It needs superb concentration, strength of mind, pure talent and huge time put in the practice ring for an athlete to master their sport to the point of being the top competitors worldwide. It does take double that recipe for an athlete to attain mastery of two different playing positions in that sport. So what exactly has it taken for Level 5 Motorsports owner and driver Scott Tucker to attain superb status in four sports car racing series-all at the same time? Only Scott Tucker knows that.
Not only has Tucker preserved 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 succeeded in most of them. Including 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 degree less notable if the cars were anything alike. Whenever a driver competes in a race, he keeps significant g-forces, remarkably 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 finish up on another podium-seems downright extremely hard.
"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 cars have to have different driving styles, Tucker proclaimed. His achievements in all 4 series has validated his overall flexibility and staying power as a driver, as well as his profound determination to win. But particularly true, it illustrates his passion for the sport. Having entered the industry as a novice in 2006 at the age of Forty four, Tucker didn't have a lot of time to waste. He has frequently 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 realistic.
Not only has Tucker preserved 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 succeeded in most of them. Including 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 degree less notable if the cars were anything alike. Whenever a driver competes in a race, he keeps significant g-forces, remarkably 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 finish up on another podium-seems downright extremely hard.
"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 cars have to have different driving styles, Tucker proclaimed. His achievements in all 4 series has validated his overall flexibility and staying power as a driver, as well as his profound determination to win. But particularly true, it illustrates his passion for the sport. Having entered the industry as a novice in 2006 at the age of Forty four, Tucker didn't have a lot of time to waste. He has frequently 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 realistic.
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