Ferodo will be celebrating another year of race success at EICMA this year, with Brad Freeman (Costa Ligure Boano Team) having won the Enduro GP and Enduro 1 World Championships (and the Italian Championship) using technical partner Ferodo's brake pads and sister company Champion's spark plugs and oil filters.
With Matteo Pavoni taking second place in the youth series and first place in the Italian 125 cc Youth championship, Deny Philippaerts crowned Italian Champion 300 cc, and Beta Boano scooping the Enduro GP and Enduro 1 Manufacturer's Team World Championship, it was a pretty impressive year for the Ferodo backed racers.
A superbly well organised and well attended final round at the end of season French Enduro GP, with good crowds and competitive racing throughout the series, and with the backing of performance parts manufacturers such as Ferodo and Champion, the future is looking bright again for the Enduro class.
It has also been a busy year for Ferodo off the track, with more than 500 brake pad applications updated for 2019 models. The Ferodo brand objective is to deliver a "Balanced Braking Performance" – a four-stage concept that calibrates the initial bite, the resulting deceleration, the modulation (feel and control) that the rider has going into a corner under braking, and the point at which the brake can be released after the apex of a corner.
"A track-derived concept that is just as valid when testing a street bike pad," says International Sales Manager John Davies. "Our requirements for a high-performance friction material are based on a braking cycle with three main phases - the bite, the deceleration and the feel - the objective always being to allow the rider to achieve consistent braking and feel regardless of the operating conditions."
The result is a 'Good', 'Better' and 'Best' programme, with distributors and their dealers able to select from an organic 'Carbon Grip' compound line for motorcycles and scooters (carbon steel composites manufactured using a unique, proprietary process) and an OE replacement 'Sinter Grip' powder metallurgy based line (pressed metal powders are fused together at extreme temperatures).
At the top of the range are the company's race-proven, race-only 'Ceramic Grip' compounds – "pads that place a premium on maximum possible caliper temperature reduction and class-leading modulation for the kind of feel and control that can make all the difference on the racetrack".
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