- [Narrator] Four drivers.
Two cars.
One goal: to win.
This is In The Pit With 3GT Racing.
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- In a business sport like this,
you make friends and you make enemies.
And Scott Pruett has been my friend
since the very beginning.
We've won championships together as co-drivers.
We won the 24-hour of Daytona,
and there isn't a more quality guy in the sport
or a guy that has, no one has achieved
what he's achieved.
- His feel for the car is really, very finely tuned.
He finds little things that
a lot of other guys don't necessarily see.
- Before, it was absolutely an (mumbles).
Right now, like when I'm entering, I'm entering ...
let's call a foot, maybe?
- So many things we're learning here
at Watkins Glen with the RC F.
And we're also getting into the season a bit
so we're starting to understand the car,
we're starting to have that window that we like
to run a car in aerodynamically, mechanically,
so when we come here, we're just expanding that a bit.
Now that we've gotten a number of races under our belt,
we take all that data and get a bigger understanding
of what we need and what we're looking for out of the car.
- His attention to detail, both, I think, in his life,
and then in the car are really greater
than you see out of a lot of other people.
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- [Announcer] Scotty Pruett, one of the best,
five over for all wins it at the Rolex 24,
10 total included class wins
and continues to perform at the top of his game.
- [Announcer] When you look at the season,
you had a quote at Detroit, you said you really felt
like you turned the corner in this program at Detroit.
What was it that you guys found?
- Lexus RC F GT3, we been just continually
learning more about it, every test, every mile, every race.
Every time we get it on track we're learning more
about what it likes and what it doesn't like.
And remember, this was a brand new car this year,
and there was no previous generation car to go off of
so we're just going to keep doing what we're doing.
The team's doing a great job,
and just focus on all the little pieces because that's,
once you start running the front,
it's all those little things that add up
to try and get you to victory lane.
- He won championships driving for our teams.
He's won championships with me and he's won with Ganassi
and Roush and everybody else in this sport so
we all have to acknowledge that that's his ability.
Now, we're in a different environment.
He's not the godfather, he's the consiliare of the team.
Scott, who really is a lot like Jack,
his family mortgaged their house
to get him an Indy car test.
- That was a huge sum of money.
I mean that was a massive sum of money
and the only thing I thought was,
I can always make more money.
But it was everything I had plus borrowing as much
as I could friends and I just, roll the dice.
Put up or shut up.
- When he went to the Jack Roush Gong show in the early 80s,
he came away as the fast guy.
He couldn't buy his ride.
He had to talent his way into his ride.
Now, Scott's been a tremendous businessman
and has been successful, he's got a great winery.
- You know the wine business has taken off
and has gone places where I never thought it would've.
I mean, here we are the highest rated Shiraz
in the United States according to Wine Spectator.
You know, there's a lot of pressure,
should you do more, should you do --
I'm good man, this is what, I'm going to make what I make,
we released in October, we sold out in mid-February,
and that's what we're going to do.
For me, personally, it's a nice balance
between this hectic, crazy, insane life of racing
that you live in, in fractions of a second,
in comparison to the wine business,
it's something you live in years, or vintages.
- I swear he's saved every nickel he ever made.
The only clothes he ever wears are clothes a team gives him.
I've never seen him in anything,
it's not like he went to Neiman Marcus
and bought that shirt,
somebody gave him Scott that shirt.
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- Really anywhere we go, it's always like
Scott's got the most experience ever.
I learn so much off of him, like,
always say hello to your family at home,
you got to do that.
- [Announcer] You have been here,
I mean other than wooden horse and cart chariots,
I think you've raced everything around this track, right?
Indy cars, Trans Am, everything!
- I've been around here 962s and XCR 12s,
and XCR 15s and now back in a Lexus, so
I love this place, I love the fans.
- He really goes out of his way to make sure
that the team is going to get the best result,
that I'm going to do the best I can,
that even a sister car and all those guys
are going to do the best they can.
He's a really big team player and I think that's what
it takes to make a team in sports car racing great.
- You don't end up at his level at 56 years old
without some internal drive,
and that same drive also pushes the team.
In as much as he's hard on himself and he pushes himself,
he pushes us, as well.
When Scott asks a question, you better figure
the answer out because he's not going to forget.
He still wants to be the god
so he's very competitive and that's what John
and the engineers on that side of the stand
have to work with.
- Hi to my family at home.