2011 – For the past two races in which Level 5 Motorsports has competed, the team’s main strategy has had to be simply: Avoid traffic. Owner-driver Scott Tucker purchased two Honda prototypes for the team mid-season this year, and so far the cars have given the team very little to worry about. At American Le Mans Series Monterey at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway earlier in September, Tucker nailed a first-place finish in the first of the two prototypes. Later, in October, both LMP2 entries rode in Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. Hoping to fend off the top-of-the-field Nissan entries, Tucker and his team drove the cars to another first-place finish. After the Nissan experienced mechanical problems, the Level 5 Honda HPD ARX-01g entry gained a multiple-lap lead. The drivers of the winning No. 33-Tucker, Christophe Bouchut and Joao Barbosa-needed only to maintain the lead and avoid traffic. As Barbosa said, the track was crowded, and collisions could easily happen.

Scott Tucker and his Level 5 Motorsports teammates recently began the final quarter of a racing year that has included numerous podium appearances, multiple car changes, incredible accomplishments and yet still room for improvement. Tucker, owner and driver for Level 5, has been a leader for the team despite the rookie status he maintained merely months ago. His tight, balanced driving has earned him top honors in the American Le Mans Series as Rookie of the Year and Champion Driver in 2010. His races often end with stints on the podium, and his career has only just begun.

2011 – Following a superb, winning performance at Petit Le Mans last weekend, Scott Tucker and his Level 5 Motorsports team head next to Italy for one of two races remaining on the 2011 schedule. With the season winding down for all five series in which Tucker entered this year, he and the team are able to devote full focus to the remaining ILMC competition. With the ILMC points they earned with their class win at Petit Le Mans, the team seeks a vice championship in ILMC competition, ending with races in Italy and Zhuhai, China.

For the second year in a row, the American Le Mans Series Monterey at Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway on the Monterey Peninsula was a six-hour enduro race that led drivers around the circuit into the post-sundown darkness.

Previously, the race had been four hours, with the addition of two extra hours in 2010. For Scott Tucker and his Level 5 Motorsports racing team, the two extra hours allow for some breathing room. “We always try to run a clean race, but little mistakes can add up,” Tucker said last year. “Two extra hours can be a huge advantage even for experienced teams because of those unexpected things you tend to run into with endurance races.”

Scott Tucker and his awesome Level 5 Motorsports teammates traded their racing jumpsuits for suit jackets and slacks for the American Le Mans Series season banquet a couple weeks ago. The banquet happened to honor various achievements through the 2011 season by various members of each motorsports team in the league.

The Level 5 Motorsports team’s performance at Petit Le Mans recently was a testament to the fact that you can set yourself up for success. Team owner-driver Scott Tucker has spent the last full year preparing for the team’s LMP2 class debut at Road Atlanta in Petit Le Mans, the final race of the American Le Mans Series season. Tucker built the team, they practiced, and they were all but perfect at the race.

2011 – Scott Tucker will attempt to make history this weekend behind the wheel of a Porsche in the SCCA National Championship Runoffs at Road America. If he pulls it off, Tucker will join an exclusive group of drivers who have won three consecutive national championship titles at the Runoffs, one of the most highly regarded races in the country.

2011 – Scott Tucker’s quest for a Ferrari Challenge Series world championship got off to a great start Thursday. The driver of the No. 755 Boardwalk Ferrari F430 earned the top qualifying position with a speed of 158.416 mph in preparation for Friday’s North American division race No. 1 at the Ferrari Challenge International Finals at Mugello Circuit in Mugello, Italy.

It is Scott Tucker’s first time back in competition behind the wheel of an F430 in Challenge Series competition since last November, when he won a race and finished second in the other at the Ferrari Challenge International Finals in Spain. Following Race number 1 on Friday will be a second race on Saturday. Then, the season comes to a close with the F430 World Finals on Sunday where Tucker looks to solidify another driving championship.

A round of applause greeted the ears of Level 5 Motorsports driver Luis Diaz as he took off his helmet after his 15-minute prototype qualifying run at Petit Le Mans last Friday. He had just beaten the No. 26 Signatech Oreca 03 Nissan of JK Vernay inches before the checkered flag to secure the pole position for the race on Saturday.

The qualifying victory fulfilled a hope that Level 5 Motorsports and owner Scott Tucker have had for months. Earlier this year, Tucker invested in two brand new HPD ARX-01g LMP2 cars in order to ensure that the team would be competitive in the LMP2 field, especially challenging the usually dominant Nissans. Diaz’s finish was exactly the result Level 5 had hoped to see, and it sent them confidently into Saturday’s race.

BRASELTON, GA. – The Peugeot Lion roared to victory at Petit Le Mans as Michelin and its technical partner teams from Peugeot, Oreca Peugeot and Aston Martin Racin claimed the top three spots in the final race of the 2011 American Le Mans Series season and the penultimate round of the prestigious Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.

Michelin technical partner teams took wins in every professional class of open competition, and secured the ALMS GT category tire championship.

Peugeot’s victory here in the 1,000-mile race at Road Atlanta clinches the ILMC Prototype Manufacturer’s championship. Finishing sixth overall and first in the LMP2 class was the HPD ARX-01G of Christophe Bouchut, Joao Barbosa, and Scott Tucker.