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Originally Posted by ZL1Kraut
I'm thinking the flagger was full of shit and if anything saw some sparks from further bedding. The only way I would know differently is if I had a GoPro pointed at my wheels.
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They were probably legit flames, not just sparks. It's just that it doesn't mean there's a problem. They'll go out as soon as you let off the pedal and keep rolling. Check out
this video of a guy bedding in his brakes. You see literal flames. He makes the mistake of full stopping at the end of his last braking event, whereas he should have kept on rolling and gotten off the brakes and let them cool a bit first. But in any case, before that last one you see flames that go out as soon as he gets off the brakes again. No big deal.
The two big problems with brakes on a track are if you exceed the temp where the pads have their best friction, and if you boil the fluid. The latter is obvious and you get a soft pedal. With the former, if you keep driving all-out you'll keep needing more and more pedal pressure to slow down, which just compounds the overheating problem and you eventually lose braking effectively. But the point here is not to worry about what they look like, but rather pay attention to how they feel.