In Sport, Performance Counts
In sport, performance counts. It applies to the engine and it also applies to the brakes. The new 718 models are therefore equipped with four-piston aluminium monobloc fixed calipers. On the new 718 Cayman, the brake calipers come with a black finish - red on the S model. Brake disc diameters are 330 mm at the front and 299 mm at the rear. To make them tougher yet lighter and enable a more rapid response - even under extreme loads - the brake calipers have an enclosed monobloc construction. The pedal travel is short and the biting point precise. The brake discs are crossdrilled and internally vented, which helps to provide improved wet braking and optimum cooling. Proven in motorsport, the Porsche Ceramic Composite Brake (PCCB) is available as an option. On the new 718 models, the cross-drilled ceramic brake discs of PCCB have a diameter of 350 mm at the front and rear - for even more formidable braking performance. PCCB features six-piston monobloc aluminium fixed brake calipers on the front axle and four-piston units at the rear - all painted in yellow - to provide braking forces that are considerably more powerful and, crucially, are exceptionally consistent. PCCB enables shorter braking distances in even the toughest road and race conditions. Safety under high-speed braking is also improved thanks to its excellent fading stability. Another advantage of PCCB is the extremely low weight of the ceramic brake discs, which are approximately 50 % lighter than standard discs of a similar design and size. This results in better roadholding and increased comfort, particularly on uneven roads, as well as greater agility and a further improvement in handling.
Apexes spring up like unwhacked moles, braking points shake you by the collar. It's one manic Mobius strip. Instructors prep us on the way to the cars, but the entire focus鈥攖o the point of shutting them out鈥攊s listening to what the car's suspension, steering, brakes and tires, and right pedal are saying. The SVR spits and snarls its way to life on the most brilliant ribbon of pavement of the day, from the first roll-out into a hot corner. Flicked into Dynamic mode and stability set to adult-level permissions, the SVR is ready to party. Wheelspin is one backing track, but the big shivers come from the SVR's custom exhaust. It cuts loose insane levels of overrun, a string of exhaust expletives whenever you back off the throttle. Goose it, and the SVR is happy to cut corners to the bone, dump its contact patch with the earth, and let loose a slide worthy of a rear-driver, if only for a moment. Its all-wheel-drive system is playful but not evil: it pulls everything back in line in concert with the P Zeros so long as they're able to keep a grip.
Still, those high-speed moments of oversteer come on fast and heavy through a corkscrew more dastardly than the one at Laguna Seca. The SVR can move power around front to back, and side to side in back, but it can't brew miracles. It's taught to exaggerate almost every driving gesture, so careful modulation of the throttle and the steering wheel gets drilled into you to shake off sloppy corner work. At first we're routed through a moose-test of a chicane, with a tease of Motorland's longest straight at its end. Two laps later, that bus stop is de-kinked, and the track opens for top-speed flirting. Drop out of a downhill bend, then pinball out of a left-hander, and it's pure temptation. Pin the throttle, and the SVR soars faster, and higher, than ever in an F-Type. For a moment, 175 mph shows up on the clock. What seems like hours later鈥攐r just a half-second鈥攊t's full-stomp braking. Stand on the low-travel, high-resistance pedal, let the carbon-ceramics file off speed, and the SVR judders lightly as you paddle down into second for a late, late hairpin. Do the run twice and it gets easier, but never normal. It's like base-jumping between Petronas towers. Whomever designed this track was sleeping with the devil.
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