Endless Brake Technology Europe
Endless Brake Technology Europe is a Swedish-based company that provides brakes and brake fluid for the motorsport industry. The company mainly operates from the Swedish town of Västerås.
History
In 1986 Isao Hanazato founded Endless Advance.[1] In 1999, Endless Advance turned into Endless Brake Technology Europe. It has been a market leader in Europe for advanced motorsport brake technologies.
During the 1987 season, Endless newly developed pads made their racing debut in the Japanese F3000 championship at Suzuka. This first outing was a great success and within a year Endless had acquired 70% of the brake pad market in Japanese circuit racing, winning championships in both F3000 and group C sports car racing. Based in Saku-City outside of Nagano where all manufacturing and development takes place, Endless has since had great success in all racing classes in Japan and throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
From 1996 and on Endless has also been involved in the European competition scene supplying brake pads to several of the major teams in BTCC, and being part of the championship wins with Volvo and Ford in 1998 and 2000 respectively. The World Rally Championship is also part of the Endless arena for competition, originally in FIA Allstars, and thereafter supplying both equipment and technical development assistance to several teams in WRC as well as to both factory and private teams in PWRC and JWRC, SWRC achieving great success in co-operation with amongst other Ford Motorsport, Mitsubishi Ralliart, WTCC, GT Racing, Subaru STI and many Touring Car Championships in Europe.
Endless has been involved in the Formula One circuit since 2003 when Honda used Endless brake fluid for their F1 Team. Endless would provide the Brawn GP Formula One motor sport team with its RF-650 competition brake fluid throughout the 2009 Formula One season.[2] And as of the 2010 Formula One season Endless is an official Team Supplier of brake fluid to the Mercedes GP Petronas Formula One Team.
During the 2011 Nûrburgring 24hour race the Top 5 cars used Endless pads.
Products
The products manufactured by Endless consists of: Brake Calipers, Brake pads, Brake fluid and Brake rotors.
National Dealers
Endless Brake Technology Europe has national dealers in the following European countries: Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Poland, France, Greece, Portugal, Spain, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, UK, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Estonia, Lithuania and Cyprus
External links
References
- ↑ http://www.endless-brake.info/history
- ↑ "Brawn continues partnership with Endless Advance". BrawnGP.com (Brawn GP). 2009-05-07. Retrieved 2009-05-07.