It needs impressive concentration, persistence, pure talent and enormous time spent in the practice ring for an athlete to master his or her sport to the point of being among the many top competitors in today's world. It does take twice that formula for an athlete to achieve mastery of 2 various playing positions inside that sport. Just what exactly has it taken for Level 5 Motorsports owner and driver Scott Tucker to arive at the world class status in four sports car racing series-all at the same time? Only Scott Tucker knows that.
Not only has Tucker maintained 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 has in fact came out on top in most of them. Not to mention some of his wins came on the same weekends as other wins, since Tucker was often double, triple or quadruple-scheduled.
Tucker's newest 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 really helped the team reach its highest entire finish of the year, at fourth. The car was completely new for the team and for Tucker, but being in the same LMP2 category, it wasn't the severest vehicle discrepancy Tucker had ever faced.
Tucker really helped drive Level 5 Motorsports to a win at the 12 Hours of Sebring, a grueling endurance race in Florida at the Sebring International Raceway. That very same 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 a bit less magnificent if the automobiles were anything alike. When a driver competes in a race, he maintains significant g-forces, tremendously hot 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 over again, only to result in on another podium-seems downright difficult.
"I lose five to seven pounds every race," Tucker reports. In order to manage his overstocked race schedule, he has to keep extreme training in his physical regimen as well as his nutritional. To condition for less intensive schedules, he has woken up at 4:30 a.m. to do sixty minutes of cardio exercise before performing other training. His current 2011 schedule is a lot more strenuous.
"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 automobiles demand different driving styles, Tucker mentioned. His achievements in all 4 series has proven his versatility and strength as a driver, as well as his profound determination to win. But above all, it demonstrates 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 can and treated each one as if it were his last chance for a championship. His success not only as a quite recent driver but also as a multi-car driver is evidence that in sports, anything may be possible.
Not only has Tucker maintained 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 has in fact came out on top in most of them. Not to mention some of his wins came on the same weekends as other wins, since Tucker was often double, triple or quadruple-scheduled.
Tucker's newest 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 really helped the team reach its highest entire finish of the year, at fourth. The car was completely new for the team and for Tucker, but being in the same LMP2 category, it wasn't the severest vehicle discrepancy Tucker had ever faced.
Tucker really helped drive Level 5 Motorsports to a win at the 12 Hours of Sebring, a grueling endurance race in Florida at the Sebring International Raceway. That very same 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 a bit less magnificent if the automobiles were anything alike. When a driver competes in a race, he maintains significant g-forces, tremendously hot 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 over again, only to result in on another podium-seems downright difficult.
"I lose five to seven pounds every race," Tucker reports. In order to manage his overstocked race schedule, he has to keep extreme training in his physical regimen as well as his nutritional. To condition for less intensive schedules, he has woken up at 4:30 a.m. to do sixty minutes of cardio exercise before performing other training. His current 2011 schedule is a lot more strenuous.
"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 automobiles demand different driving styles, Tucker mentioned. His achievements in all 4 series has proven his versatility and strength as a driver, as well as his profound determination to win. But above all, it demonstrates 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 can and treated each one as if it were his last chance for a championship. His success not only as a quite recent driver but also as a multi-car driver is evidence that in sports, anything may be possible.
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