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ScottJ
Go back to the Girling discs on the original Cobras and racing cars of that era and a lot of your same arguments could be made.
You are correct about the manufacturing cycle time for Carbon/Carbon brakes that are the staple of F1, but the Carbon/Ceramic brakes on the Enzo are significantly different.
For the sake of accuracy, the quote from C&D in their July issue is: "Also, Rapp, 77, and his son, Robert, actually drive the car. Hard. Within a month of delivery Rapp’s Enzo showed 1200 miles on the odo, about half of which were accumulated on tracks. Rapp likes to believe his is the first customer-delivered Enzo in the world to burn through a set of $6000 carbon-ceramic brake pads and a $24,000 set of similarly constructed brake rotors. You just gotta love this guy."
It didn't say that he burned up the brakes in 1,200 miles. Rather that he put 1,200 miles on the car in the first month and that he is the first customer to go through a set of brakes. How long he had driven the car before the brake job is not stated anywhere in the article. The best indication that he is clocking more than 1.2K/mi per brake job is that he appears to be happy with the car and that the C&D writer wasn't very outraged.
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