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I saw this on FB.

Ever wondered how £100,000 F1 brakes are made?
Here's what I discovered at Brembo factory...
200 mph to 60 in just 3 seconds.
That's what F1 brakes can do. Crazy, right?
But here's what I learned when I got rare access to Brembo factory in Italy:
Each F1 brake calliper starts as a solid block of aluminium lithium.
Not because it's necessarily the best material, but because F1 banned the exotic (and toxic) materials teams used to experiment with.
The manufacturing process is incredible:
-Every calliper is carved from a single piece of metal
-They machine away most of the original block
-6 titanium pistons go inside
-The final design looks like modern art
But the carbon discs?
That's where it gets interesting...
They start as what looks like a piece of thick felt.
Seriously. It's soft and fuzzy - nothing like the final product that glows red-hot during races.
The transformation process:
-Special needling (like textile manufacturing)
-Carbonisation in massive ovens
-Methane gas treatment
-1,200 precision-drilled cooling holes
-15 hours of machining. Per disc.
-Tolerances of 0.02mm (thinner than a human hair)
Total production time: 3 months
The precision is astronomical.
Every single component gets checked. Nothing leaves the factory without perfect QC.
And when they're on the car?
These brakes handle temperatures of 1000°C - the same as actual lava - while maintaining perfect performance lap after lap.