Oh yeah, almost forgot. They may last longer in the 4 pot Toyota calipers...
Still, one of the secrets to going fast is minimizing the brake usage, I
suppose. That's not one of the things I really concentrate on yet. I pick
out the fastest corners and work hard at carrying as much speed through
them as possible. Like turns 1, 2, and 8 at Mosport, or turn 1, 7, the
carousel, especially the kink at Road America. Never felt like I got max
speed in the left-hand falling away corner at the end of the esses at VIR,
but that would qualify. Seems like one of the Carrolls wrote that in a
secrets to speed book (Carroll Smith or Shelby?). Picking up the 5 mph you
lost in a 50 mph corner takes much less time than picking up the 5 mph you
lost in a 100 mph corner was the theory. Sounded good and seems to
work. Kinda high pucker factor, though. :)
- Tony
At 05:59 PM 12/16/2004, Henry Frye wrote:
>At 05:55 PM 12/16/2004 -0600, Tony Drews wrote:
>
>>I changed my pads late in the season (one or two events ago). I have
>>been running those pads since shortly after I bought the car 2 1/2 years
>>ago. They probably still have a race weekend left in them. I did have
>>the rotors resurfaced earlier in the year now that you mention it. They
>>were a couple of thou out of true.
>
>Two years on a set of brake pads? Geez, no wonder you are so fast.
>
>Oh, wait... I'll bet you are not running Girling calipers! ;-)
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