When it comes to brakes, there's no bigger name than Brembo. The Italian company has made a reputation for itself building brakes for high-end carmakers like Ferrari and motorsport applications from ...

In Formula One, braking is not simply about pressing a pedal; it’s a coordinated interplay of mechanical, electronic, and hybrid systems operating under extreme heat and pressure. From mastering ...

When most people who've been blessed enough to drive Formula One cars get out of their first ride, the immediate thing they note is the massive power of the carbon brakes. In the middle of a race, F1 ...

It looks simple, but pressing that pedal unleashes one of the most complex systems in modern motorsport. Alpine’s engineers ...

Formula 1 is now attempting to break through a technological wall, seeking to get more than 1200 holes into a brake disc. This is a perfect encapsulation of everything wonderful and pointless about ...

In the closing laps of the Bahrain Grand Prix, both Mercedes W06s suffered near-simultaneous brake-by-wire failures, the cause of which was mainly attributed to set-up changes to the cars of Lewis ...

The engineers at Brembo brakes have recently provided a wealth of data on brakes used in Formula 1 and in World Endurance Championship prototypes. While both racing classes represent the pinnacle of ...

It hardly takes Captain Obvious to figure out that the brakes on a race car and a road car are in completely different leagues. Of course, this is not a competition between your garden variety road ...

Formula 1 race cars are amazing feats of motorsport engineering. Equally as amazing, however, are the LMP1 prototype racers that run in the various endurance events around the globe, including the 24 ...

Formula One is based in Britain, trades with companies all over the world and sends staff and equipment to races in 21 countries every year. You would expect it to be on track for gridlock as a result ...

Most of the time. when you’re gifted something mundane as a wall-clock, it’s probably going to either sit in a closet or a garbage can within a few minutes of receiving it. We’d think twice about ...