Sebastien Bourdais is one of the great drivers of our generation. In fact, me and Sabastien are just about the same age, so he’s one of the guys I tend to follow a little in the racing world, mainly to shame myself. He was a dominant Champ car racer winning multiple titles in a row, he’s run in Formula One, Grand-Am, LeMans, IndyCar, the Indy 500, and the Aussie V8 Supercar series. That’s a crazy diverse resume for a dude who is only 34 years old. Bourdais was teamed up with Christian Fittipaldi and Joao Barbosa last weekend at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. The threesome won the race in a Corvette prototype, much to the happiness of General Motors and Chevrolet fans everywhere. Like all 24 hour races, the team did have its moments though and the video below captures one of them. If this in’t the ballsiest entry to the pits you have ever seen, you need to direct us to what’s better because we just don’t know.

More than a gusty move, this video is proof of the skill that top level racing talent has for knowing what their equipment is capable of and what they are capable of while in it. Basically you’ll see Bourdais execute a pass as he is coming up on the pit entrance at a very high rate of speed. He makes the pass, darts inside of the slower car and lands on the brakes with everything he has to haul the prototype down in time to abide by the pit speed limit. The guy is coming off the banking at full kill trying to catch the pass the slower GT car as to make the entrance and he does it, but by the hair on his teeth only. If lesser qualified drivers had tried that there would have probably been a wreck. Bourdais knew exactly when he was able to get by the other guy and he seems to have goosed the throttle to do it! We’d give our left arm for the telemetry graph of this sequence. From the accelerative forces used to pass the slower car to the lateral forces when he dives toward the pit road, and finally the negative Gs when the brakes are hammered to slow the car. It has to show some really wild stuff!

While it all looks “easy” from outside the car, we think you’ll appreciate what you are seeing here. This is driving at its highest competitive level. Oh, and the first person who asks, “why didn’t he just slow down before the pits,” can leave their BS card at the door. This is racing, people!

PRESS PLAY BELOW TO SEE SEBASTIEN BOUDRAIS PULL OFF AN AMAZING MOVE TO ENTER THE PITS AT THE 2014 ROLEX 24 AT DAYTONA!