Strategy helps out Scott Tucker and his Dream Team as they take on the Season

Whenever private equity investor-turned motorsports climbing legend Scott Tucker set his order for the brand-new Honda Performance Development/Wirth Research cost-capped prototype car, under “quantity,” it stated 2. Tucker reserved the 1st 2 chassis for his Level 5 Motorsports team to use as soon as they can, which turned out to be last weekend in the HPD ARX-01g’s debut appearance, at ModSpace American Le Mans in Monterey, Calif. The race was just one more win for the David Stone-managed, Microsoft Office-sponsored team of Tucker, Christophe Bouchut and Luis Diaz; the team made a important pass through the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup series as well as the American Le Mans Series, making podium at quite a few races and winning at a number of others, which includes Imola.

Obviously, not only good luck brought 2 experienced motorists along with a newbie making them win races. Each one of the drivers focuses on another area and comes from a different history, however they all share a serious love for racing sports vehicles and a level of expertise and experience that lends itself to specific, managed, well balanced driving at greatest speed. They key to the team’s group achievement is determing the best formula for driver order and race strategy-part of which involves Tucker reserving a couple of the Honda chassis prototypes.

Tucker and Bouchut, who was his driving coach at the time, decided to enter the Le Mans Prototype class after looking at the car in 2010. The make of the car was intriguing enough, but given the fact that the series would have Class A and Class B drivers race together at the championship, Tucker wanted in. Bouchut, one of the most successful endurance drivers in the world and an industry veteran, had been helping Tucker improve since his Grand-Am debut, and the two entered the LMPC program together full-time in 2010.

Another attractive element of the new prototype class was that a new IMSA rule allowed gentleman drivers in LMPC or GTC class to drive two cars, with the scoring driver in the higher-placed entry. That allowance spawned Level 5 Motorsports’ winning Nos. 55 and 95 cars, which carried the team through the next year to win the LMP championship, which bumped Level 5 into the LMP2 class, for which the HPD ARX-01g cars will take over starting last weekend.

The process involved with 2 vehicles worked for Level 5 Motorsports, with an extremely experienced veteran in Christophe Bouchut and the other coming at the beginning of This year in Luis Diaz. Tucker, who had been a newbie at Forty-four in 2006, got training with the two-car technique Level 5 uses, saving himself time and effort and enhancing the team’s structure all the while.

Tucker had mostly kept out of the limelight, though he rapidly built a winning record after his racing debut. But Le Mans had always been one of his goals, and so when the time was right enough, he added high-profile racing veterans to his inner circle and set about leaving the Level 5 mark on every ALMS and ILMC track he could.

In 2010, Bouchut entered his 17th Le Mans race; only 14 other drivers have ever completed the race more times. But Tucker had never appeared in Le Mans; strategy again played an integral part in achieving success in the race. Although Bouchut could easily compete with the series’ top drivers, the entire Level 5 team had to hold their own in order to succeed. Bouchut was slated as the lead driver, with Tucker and Manu Rodriguez rounding out the group. The team’s collective goal was to qualify at a solid pace and be competitive, a mindset that has continued through the 2011 season. With seemingly a continuous checklist in their minds-get the best car, qualify strong, stay competitive, always aim for the win-the Level 5 team arranges race day around it.

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