I’m not quite sure how I would be over using them. Isn’t the whole point to try to use 100% of your traction at all times? If I was braking late in the front or back straights, after 4 laps my brakes were toast. My options would have been:
- Go slower down the straight
- Brake earlier
- Go faster around turn 1.
Options 1 and 2 was what I went with, and then I could stay out for the full 20 minute session, but it certainly wasn’t the fast way around the track. Most of the people I waved by caught me entering turns, because I was on the brakes early to conserve the brakes.
Option 3 wasn’t really an option, since I was using the entire track and taking the proper line in 1, same for what ever turn was at the end of the back straight.
I think most of the brake problems come from the fact that my car has a lot HP to get the speed up in the straight, a LOT of weight (3750lbs), and it was 100% stock (stock pads, stock fluid, stock rotors). It’s hard to get good brake advice over on the GTO forums, because most of them are only about going fast in a straight line. You tell them you overheated the stock brakes and they look at you like you’re crazy. 