-his 2nd win of the weekend in as many races.
These accomplishments would be to some extent less awesome if the cars were anything alike. Every time a driver competes in a race, he keeps significant g-forces, especially warm temperatures, hours of intense focus and effort, and constant critical thought. In endurance racing especially, to have these conditions and come out on top seems a superhuman feat-but to leave the podium finish and do it all another time, only to wind up on another podium-seems downright unattainable.
"I lose five to seven pounds every race," Tucker has stated. In order to hold his overstocked race schedule, he has to keep serious willpower in his physical regimen as well as his health. To condition for less intense schedules, he has woken up at 4:30 a.m. to do one hour of cardio workouts before performing other training. His current 2011 schedule is much more demanding.
"Driving a Porsche and a prototype couldn't be anything more different," Tucker said while at Sebring. "I've done it in the past, and I've kind of gotten used to it, but it's still a pretty difficult thing to do."
The vehicles must have unique driving styles, Tucker suggested. His achievements in all 4 series has proven his versatility and staying power as a driver, as well as his profound dedication to win. But primarily, it illustrates the love for the sport. Having entered the industry as a newbie in 2006 at the age of Forty four, Tucker didn't have a lot of time to waste. He has always entered every race he possibly can and treated each one as if it were his last chance for a championship. His success not only as a relatively new driver but also as a multi-car driver is evidence that in sports, anything may happen.
Not only has Tucker kept an improbable agenda of races in the American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am series, Ferrari Challenge series and the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup series, but he's actually was successful in all of them. And also most of his victories came on the same weekends as other wins, since Tucker was often double, triple or quadruple-scheduled.
Tucker's latest podium finish was with a brand new vehicle, last weekend at the American Le Mans Series Monterey at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway. The Microsoft Office-sponsored car was the product of a partnership among Honda Performance Development and Wirth Research. The HPD ARX-01g really helped the team reach its strongest overall finish of the season, at fourth. The automobile was totally new for the team and for Tucker, but being in the same exact LMP2 group, it wasn't the severest vehicle discrepancy Tucker had ever faced.
Tucker helped drive Level 5 Motorsports to a win at the 12 Hours of Sebring, a difficult endurance race in Florida at the Sebring International Raceway. That exact weekend, he was also schedule to drive in the Porsche GT3 Cup. He drove, and he won-his 2nd win of the weekend in as many races.
These accomplishments would be to some extent less awesome if the cars were anything alike. Every time a driver competes in a race, he keeps significant g-forces, especially warm temperatures, hours of intense focus and effort, and constant critical thought. In endurance racing especially, to have these conditions and come out on top seems a superhuman feat-but to leave the podium finish and do it all another time, only to wind up on another podium-seems downright unattainable.
"I lose five to seven pounds every race," Tucker has stated. In order to hold his overstocked race schedule, he has to keep serious willpower in his physical regimen as well as his health. To condition for less intense schedules, he has woken up at 4:30 a.m. to do one hour of cardio workouts before performing other training. His current 2011 schedule is much more demanding.
"Driving a Porsche and a prototype couldn't be anything more different," Tucker said while at Sebring. "I've done it in the past, and I've kind of gotten used to it, but it's still a pretty difficult thing to do."
The vehicles must have unique driving styles, Tucker suggested. His achievements in all 4 series has proven his versatility and staying power as a driver, as well as his profound dedication to win. But primarily, it illustrates the love for the sport. Having entered the industry as a newbie in 2006 at the age of Forty four, Tucker didn't have a lot of time to waste. He has always entered every race he possibly can and treated each one as if it were his last chance for a championship. His success not only as a relatively new driver but also as a multi-car driver is evidence that in sports, anything may happen.
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