Eddie Lawson, the first champion with the Brembo radial master cylinder
Anderstorp, August 10, 1986. On the Swedish track, the penultimate GP of the 500 World Championship takes place. Riding the Yamaha of the Agostini team, Eddie Lawson wins the race and is mathematically crowned world champion.
Compared to rival bikes, his YZR500 is characterized by the presence of the Brembo radial pump, an unprecedented novelty, which maximizes the transmission of force between the action of the hand on the lever and the piston that pressurizes the fluid, without losses due to the decomposition of forces.
This world title is the first trumpet blast of an innovative Brembo solution, which, by improving performance and ensuring great linearity of response, will become a standard not only in competitions but also for millions of road bikes.
Brembo First Victory in F1, with Niki Lauda
Monte Carlo, May 11, 1975. On the streets of the Principality, Niki Lauda's Ferrari 312T starts from pole position equipped with Brembo brakes and wins the first race of that season.
Great is the joy of Scuderia Ferrari, which had not won the Monaco GP since 1955, and for Brembo, which had debuted in Formula 1 just 4 months earlier. It is the first GP won by a single-seater equipped with Brembo brakes.
What they cannot imagine is that from that victory begins the race that will lead Lauda to win his first drivers' title, Ferrari to win the constructors' title, which had been missing for almost 10 years, and Brembo to win its first world title in motorsport. The first of a long series.
500/MotoGP first victory
Nurburgring, August 20, 1978
The legendary Nordschleife, at the time 22.8 km long and featured with a succession of 73 corners, served as the stage for the last GP of the 500-class season.
The winner was Virginio Ferrari riding the Suzuki RG500 of the Gallina team, a private team that was the first to believe in Brembo's potential even in two-wheel competitions.
The winner's bike, in fact, was equipped with a complete braking system consisting of Brembo calipers, discs, and master cylinders. For Virginio Ferrari, it was the first of only two victories obtained in the 500 class.
For Brembo, it marked the beginning of a series that, between 500 and MotoGP, has reached 592 GP wins.
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