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Originally Posted by mike the snake
The brakes used on F1 cars are carbon, not ceramic if I'm not mistaken. They need to get very hot to work properly.
The wheel size limiting braking was something that was put it place a long time ago when F1 brakes were very different.
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Carbon ceramic composite. I said ceramic because I think that's the most accurate term for it. A ceramic substrate with carbon fiber.
If I were balling out of control I'd get them on all my sports cars for the weight reduction. There's not many places on a car where you can swap one thing and drop so much mass, and unsprung mass at that. Plus, I want a Porsche, and yellow calipers on them look awesome lol.
For Formula 1, I don't think going to iron brakes is necessary. Carbon ceramic brakes is only a tiny fraction of the cost of the car, the voodoo crap they put in the engine and all the aero is what costs all the money.