It entails good concentration, enthusiasm, pure talent and huge time put in the practice ring for an athlete to master their sport to the point of being among the many top competitors on this planet. It requires two times that recipe for an athlete to attain expertise of 2 various playing positions inside of that sport. Exactly what has it taken for Level 5 Motorsports owner and driver Scott Tucker to get to top class status in four different sports car racing series-all at the same time? Only Scott Tucker knows that.
Not only has Tucker kept an impossible schedule of races in the American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am series, Ferrari Challenge series and the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup series, but he has in fact been successful in most of them. Along with some of his victories came on the same weekends as other wins, since Tucker was often double, triple or quadruple-scheduled.
Tucker's most up-to-date podium end 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 concerning Honda Performance Development and Wirth Research. The HPD ARX-01g made it easier for the group reach its top overall finish of the year, at 4th. The vehicle was new for the team and for Tucker, but being in the very same LMP2 category, it wasn't the severest vehicle discrepancy Tucker had ever faced.
Tucker assisted drive Level 5 Motorsports to a win at the 12 Hours of Sebring, a hard endurance race in Florida at the Sebring International Raceway. That same exact weekend, he was also schedule to drive in the Porsche GT3 Cup. He drove, and he won-his second win of the weekend in as many races.
These feats would be just a bit less spectacular if the cars were anything alike. When a driver competes in a race, he maintains significant g-forces, exceptionally hot temperatures, hours of intense focus and effort, and constant critical thought. In endurance racing especially, to pass through 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 end up on another podium-seems downright very unlikely.
"I lose five to seven pounds every race," Tucker states. In an effort to manage his overstocked race schedule, he has to hold intensive willpower in his physical regimen as well as his health. To condition for less intensive schedules, he has woken up at 4:30 a.m. to do at least an hour of cardio exercises before performing other training. His current 2011 schedule is more challenging.
"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 cars demand different driving styles, Tucker explained. His success in all four series has established his versatility and strength as a driver, as well as his profound determination to win. But primarily, it illustrates the love for the sport. Having entered the industry as a beginner in 2006 at the age of 44, Tucker didn't have a lot of time to waste. He has continually 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 somewhat new driver but also as a multi-car driver is evidence that in sports, anything is quite possible.
Not only has Tucker kept an impossible schedule of races in the American Le Mans Series, Grand-Am series, Ferrari Challenge series and the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup series, but he has in fact been successful in most of them. Along with some of his victories came on the same weekends as other wins, since Tucker was often double, triple or quadruple-scheduled.
Tucker's most up-to-date podium end 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 concerning Honda Performance Development and Wirth Research. The HPD ARX-01g made it easier for the group reach its top overall finish of the year, at 4th. The vehicle was new for the team and for Tucker, but being in the very same LMP2 category, it wasn't the severest vehicle discrepancy Tucker had ever faced.
Tucker assisted drive Level 5 Motorsports to a win at the 12 Hours of Sebring, a hard endurance race in Florida at the Sebring International Raceway. That same exact weekend, he was also schedule to drive in the Porsche GT3 Cup. He drove, and he won-his second win of the weekend in as many races.
These feats would be just a bit less spectacular if the cars were anything alike. When a driver competes in a race, he maintains significant g-forces, exceptionally hot temperatures, hours of intense focus and effort, and constant critical thought. In endurance racing especially, to pass through 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 end up on another podium-seems downright very unlikely.
"I lose five to seven pounds every race," Tucker states. In an effort to manage his overstocked race schedule, he has to hold intensive willpower in his physical regimen as well as his health. To condition for less intensive schedules, he has woken up at 4:30 a.m. to do at least an hour of cardio exercises before performing other training. His current 2011 schedule is more challenging.
"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 cars demand different driving styles, Tucker explained. His success in all four series has established his versatility and strength as a driver, as well as his profound determination to win. But primarily, it illustrates the love for the sport. Having entered the industry as a beginner in 2006 at the age of 44, Tucker didn't have a lot of time to waste. He has continually 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 somewhat new driver but also as a multi-car driver is evidence that in sports, anything is quite possible.
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