F1brakes

This is what F1 brakes look like on the car without the wheel attached. Any questions? The housing around the brake is the air cooling system. There is a scoop on the inside that forces the air as the car is moving into the middle of the brake assembly and flows out through the holes on the brake rotor cooling it off as quick as possible. When in the pit, blowers are connected to the scoops to flow air through. They only use them until the brake assembly reaches temperatures cool enough to work on after the car has been running on the track during qualifying runs. The white material is heat shielding made from alumina or zirconia ceramic fibers. Many use a special high temperature coating on a fiber substrate giving the insulators more rigidity. I have seen many different designs all of which cannot survive long at the high temperatures produced by the energy being dissipated into the carbon-carbon composite friction material. The heat shields and brake rotors are generally replaced after every race. Some designs of heat shielding last longer than others. The actual brake rotor is between the 2 white pieces of insulation. The pads and caliper are to the left in the video or the rear side facing the center of the car. This is the front right brake assembly in the video.

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• formula 1
• F1
• brakes

[sb350allday]

everyone should google this stuff and get answers from a professional F1 tech if they wanna know more about things like this not read what mr joe shmo posted on it that can easily post anything on any video

[todpoli]

@sb350allday We at CAFS know the deepest perspective of F1 brakes and clutches. When the F1 techs have a problem with a material, they come to us to solve it. Redbull did pretty well this year because of this fact.

[todpoli]

@sb350allday No one person can claim to know all and we do not know everything about C/C materials, but we are the ONLY ones making C/C at a University and studying it deeply. If those of you out there want a good job in the C/C industry, come to school at SIUC and we can guarantee a job in the C/C world.

[tubedude2735]

It's a disc brake. What appears to be a drum is part of the duct used for cooling.

[todpoli]

@tubedude2735 This is correct...It is a disk brake made out of carbon-carbon. That's a carbon fiber preform filled in with pure carbon by the vapor deposition method or CVI (Carbon Vapor Infiltration). The rest is heat shielding since the temperature goes as high as 1400 C during a race. Then you have the air duct system to cool the brakes. Notice the holes on the outside edge of the disk.

[todpoli]

@tubedude2735 On the inside, it is similar to a turbo, at least that's what they tried to make it, but anyway, the air is rammed through ducts facing the front of the car and into the brake assembly then out through the holes. The disk looks very much like an ordinary automotive disk in shape, the material is what makes it special. Each of those disks cost $3000. 

[legacysage]

I think I understand everything about these brakes now...

I am under the belief that they were, at first, comprised of fluffy unicorns and everything cute. However, after having gone through many rigorous tempering techniques, it had melted the one weak and fluffy unicorns into demonic death machines that are industructible and can absorb a great deal of friction without wearing down with heat because they come from the deepest hellfires ever known. This tech is 15 years before it's time!

[saf768]

@96integra02 Its a brake disc

[VolkswagOwned]

@96integra02 It's a Disk brake..

[xxdevestatorxx]

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