Carbon Brakes - Health Risk?

[Milliethemutt]

Mika Salo has found out he has carbon fibre dust in his lungs during a recent operation.

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[ExigeEvan]

Put it like this, if drivers were being heavily afected by this then they wouldn't be able to keep to their strict exercise regimes.

 

[Appie]

Thats bad

 

[Flerbizky]

Don't lick your carbon fiber discs...

 

[Touring Mars]

Put it like this, if drivers were being heavily afected by this then they wouldn't be able to keep to their strict exercise regimes.

Maybe so, but the long term effects might be more severe... maybe it won't be anywhere near as bad as asbestos, but inhaling carbon fibre cannot be too clever..

 

[katana87]

Don't lick your carbon fiber discs...

never mind

IA

 

[katana87]

Should have taken a freaking picture of his lungs.

IA

 

[ExigeEvan]

Anyway, I thought they used Carbon-ceramic brake disks.

Maybe so, but the long term effects might be more severe... maybe it won't be anywhere near as bad as asbestos, but inhaling carbon fibre cannot be too clever..

But asbestos is a cancerous causing agent. Carbon fibre is more comparable to the tar found in smokers lungs, I would think.

The only changes they could make are adding finer filters to drives intakes on their helmets, something I'm sure there is already.

 

[Pebb]

What I want to know how it got in here right away I thought when breaking happens or the dust is killed of by the heat. When breaking happens the breaks and break pads go about 200c.

 

[ExigeEvan]

Well not saying day cars and F1 cars are very similair but very often you see dust from disks on the alloys/hubs of cars unless they are cleaned well. Especially larger cars (Like Minivans, MPV)

 

[katana87]

What I want to know how it got in here right away I thought when breaking happens or the dust is killed of by the heat. When breaking happens the breaks and break pads go about 200c.

Can't quite get what your saying, could you put in a few commas to maybe seperate it. Please

IA

 

[Scaff]

When breaking happens the breaks and break pads go about 200c.

Try between 700c - 900c for stock and racing pads (non carbon), hard and repeated braking is going to generate a lot more heat that 200c.

 

[Blake]

You can see the brake dust come out of the brakes when drivers brake at tracks like Bahrain.

Blake

 

[I6-4-eva]

Damn the wheels on my 3 series turn gunmetal after a week of daily driving. Maybe I should leave the windows up more often now...

 

[Pebb]

Can't quite get what your saying, could you put in a few commas to maybe seperate it. Please

IA

Sorry if I typed fast had a busy day.