It takes outstanding focus, dedication, natural talent and big time spent in the practice ring for an athlete to master their sport to the point of being on the list of top competitors anywhere. It does take twice that formula for an athlete to get to mastery of two various playing positions inside that sport. So what exactly has it taken for Level 5 Motorsports owner and driver Scott Tucker to arive at outstanding status in 4 sports car racing series-all at the same time? Only Scott Tucker knows that.
Not only has Tucker maintained an impossible 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 in fact was successful in all of them. Not forgetting several 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 an all new car, 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 assisted the group reach its greatest overall finish of the season, at 4th. The automobile was brand new for the team and for Tucker, but being in the exact 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 grueling 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 2nd win of the weekend in as many races.
These feats would be a little less superb if the automobiles were anything alike. Every time a driver competes in a race, he keeps significant g-forces, tremendously 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 over again, only to wind up on another podium-seems downright out of the question.
"I lose five to seven pounds every race," Tucker states. In order to manage his overstocked race schedule, he must maintain serious willpower 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 workouts before performing other training. His current 2011 schedule is a lot 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 mandate unique driving styles, Tucker pointed out. His achievements in all four series has proven his overall flexibility and stamina 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 beginner in 2006 at the age of 44, Tucker didn't have a lot of time to waste. He has continuously 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 is realistic.
Not only has Tucker maintained an impossible 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 in fact was successful in all of them. Not forgetting several 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 an all new car, 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 assisted the group reach its greatest overall finish of the season, at 4th. The automobile was brand new for the team and for Tucker, but being in the exact 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 grueling 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 2nd win of the weekend in as many races.
These feats would be a little less superb if the automobiles were anything alike. Every time a driver competes in a race, he keeps significant g-forces, tremendously 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 over again, only to wind up on another podium-seems downright out of the question.
"I lose five to seven pounds every race," Tucker states. In order to manage his overstocked race schedule, he must maintain serious willpower 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 workouts before performing other training. His current 2011 schedule is a lot 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 mandate unique driving styles, Tucker pointed out. His achievements in all four series has proven his overall flexibility and stamina 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 beginner in 2006 at the age of 44, Tucker didn't have a lot of time to waste. He has continuously 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 is realistic.
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