Here are a few good pictures taken by James Boone of the Ferrari F458 Grand Am. The car is supposed to be very fast, and easy to drive. The only one test car is owned by Ferrari of Fort Lauderdale. The car currently has Endless as part of the brake package....We shall see how it turns out.

For 2011, Manthey Racing's Porsche 997 RSR won the grueling 24 hours at Nurburgring using Endless brake pads and fluid. A true testament to the durability and life of Endless brake products. Congratulations to team Manthey Racing!

Phoenix Racing's Audi R8 LMS finished 3rd overall using Endless brake pads as well.





Photo Credit: Official Nurburgring 24 Website.

My friend John Renna is getting ready for the 2011 Track season and decided to upgrade his wheels and brake package. The Hawk pads were replaced with Endless ME22 race compound pads in the front, and Endless NS97 rear pads to give an optimum friction split front to rear. Rotors were replaced with brand new blacks and fluid was replaced with Endless RF650 high temperature fluid. The OEM wheels were replaced with specially powdercoated (textured gunmetal) Weds SA60M (18 x 9/18 x 10) wheels. The brakes were much improved in all ways (bite, modulation, and life). More improvements will come soon....













Photos by John Renna

For the 2011 VLN Races, powerful factory Porsche team Manthey Racing will be using Endless brake pads and fluid. The 24 hours at Nurburgring (Which Manthey Racing won in 2008 and 2009), is one of the most grueling endurance sportscar races in the world. In 2010 over 65 cars used Endless as part of their brake packages for the 24 hours at Nurburgring. Official Endless logos are found on all 4 bumper corners of the Manthey Porsche.

Pro Driver Leh Keen, along with Top Speed Motorsports in Georgia decided to build an R35 GT-R for the 2011 1 lap of America. Endless decided to get involved supplying racing brake pads and RF-650 Fluid for the car to match the AP Racing J-Hook OEM Replacement Disks and Stock R35 GT-R Calipers. The car looks mean, and will be very fast.

Official Link: topspeedsales.com/blog/

One of our Porsche customers used Endless ME20 pads with his Porsche PCCB Brake setup on the 997 GT3 RS. It worked out well, and the braking was much better than anything that he had used before.

The 2011 ALMS Season, along with the Intercontinental Le-Mans Cup (ILMC) will be most challenging with a lot of stiff competition in LMP, GT and GT-C classes. The ILMC is a series that involves several endurance races from all over the world. The 12 hours of Sebring and 10 hours of Petit Le-Mans will be part of the ILMC as well the 24 of Le-Mans.  Every manufacturer will be making their platform better. Ferrari/Michelloto will bring their F458 GT2 test car as well the ESM Racing F458 GT2. Corvette Racing will test their 2011 C6.R platform, and Porsche GT2 and GT-C Class cars will test as well. Naturally, I and a few Endless Brake US and Japan staff went to support our teams and be involved in the testing of several new things.

Sebring Test Day 1:





Ferrari Test Car making the rounds, supported by Risi Competizione crew.



Testing Endless Brake pads and several Brake equipment options.


1 of 2 ESM Racing F458s that were dialing in settings.  



Checking Brake rotor and caliper temperatures using a probe tester. The ESM cars have Endless brake pads as well.



Team CRS with their F430 GT2 from the UK doing testing for ILMC work. This team will only come for the 12 hours of Sebring and Petit Le-Mans.



GMG Racing testing their 2010 Porsche Cup car and logging miles on the brakes to double-check pad wear.



Logging Temperature data on the brake disk and calipers. PMNA (Porsche Motorsports NA ) has decided to go the way of a spec brake package from 1 manufacturer for the 2011 ALMS GT-C Class except for the 12 hours of Sebring. The need to keep costs low and keep racing fair for the GT-C Challenge class is understandable, but I believe teams should be allowed to choose their options.



Corvette Racing logging miles on both the 3 and 4 Cars.



3 Car coming into the Pits



European Corvette Team, "Labre Racing" testing their C6.R for the 12 hours of Sebring (ILMC Series), with the help of Pratt & Miller Engineering.





Krohn Racing's F430 GT in their garage. Krohn Racing is a US based team competing strictly in the ILMC Endurance race cup.









Michelloto/Risi test car being cleaned and getting put away after a long day of testing which had it's ups and downs.

Sebring Test Day 2:











Early Morning testing by ESM Racing. Also testing F430 GT vs F458 GT as well.



Some testing on the Risi side of F430 GT and F458 GT as well.









A lot of intensive testing and data logging by various equipment suppliers, and the Krohn Racing team. This Ferrari was one of the fastest cars in the test session. Krohn has a lot of experience when it comes to building endurance racing cars.



Down pit road, and the rain about to roll in.







GMG Racing in the paddock with their 2010 Cup car. GMG Racing is one of Endless's close race teams, and partners for distribution of Porsche Endless products to club racers and end users.



Corvette Racing in the paddock.







Endless racing brake disks after over 1600 miles of race and test abuse. Testing is the most hard on disks as the temperature fluctuates up and down. Fading red thermo-paint shows the disks were seeing temperatures well over 600 degrees C on the rotor cheeks.



The Muscle Milk/Aston Martin Racing LMP1 car had to be one of the best sounding racecars at the test.

My friend took some awesome action shots of the cars at the test. More on that later.

For 2011, Ex-Honda F1/Brawn F1, now Mercedes GP with the legendary Michael Schumacher behind the wheel will continue to keep the partnership with Endless brakes. Endless RF650 brake fluid will be used for all testing, and race activities. The same fluid that is used in Formula 1 can be bought for street/track use.

Official Team Website: www.mercedes-gp.com/en/#/partner

 Helped a friend get these 17 x 9 + 44 Work CR-KAI wheels in Bronze for his FD Rx7. Heard this size will be discontinued soon....

More shots of what might end up being the Risi Competizione F458 GT2 in the 2011 ALMS Series. I really like the way this car turned out.