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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.
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I've had my suspicions about those brakes: they look like caliper covers as they don't match anything from Brembo or AP for racing... perhaps camouflage? Iron 1-piece plain rotors, rubber brake lines, non-plumbed brake ducts... seems like an odd configuration with those heavy-looking calipers.