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DS2500's are a fast road compound, I have them and quite like them but my car isn't a track toy. I chose the DS2500's because they don't squeak as much for daily driving, they have a rubber compound in quietens them down but makes them a bit melty on track. I would have swapped pads for track days to XP10's.

 

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I'd have a go at the PBS, as I found the DS2500 a little underwhelming. I gather that DS3000 are far better.

In the other car, I've been very happy with Pagid RS29s. A bit squeaky but I can live with that.

Its the same as the mintex m1144 vs the 1155 or M series, road / track - sprint / race.

People really need to think about how to build a brake set up for what they are doing.

Just fitting 'race' parts can be a bit tricky as well as a lot to racing requires a very different approach, sprint (1 min or so), hill climb (> 1 min), endurance (2-24 hours), club events (usually two or three x 20 mins in a day). Quite often series also have mandated brake sizing and compound restrictions that you won't find on a track day. e.g. you could bolt in a race compound, run cooling which isn't allowed in a series and make the pads too cold.

Quite often on a track day you can be out for longer than a race session, and in dirty air as well as driving with other drivers who don't know the lines so you end up riding your brakes or no putting enough temp in them as you would in door to door or on an open track in a sprint with no cars about.

 

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Buy. Decent. Discs.

Brembo, OE, DBA, Performance Friction, Carbotech, hell even EBC are ok as discs go.

I've got Brembos on mine and they have held up well.