Video: Take a fast lap at Daytona in the No. 31 Cadillac IMSA GTP

It looks so easy, what's the big deal?  

That braking into T1 is just absolutely mental. I'm braking slightly earlier in the BMW going 150 than he is in a GTP car doing just over 200. He's also braking all the way down to the apex which is really tricky to do there because the road angle changes so many times. The aero certainly helps stabilize things, but it helps less and less the closer you get to the apex as speed decreases.

That's one of those things that I tel myself I'm going to work on every time I'm at Daytona and I never manage to perfect it. I always end up just trailbraking about 1/3 of the way in on a wide entry. It gets me a nice exit, but it's an exit onto pretty much the shortest accelration zone on track, so I'd still be way better off maximizing entry than exit.

Oh well, I guess that's why I sleep in my own bed during the Rolex.

I've always heard that one turn referred to as 'the bus stop', but I've always wondered why.

BA5 said:

I've always heard that one turn referred to as 'the bus stop', but I've always wondered why.

It's a pretty fast "bus stop", I think the GTP cars are going over 80 mph through the chicane.