When it comes to “Race on Sunday, sell on Monday”, it doesn’t come much more authentic in race support terms than the decades long pedigree that the Ferodo brand has been famous for.
A fixture at the historic circuits, series and championship battles of the past, Ferodo, and their ‘sister’ brand Champion, are racking up promising results again this year.
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| After posting two 4th place finishes at Phillip Island, Alex Lowes said: “The team have done a good job over the winter, and I’ve improved in some areas” |
Ferodo is official technical partner of the Crescent Racing Pata Yamaha Official World Superbike Team for 2017 and kicked off the season seeing former British Superbike Champion Alex Lowes finishing 4-4 on the Yamaha YZF R1 at the Phillip Island, Australia opener at the end of February, with his team mate Michael Van der Mark crossing the finish line 9-7.
At the time of writing the team were headed to Thailand for the second WSBK round of the year at the 4.5 km Chang International Circuit opened in 2014.
The Ferodo brake pads used by Lowes and Van der Mark are derived from the same XRAC ‘SinteredGrip’ pads that the Italian manufacturer sells for race applications through its dealers.
Rated “Excellent” for friction level, bite, fade resistance, durability and performance under wet braking conditions, XRAC pads by Ferodo “offer unparalleled braking performance and incorporate our innovative Array Cooling for 15% disc temperature reduction due to the radiative cooling effect the design generates”.
The “trickle down” for Ferodo and their dealers is in the race-gained experience that backs up their top of the line ‘SinterGrip’ ST, HH rated XRAC performance matching road bike and SG off-road sintered compound pads, which bring to the street and on/off road riding, with their equally durable and equally wet riding friendly SM maxi-scooter ‘SinterGrip’ pads specified for the heavy duty urban cycle, what modern day large displacement maxis have to endure.
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| Ferodo offers two race pads – the CP1 Ceramic Grip Compound is a carbon-based composites formula bound together with a ceramic resin – said to be ideal when caliper temperatures need to be minimised, offering “excellent modulation for superior feel and control” |
It doesn’t stop at the Pata Yamaha WSBK team though, with Champion being an official technical partner of Aprilia Racing in MotoGP (Aprilia Racing Team Gresini), WorldSBK (Aprilia Racing Shaun Muir Racing), SSTK (NUOVA M2 Racing); and Ferodo and Champion as official technical partners of Kallio Racing in the WorldSSP (Niki Tuuli & Sheridan Morais) and Renzo Ferreira & Kimi Patova in the Supersport 300 World Championship.
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