new design of brakes... but years ago?!

[Piggy]

see video...


https://youtu.be/VTFX1wTA7AU?t=10m55s


clearly an old video...wonder why they never went into full production or even into motor racing!?

[bashbarnard]

Vid not working for me man.

[welshpug]

works fine here.

[Piggy]

Vid not working for me man.

It's cos you're in cornwall

[highwayman306]

Expensive... wouldnt be easy to mass produce either, there is wayyy too much time/engineering involved

Surely you can't improve on perfection, i think they were looking too far into something there. The idea is nice but they went to town on the development :o
Wouldn't 6pot, ceramic disc, brembos be better stoppers with (i dunno really) a decent intelligent ABS system?

[Redordead89]

It all goes wrong eventually being friction parts and I wouldnt fancy the replacement cost either, and with composite bodies on racing cars becoming lighter and more common these days there's no need to revolutionise a braking system that works, just tweak the components to suit as above!

[tigerstyle]

Kers is the answer, not pointless big brakes

[John1.4]

i heard about these aaaages ago, price was a big factor, and the fact that they were fiddly, overly complicated compared to normal calipers and discs, F1 had looked at similar ideas, like having 2 calipers per wheel, one leading and one trailing, but again, complicated and pointless once better carbon ceramic materials came in

[Rippthrough]

Too heavy when you try to get the required stiffness out of them, and often the pad interface temperature isn't an issue until the bulk temperatures are high, and as it doesn't help shed heat from the discs, so it's not going to help with that.

Also, because of the guides under the hub, you can't have the wheels inset as much, so you compromise your suspension for a given track width.