The R8 V10's conventional brakes brought the car to a stop quicker than the LFA's ceramic carbon brakes. However, in the behind the scenes footage, it was shown the LFA's carbon brakes meant for hardcore track usage were not warmed up properly, which is essential for carbon brakes to perform at their best. In the successive run, the R8 V10's brakes suffered massive brake fade increasing the distance 17 feet while LFA carbon brakes were consistently getting better braking shorter in every successive run. In every sprint shown in the behind the scenes footage, LFA out-launched and out-accelerated the R8 V10. In the top speed, rolling start run on the runway, LFA hit a speed of while the R8 V10 hit a speed of . Tanner Foust explained there was no way to retract the LFA wing spoiler (deploys automatically at ) at high speeds increasing drag substantially, which had cost him .