Reppunkamui
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Hi all,
Had my first track day at Sandown Raceway (Australia) on the weekend and had a blast on a beautiful day (see photo). Best lap was 1:28.085 on this 3.1 km track with stock tyres, which I felt cemented the car as a good track car IMO, as I am an amateur...
Anyway, the track is known as being hard on your brakes... The car did pretty well regardless with barely noticeable brake fade (1 cooling lap every 4 laps, 20 minutes on track per hour). However, after letting the brakes cool overnight, and having a good look at the front rotors, the hard braking seemed to put some deep grooves in the rotors, texture is like an LP record. I still have plenty of pad left and brakes seem to work fine... no squealing or anything...
I am not sure if this is normal (don't remember this on any of my other cars), so I thought I would just ask some of the more experienced regulars out there? Not sure if I got the stock pads and rotors too hot. Unfortunately photos don't seem to come out well to show this...
Happy to hear any feedback.
P.S. Opening up the front bumper fake vent (hear headlight) to hopefully increase front brake cooling keeps going through my mind now...
Had my first track day at Sandown Raceway (Australia) on the weekend and had a blast on a beautiful day (see photo). Best lap was 1:28.085 on this 3.1 km track with stock tyres, which I felt cemented the car as a good track car IMO, as I am an amateur...
Anyway, the track is known as being hard on your brakes... The car did pretty well regardless with barely noticeable brake fade (1 cooling lap every 4 laps, 20 minutes on track per hour). However, after letting the brakes cool overnight, and having a good look at the front rotors, the hard braking seemed to put some deep grooves in the rotors, texture is like an LP record. I still have plenty of pad left and brakes seem to work fine... no squealing or anything...
I am not sure if this is normal (don't remember this on any of my other cars), so I thought I would just ask some of the more experienced regulars out there? Not sure if I got the stock pads and rotors too hot. Unfortunately photos don't seem to come out well to show this...
Happy to hear any feedback.
P.S. Opening up the front bumper fake vent (hear headlight) to hopefully increase front brake cooling keeps going through my mind now...
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