[Dave-ROR]

Originally Posted by lfawishes

Not really. In Circuit racing they are totally needed. It's not about showmanship or stopping quicker, it's about laps and laps of stopping from higher speed over and over equaling crazy heat build up, repetitive heavy use of the brakes from high speed. Hence why the Gazoo fr-s has the heinous monoblock calipers which are more hardcore than sti brembos.


Drifting needs specialized spring ratio and lots of horsepower etc. but of course when you are doing any track speeds for long periods you need good brakes. Drifters aren't coming to a real slow to often, unless something goes wrong.

Actually we don't know anything about the Gazoo brakes beyond pictures (unless I missed something). If they are using 11.6" rotors like the production car then clearly heat was not an issue for them, however I have no idea what size brakes they were and I'm not sure anyone else does either (besides subaru/toyota/gazoo/etc).

Generally if the brakes make it through the first 15-20 minutes of lap time they'll continue to make it through the next hour or two or 8 until they are on the backing plates just as well. My brake temps tend to be about the same after a 15 minute session as they are after an hour session and the race car with less weight shows less temp after two hours. We are pushing more power after the rebuild now though so we'll measure brake temps in march during a 24 hour race at PBIR. I'll be happy to provide the info here.