Street cars purchased by consumers are made for long term casual normal use and are not normally stopping from high velocity to a much lower speed over and over.  While this occasionally occurs on the street if you slam on your brakes, you don’t normally do that over and over with the associated heat build up you see at the race track.

Track brake pad compounds have to be engineered to withstand the abuse of frequent hard braking, extremely hard braking and done under intense heat and pressure.  Track pads need to be engineered for the rapid and constant build up of heat along with rapid cooling.  This all is repeated lap after lap for hours.  The amount of abuse brake pads and the entire braking systems go through is simply astonishing.  To make it more complex, certain vehicles require more bite, torque, heat capacity, and a broader heat range than other vehicles.  This is why we offer 7 different types of track compounds.  There is also an element of weight to heat to pad application as well.