Who needs brakes?

Yeah, Jeff really understated the brake issue from this morning.  Turns out our Endless brakes aren't quite "Endless" after all.  Pad fade was evident on the first lap (which was really the second lap, as I took the recon lap briskly since I know the track pretty well), and by turn 4 of the second lap, the pedal was rock hard... but there was little braking happening!  I adjusted and after reaching the point where the brakes did NOTHING for just a moment, I let them cool on the long straight coming up to turn 8 and they came back.  I drove the last half of that session at somewhat reduced speed and used the brakes a lot less and got through it... but my time suffered by about 15 seconds overall.

For the second session, as Jeff said, I dialed up the Balls setting on the driver control module so I could get by using less brakes.  That worked pretty well, though I did experience a little bit of fade at one point.  Haven't seen the times from the afternoon session, but I'm sure I did better than in the morning.

I think the problem stemmed from me being very familiar with the track and how to drive it... but in a faster car.  So, in the morning, I was braking harder and in more places than I really needed to in the Yaris.  Plus, Old Jeff's Sentra that I was used to had completely bulletproof brakes that would take anything I threw at them!

Just arrived at the BMW center.  Time to get my puppy on course!