Originally Posted by AfterThisNap
no, they dissipate heat much worse, they just dont eat carbon braking surfaces like a normal pad.
ZIPP makes a rubber pad for carbon rims, it's a little better, but let's face it, carbon resin is a pretty **itty braking surface to begin with. It can only get so good.
Yeah, right. From Wikipedia on F1 brakes:
Brakes
Brake discs on the Williams FW27.
Disc brakes consist of a rotor and caliper at each wheel. Expensive carbon-carbon (the same material used on the Space Shuttle) composite rotors - introduced by the Brabham team in 1976 - are used instead of steel or cast iron because of their superior frictional, thermal, and anti-warping properties, as well as significant weight savings.
You might want to search for airplane brakes as well.