Carbon fiber disc brake rotors are nothing new. Rotors constructed from a combination of carbon and ceramic materials have been used by the automotive and aerospace industries for decades, but the ...

Round, fuzzy sheets of fabric. Initially, the stack of carbon fiber looks like something the cat hacked up, rather than a crucial component of a race car. At Brembo's motorsport workshop in Curno, ...

Paul Watson, an experienced Porsche tech with Porsche Australia, had some interesting things to say about carbon ceramic brake discs in a recent interview with Australia’s Wheels Magazine. According ...

But what you really want to know is how the heck Brembo makes those big black rotors that stop the fastest Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Porsches, and Corvettes like a wall of jello? (The world's top nine ...

Answering every question you've ever had about these fancy brakes, but were too afraid to ask. A couple of years ago, a Brembo engineer told me something that stuck: If you buy a car with ...

When Kettle Cycles’ launched their Kickstarter project with the goal of creating a carbon-ceramic composite disc brake rotor, cyclocross tech geeks had a field day. After all, with the launch of disc ...

Carbon-ceramic brakes can substantially improve performance, but they're also a lot more expensive than conventional brakes. This Engineering Explained video dives into why carbon-ceramic brakes are ...

Braam has nearly two decades of experience in the auto media industry. He has worked at all of South Africa's leading motoring titles, including TopCar, Car Magazine, Cars.co.za and TopGear, which he ...

Here's a little treat for all you cost-no-object tricknology fetishists out there. These carbon/aluminium beauties weigh just 70g each, compared to the likes of XTR rotors, which come in at 125g each.