Well, a bit late, but time for a wee update on the DS2500's following my second sprint and club afternoon at Curborough from a couple of weekends ago.
First thing to mention is that the brakes are as good as anything I have ever used, giving excellent feel and modulation in both wet and dry conditions as well as excellent initial bite (not too strong, but lets you know how to modulate from the initial pedal application). The brakes are more than capable of exceeding the capabilities of the (now thoroughly scrubbed in) Toyo Proxes T1-R's, although I would expect that from the basic brakes anyway. Sadly I cannot really comment on dust and fade as I simply have not put enough miles on the pads or hammered them on track, but considering the heavy breaking in proceedure and their use thus far, there is minimal wear and zero signs of cracking and glazing. The OEM spec 239mm discs are already showing signs of wear though..... The one thing I will qualify all of the above with is that I really have not had the opportunity to hammer the pads on a track (Curborough is only 75 seconds for me on a two lapper) but, having let a (cone bashing) friend who has never driven the car before, loose in the car for a few laps, he also felt that the brakes were rather good considering the age of the car. Shame his puny arms couldn't deal with no power steering......
I would recommend the pads themselves to anyone needing a fast road/occasional track pad and I shall be fitting them to next years car......
For anyone who is interested, the following is my fastest run at Curborough on the 12th:
http://youtu.be/ADcPnJy5Vh4 To put the time into perspective, this and my fastest timed run in the dry would have put me 0.2 secs behind an ABF equiped Ibiza cupra 16V that was running on my first event and there is time that I could still find if I wasn't swapping to the Clio for next year. Sadly I fear I will not be matching Nige's times any time soon in either of the track cars..
