The Pagani Huayra BC Up Close

The front brakes are pretty amazing, they are these skeletonized Brembo six pistons in the front. Super light, cool running just dripping with trickness.  As you can see the air can circulate all around the bores all the way through to the pads.  That’s a good thing because carbon-ceramic rotors can run pretty hot.

The front carbon-ceramic rotors are 398mm x 36mm.  Here our Project GT-R one-ups the Pagani with bigger brakes.   However, the Pagani is 1000 lbs lighter so it probably doesn’t need as huge of a brake!

The rear brakes have a cored-out 4-piston Brembo caliper and a 380mm x 34mm carbon-ceramic rotor.  The brakes are smaller than our Project GT3RS and R35 GT-R but then again the Pagani is super light.

The aerodynamics on the Pagani are pretty mild, cars like the Ford GT have more sophisticated aero. The car has a flat bottom but so do cars like the GT-R and GT3. There are front diffusers that reduce the drag of the front tires and also create front downforce, the GT3 and GT-R have similar sized ones.  What is cool is the diffusers are stepped with a long and steeper inner section to take advantage of the additional room and better exit airflow to be more effective.  The fenders are vented on the top and back to keep the pressure differential higher between the wheelwells and bodywork and to activate the flow in the front diffusers.  Flow directors at the rear of the wheelwells help vent the wheelwell air.  That flow mixes with the flow from the turning vanes inboard of the front suspension to help keep the airflow along the sides of the car from curling under it.  This helps make the rear diffuser more effective.