STEEL or CERAMICS Brakes on new LP580/2

[TTBear]

I love the ceramics on my car, but I haven't pushed them hard or anything. I won't track it, so for street driving it's nice not to have the brake dust. A friend of mine with a 580 said that his steel brakes started fading pretty quickly on a spirited back road drive. He said they pretty much completely died on him.

I would be very surprised by this, but it's possible, I suppose. Like EVILR said, better pads on steel rotors for the track would be the way to go, I feel. The performance would be there, but when (not if, if one is tracking the car regularly) it comes times to replace brakes, you won't have to re-mortgage your house, haha.
I love my ceramics, too - the feel is FINALLY there (compared with ceramics on the Gallardo), and the lack of brake dust is fantastic. However, faced with tracking the car and thus eventually having to replace brakes.... yikes.

[reacher]

I would be very surprised by this, but it's possible, I suppose. Like EVILR said, better pads on steel rotors for the track would be the way to go, I feel. The performance would be there, but when (not if, if one is tracking the car regularly) it comes times to replace brakes, you won't have to re-mortgage your house, haha.
I love my ceramics, too - the feel is FINALLY there (compared with ceramics on the Gallardo), and the lack of brake dust is fantastic. However, faced with tracking the car and thus eventually having to replace brakes.... yikes.

Yeah I'm not sure about the Lambos but I've heard it's not a good idea to track Porsches with ceramics, they don't hold up and are extremely expensive to replace. For track use I would be way too paranoid to be running ceramics, but it sounds like the stock steel brakes need some updating if you're going to be pushing your car.