Brembo became a major player in the endurance racing championship, then called World Sport Prototypes, in the mid-1980s. 
Those years were dominated by Porsche and more than half of the starting line-up was formed by a plethora of very competitive private team cars alongside the two official 962s. One was the British Lloyd team, which sealed an agreement with Brembo for the supply of braking systems in 1986. The heart of the system was a two-piece Brembo aluminium caliper, which echoed the shapes and concepts of the calipers used in Formula 1. 

The launch took place on the "brake-killing" 200 Miles of Norisring, where everyone had experienced problems with brake cooling the year before.
Baldi and Palmer's Porsche dominated the race without the slightest problem with the brakes. Word in the paddock spread fast and within six months all the Porsche 962s were fitted with Brembo brakes, which the Stuttgart automaker was already fitting on road cars.

The same choice was made by Toyota, Mazda, Spice and, from 1988, also by Sauber Mercedes for the C9, the car that brought the Silver Arrows back to motorsports. Sauber triumphed in the 1989 edition of the world's most famous race, allowing Brembo to win its first Le Mans 24 Hours. 

A few years passed and by the early 1990s all the most competitive cars, including Jaguar, Toyota, Mercedes and Peugeot, were fitting Brembo brakes creating a true talent hotbed. The chief of the French racing team was a man called Jean Todt. The Jaguar project manager was a man called Ross Brawn. And the star driver of the Mercedes team was a man called Schumacher.

There was something great in the air, but we didn't know it yet.