Brembo provided flights from Austin to Paris and accommodation so Ars could attend Le Mans and visit the Brembo factory. Ars does not accept paid editorial content.
LE MANS, FRANCE—It’s 2 am at the Circuit de la Sarthe, just a few hours from Paris, France. The 24 Hours of Le Mans race is nearly halfway through, and fans are late-night snacking, snoozing in their sleeping bags, or pressed up against the fence to watch the cars zip by. The sound is thunderous as a batch of hypercars pass, each brand with a distinctive pattern of notes.
The real show after darkness falls is not the laser lights or drone formation but the sight of red-hot brake calipers glowing through the front wheels at the turns. Turn four, in particular, put on a display of fiery orange and red, visible to the naked eye.
For the first time, all 62 cars on the 2025

Link to original post https://arstechnica.com/cars/2025/07/why-brembo-uses-endurance-racing-as-a-test-bench-for-brake-development/ from Teknoids News

Read the original story