# NYSpeed Track Day #1 - Friday June 15th, 2007

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**Category:** NYSpeed Automotive\
**Created:** [March 22, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyspeed-track-day-1-friday-june-15th-2007/26320 "2007-03-22T18:09:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 18, 2007, 8:20am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/nyspeed-track-day-1-friday-june-15th-2007/26320/457 "2007-06-18T08:20:50Z")

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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:

1. Go slower down the straight
2. Brake earlier
3. 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. 🙂

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