On 5 October Brembo founder Alberto Bombassei will be 82 years old. The company set up together with his father Emilio and his brother Sergio is today a multinational giant, and when it comes to brakes it is probably the first name that comes to mind. Enough to deserve an exhibition, “The art of Braking” at the Mudec in Milan.
Brembo, between past and future, always tries to leave its mark. In this regard, Bombassei said thus, according to Corriere della Sera: “We have Greentive, a brake disc that lasts longer and emits less fine dust for the sake of the environment. While with Sensify artificial intelligence enters the braking system to reduce braking times and the digital signal replaces the hydraulic fluid. It will be a new revolution and will totally change the braking system. Behind there are ten years of research and many patents“.
All this future is based on a very long history: “The wheel was once covered enough to hide the brake, which was a bad thing to see. We have managed to make it a beautiful object, to show, without sacrificing safety, which comes first. Who would have thought that a brake deserved an installation in a museum! In the beginning, ours was a mechanical workshop. Then we started producing simple pieces, like door hinges, for the Innocenti and Alfa Romeo. In the 1960s, disc brakes were not very common and were all imported from England. When a truck loaded with Alfa Romeo discs overturned, Alfa asked us to check all the discs, to discard the damaged ones. When we saw them in our hands, it was clear that with our machinery we could produce those records too. My father proposed to Alfa to buy our records instead of importing them, Alfa put us to the test. The first records were the same as the English records, then we tried not only to diversify them, but to make them better. It was the winning choice at the base of the company, which has always believed in innovation, research and development“.
A development that has passed and continues to pass in the great races, in particular the Formula 1 where Brembo has tested and tested many solutions which are then transferred to production cars.
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