The “madness”, in this case, comes in the shape of a 2002 Porsche 911 GT2.  In stock form, this car gets from 0-60 in 3.8 seconds, tops out at 196mph and, in the hands of Walter Röhrl, can lap the Nürburgring in 07’42”.  The pictured car isn’t stock and is, therefore, even more ridiculous.  However, the point of this article revloves less around "going" and rather more around "stopping".  Obviously,  car with such cataclysmic acceleration has to perform comparably when it comes time to slow from triple digits down to a more modest velocity for a corner.  Enter PCCB, which abbreviates “Porsche Carbon Ceramic Brakes”. 

 

Most cars come with iron brake rotors and even sports cars usually only have four-piston calipers on the front brakes (which see the roughest use during braking due to weight transfer…insert complicated physics here).  The carbon ceramic material weighs less, dissipates heat more efficiently, and works at a wider temperature range than the iron.  In addition the GT2 sports rather massive 6 piston calipers.  The only way to stop the car quicker would involve a drag chute and a brick wall…in combination.  I would also postulate that the driver could, with some determination, deliberately eject an un-belted passenger through the windshield via the middle pedal if traveling at sufficient initial velocity.

 

For a more visual reference, I direct your attention to the exhibits below.  In “A”, a wheel from my MR2 Turbo sits in the background; it’s 14” in diameter.  In the foreground, I’m holding the brake rotor from the 911 GT2.  Wrap your head around that for a second...so I can mess with you again. That rotor in the picture, it's one of the smaller rear brake rotors, the fronts are a bit larger.  In the latter, just to show that I wasn’t messing with visual perspective is the rotor sitting directly on top of the same wheel. 

 

Respect the brakes.  Stop the madness.