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Originally posted by: freegeeks
One of the guys pulled into the pits and the brakes were on fire. The Germans were like, [Schwarzenegger voice] "That is okay, that is normal, they will cool down."
The SLR is probably the more real-world, everyday driver car, [though] I commuted every day with the Carrera.
LOL
That's pretty funny, but it's not uncommon for brakes to catch fire under hard use.
Some toooner rag had an article on downhill racing in either an EVO or STI and the brakes caught fire but there was no damage to the brakes afterward.