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Brookes is an epic late braker.
In the BSB paddock, ex-champ Brookes is known for his demon late braking, and, if you excuse that little known skittling incident from many moons ago at Mallory Park, he’s highly regarded for being one of the smoothest anchormen on the scene, being able to not just slow a bike rapidly, but get it on its ear and into a bend with epic smoothness too. Cosied up for a chinwag with the Aussie superstar after he’d just broken the BSB lap record at Oulton Park, and taken the top spot in the timing sheets, I was gagging to know what made him the machine he is when it comes to performance braking. He kindly went through his technique, one step at a time.