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It does take fantastic focus, willpower, natural talent and big time put in the practice ring for an athlete to master her or his sport to the point of being one of several top competitors on earth. It does take two times that formula for an athlete to attain mastery of 2 diverse playing positions inside of that sport. Just what exactly has it taken for Level 5 Motorsports owner and driver Scott Tucker to attain first class status in several sports car racing series-all at the same time? Only Scott Tucker knows that.
Not only has Tucker maintained an improbable 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 actually succeeded in all of them. Not to mention 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 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 assisted the group reach its maximum all round finish of the year, at 4th. The automobile was completely new for the team and for Tucker, but being in the exact same 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 grueling endurance race in Florida at the Sebring International Raceway. That same 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 accomplishments would be somewhat less remarkable if the vehicles were anything alike. Whenever a driver competes in a race, he maintains significant g-forces, very warm 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 wind up on another podium-seems downright extremely hard.
"I lose five to seven pounds every race," Tucker has stated. To be able to keep his overstocked race schedule, he has to keep intense self-discipline in his physical regimen as well as his health. To condition for less extreme schedules, he has woken up at 4:30 a.m. to do one hour of cardio exercise before performing other training. His current 2011 schedule is much 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 require different driving styles, Tucker said. His success in all four series has proven his versatility and endurance as a driver, as well as his profound determination to win. But above all, it illustrates his passion for the sport. Having entered the industry as a rookie in 2006 at the age of 44, Tucker didn't have a lot of time to waste. He has consistently 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 proof that in sports, anything is possible.
Not only has Tucker maintained an improbable 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 actually succeeded in all of them. Not to mention 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 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 assisted the group reach its maximum all round finish of the year, at 4th. The automobile was completely new for the team and for Tucker, but being in the exact same 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 grueling endurance race in Florida at the Sebring International Raceway. That same 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 accomplishments would be somewhat less remarkable if the vehicles were anything alike. Whenever a driver competes in a race, he maintains significant g-forces, very warm 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 wind up on another podium-seems downright extremely hard.
"I lose five to seven pounds every race," Tucker has stated. To be able to keep his overstocked race schedule, he has to keep intense self-discipline in his physical regimen as well as his health. To condition for less extreme schedules, he has woken up at 4:30 a.m. to do one hour of cardio exercise before performing other training. His current 2011 schedule is much 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 require different driving styles, Tucker said. His success in all four series has proven his versatility and endurance as a driver, as well as his profound determination to win. But above all, it illustrates his passion for the sport. Having entered the industry as a rookie in 2006 at the age of 44, Tucker didn't have a lot of time to waste. He has consistently 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 proof that in sports, anything is possible.
