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Originally Posted by SirBrass

I ran my first session on Saturday with all tc/vsc turned on like my instructor said. I got the feeling that in certain circumstances where he was telling me to put power on and I WAS, but it felt like something was being held back that TC was intervening without flashing the traction light. So, the rest of the sessions I put it into vsc sport mode so that TC would kick in with brakes only if it had to kick in... which is that it was only going to be intervening at the same time it'd be flashing the traction light.

Also, ended up boiling my brake fluid towards the end of my last session. During the one part of the track where very heavy braking is required (coming into a very tight turn after the straight), I had clear traffic ahead and had been accelerating down the straight and I came to the braking zone, put on the brakes heavily (not sharply), and towards the end of applying brakes it felt like the car stopped decelerating, even though I was still applying increased brakes, and abs didn't kick in. Thankfully I had still slowed enough to make the turn properly.

Time for RBF600.

What you describe was probably pad fade actually. From what I understand, boiled brakes tend to be expressed by increasing pedal travel until you get to the floor. Pad fade on the other hand is as you described, it feels like the brakes just aren't grabbing.