Juratek have once again teamed up with Team Oliver Racing, supplying brake discs and pads for the 2014 truck racing season.

This is one of the most unique forms of motorsport in the world. Despite their weight and size, trucks are incredibly agile and are even capable of rubber burning power slides, especially when blasting out of a hairpin.

Due to the size and weight of a modern two axle race truck all the manufactures involved today acquire the 1,200 bhp plus, performance from a thirteen litre maximum size six cylinder inline diesel turbo intercooled engine. This has a torque output of a staggering 5,000 newton metre with this power transmitted via a manual shift gearbox into a locked rear drive axle. With a minimum dry weight of 5500kgs (3,300kgs on the front axle and 2,200kgs on the rear axle) this is enough to propel these machines from a standing start up to 60mph quicker than a Porsche 911. The regulations only allow a maximum speed on track of 100mph which is controlled strictly by way of a sophisticated GPS tracking system. However, these heavyweights still take some stopping.

To slow a 5,500kgs truck from 100 mph in racing style, at nearly every corner of a race track consistently on every lap during a 20 minute long race the air brake system and brake components have to be of the highest standard. To keep the performance over a full race duration each brake disc is internally sprayed with a fine mist of water to help to dissipate the enormous heat generation. One of the most common reasons for a truck retiring or crashing during a race is generally due to brake component failure.

Juratek has been a sponsor and the preferred brake component supplier of Team Oliver Racing for a number of years. Stuart Oliver says the superior performance and stopping power of the brakes supplied by Juratek, gives him a great advantage, when entering a corner, with the ability to stop the truck later, sometimes by up to two truck lengths.