Nice. Very nice
Damned right. I've even gone out and worked alongside 'em a little, draining fluids for example.
They don't really need help with that. They've got pumps for a lot of stuff. You don't even need to pump the brakes when you bleed 'em. They've got a special pump just for that. Damned thing is fancy, too - tells you not just when you have no more air but when you have pressure built up. It's so you can change 'em in a race - though usually these days they just change out the entire hub. It takes 10 to 15 minutes to change the whole hub on a GT3 car or prototype.
Cool. That's pretty quick, but I would think during a race they would get even quicker
That's about how long it takes in a race, 10 to 15 minutes. They just do the whole hub assembly with the brakes already filled to pressure. The other end of the brake line has a special shutoff - and there's reserve fluid to keep air out of the system. You see 'em changed sometimes in 24 hour races. You used to sometimes see it in shorter races, but brakes are pretty sturdy these days (when you spend 10k on each corner's worth of brakes).
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