NightmareMoon
Well-Known Member
1) is a big fat no, it won't perform better on the street than an R10 setup after you've glazed your one GS1 pad on a previous track session, which ruins the braking force from them. The only way to recover the braking performance from a badly glazed GS1 pad is to remove it and sand the glazing off of it (hopefully while keeping the surface flat). Its a PITA. The R10 are probably fine on the street. I street R12 fronts these days (most of the time) and noise/dust is a much bigger issue than cold braking force, which really only affects the first stop in a drive.i respect and appreciate the input from the above members. certainly with brakes, caution is of paramount importance. however, i think my point is best illustrated with 2 simple questions:
1)would a gs1/r10 combo have better braking than an an r10 only setup on the street?
2)would a gs1/r10 combo have better braking than a gs1 only setup on track?
i think the answer to both would probably be āyesā
2) GS1 are not recommended by GLOC for the track, so you're going against their explicit instructions and basically asking if running one track pad is better than no track pads, and the answer is that you need two track pads to be safe. One terrible thing can be better than another terrible thing and they can still both be terrible. The R10 would work ok, while the GS1 pad performance drops significantly on the track, so if you try to run very hard, you're basically relying on one pad to not fail. Not very safe.
I'll change your #2 question slightly and say that its worst than stock brembo pads on the track, which do pretty well. The GS1 glaze pretty easily by comparison.
You're over simplifying and at this point, just call the engineers at GLOC and see what they tell you.
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