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Originally Posted by JulianEdgar
Brake cooling has been part of road car wheel design for at least 50 years. For example, a textbook I have on brake design that was published in 1967 mentions it.
In a current context, a recent Porsche paper I was reading on the development of an aerodynamically slippery wheel spends over half that section on the difficulties of developing an aero wheel that doesn't too adversely impact brake cooling. In fact, you can see exactly how much extra drag they accepted in order to achieve adequate brake cooling.
I think every reference (text or paper) that I read when writing the section in my book on wheel drag mentions the importance of brake cooling.
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i thought they had asbestos brake pads back then
I saw a set of pads that said "now without asbestos". that my grandpa had in the garage that was sitting there for ages..