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Originally Posted by 86Craze
Is there any advantage of running a track brake pad over an autocross brake pad for autocross?
Are there say advatages of having an AX6 pad over an xp8/10 pad for autocross purposes ? Thanks.
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No, and in many circumstances the track pad will be worse for autox than a less aggressive pad.
Many dedicated track pads need to come up to temp to work well and there just isn't time for that to happen at autox. Also, the biggest differences for track pads is that they hold up to higher temperatures, but again, at autox you won't heat up the brakes enough to worry about.
An XP8/10 will work fine for autox (they're pretty popular choices), but if you went to like 14-20 those probably wouldn't work too well (they'd never get up to operating temp).
For autox, you want something that'll work cold, has high initial bite (how much is mostly down to personal preference), and is consistent. In fact, you could run stock pads without problem at autox (they work well enough).
I'm actually worried that my Ferodo DS 1.11 won't work well at autox because they are too track focused (my street pads are Hawk HPS and I hate them at autox).