Brake failure

I haven't found Hirochi being hard on brakes really, sure Burnside brakes will get cooked there, but others seem to fare better.

SBR4 is perhaps one of the few cars that don't cook the brakes.

My setups are made so that brake torque is just enough to lock wheels, that was how all top guys setup their brakes in sim racing as it gives you greatest amount of modulation and accuracy.

Road Atlanta and WCUSA are most challenging for brakes, hands down, speeds you reach at downhill braking zones are so great that your brakes will get to red zone.

With K-Series I have not had issues with brakes heating or at least I don't recall such and I'm running supercharger with nitrous, grippiest rubber there is etc.

 

I tested on "stock" cars. I didn't change anything. Maybe this is reason in difference.

Long straight on WCUSA is real saviour for brakes. We can reach here top speeds in any race car. Even if we get little red on first turn (I do it in ETK and Ibishu race cars), that straight is long enough to cool them. However if we'll race on layout that includes chicane, it can overcook brakes it very easy.

Hirochi Raceway have medium circuit where we have a lot of short straight with quite narrow turns so there isn't any place to cool brakes enough.

Difference between HR medium circuit and WCUSA is time. In HR we'll get hotter and hotter brakes each lap where on WCUSA we get hot brakes only on two corners. However I think it could change if there were modelled brake disc, drum and pads wear.