UK’s LARGEST SINGLE MAKE CHAMPIONSHIP RUNS ON MINTEX

At a time when many single make series are struggling for numbers its nice to report on a specialist manufacturer who sometimes has too many cars for the grid!! Sheffield based Ginetta has been making road racing sports cars for almost 50 years and regularly has 40 plus racers turning up for the Ginetta Challenge which leads to knock out rounds to get to the final grid. In 2005 the Ginetta Challenge is the UK’s biggest one make race series.

Cars in the Ginetta Challenge run on Mintex M1166 and M1155 pads with a few also on M1144; all made by TMD Friction Hartlepool and distributed by leading Mintex Racing distributor Questmead Ltd. These compounds provide an excellent brake at a cost effective price.

Mintex History

Over 75 years of motor sport success means that with Mintex you’re on the winning team

Mintex continues a long and successful association with high-level motorsport dating back to the 1920’s, when the winning Bentley’s at the famous British Brooklands oval circuit discovered the advantage Mintex brake linings could provide.

Later, in the 1950s and 60s, both Aston Martin and Jaguar won GT endurance events with Mintex brakes – including several of the famous 24 hour races at Le Mans.

Today race and rally teams around the world rely on the highly advanced Mintex F-series and M-series friction materials to give them a winning advantage at every corner of every circuit. There’s no better testimony to this than the fact that in 2003, Matt Kenseth won the NASCAR Winston Cup, a grueling Championship involving speeds well in excess of 200mph, using Mintex F-Series friction.

Also part of the TMD Friction group, Pagid is renown for high level motor sport friction products and especially the development of carbon-ceramic brakes. Initially designed for track use, Pagid is now supplying carbon-ceramic brakes to Porsche for its road cars.