A round-up of the latest products and news stories from EBC Brakes this month
LATEST EBC NEWS
EBC Brakes Appoints New Sales Director
To handle the ever expanding demand from new and existing customers for its product range, EBC Brakes has appointed Martin Walder as its new Global Sales Director effect Monday 17th August 2026.
Martin has 20+ years of experience in customer facing positions at all business levels in engineering, and will be responsible for all the EBC Group’s customer base, globally.
- Martin will be based in the Northampton facility and can be contacted by clicking here.
EBC Brakes Enjoys Successful Gravity 2026 Show
The EBC Brakes and EBC Brakes Racing teams thoroughly enjoyed another instalment of the Gravity indoor car show recently, set at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Centre.
Acting as a headline sponsor for the second year running, the braking firm once again hosted a significant trade stand in the heart of the event, jam-packed full of components, merch and EBC-shod vehicles.
A huge thank-you to everyone who visited the EBC Brakes stand across the weekend.
You can next catch us at the epic SEMA show (3-6 November, Las Vegas Convention Centre) and the EICMA motorcycle expo (5-8 November, Milan Rho-Fiera).
SPONSORED RIDER/DRIVER UPDATE
Eric ‘Dewey’ DeWitt has been competing in Gridlife’s StreetMod category with his modified Subaru Impreza WRX for some time now. Utilising EBC Brakes Racing’s SR-21™ sintered endurance motorsport brake pads, DeWitt has enjoyed multiple front-row lockouts in the first half of the 2026 season, alongside fellow SR-21™ racer, Kal Fortner. We next caught up with DeWitt following his successful third and fourth rounds of the season, at Gingerman Raceway and Watkins Glen respectively – two more incredibly lucrative weekends that have already secured him 2026 class victory with a few rounds still to go.
13-year-old kart racer, Myles Burton, is currently competing in the Junior Rotax category for 2026. His latest outing took him to the acclaimed Kimbolton Festival at Hunts Kart Racing Club in Huntingdon, where he sustained top-10 results throughout the weekend, despite 42 entrants taking part.
Canadian road racer Dan Kruger has been using EBC Brakes Racing’s GPFAX track/race brake pad formula on his Kawasaki Ninja ZX-10R for his recent campaigns, in an ongoing relationship with EBC Brakes that has lasted over a decade. Sitting at the sharp end of the AMA/WERA Superbike/Superstock standings, Kruger recently entered the debutant six-hour N2RA Superbike race at Virginia International Raceway with the Team KYT Americas outfit, where he secured Superbike class victory alongside Brandon Cretu and Brian D’Apice.
The Gigglepin Racing team has been at the sharp end of various international off-road racing championships in recent years, being proudly supported by EBC Brakes throughout this time. With multiple championships wins under their belt, the latest outing for the Kent-based team was to reclaim Ultra 4 Europe’s ‘King of Britain’ trophy that saw a four-year hiatus until re-emerging in 2026 (with Gigglepin winning the previous round in 2021).
Retford-based Scott Stone is competing in No Limits Racing’s Pirelli Super Series 1000cc Power Trophy across 2026 on his Honda Fireblade, aiming to achieve solid results throughout the year. Following some great riding recently, we next caught up with Stone off the back of his Cadwell Park round, where he’d recently swapped out his Yamaha R1 for a Honda Fireblade and used the weekend to get used to the new machine.
Kal Fortner is competing in the 2026 season of Gridlife in the USA, using his Mercedes AMG GTS as weapon of choice. Following a podium finish at Grid Life Carolina and more podiums in Atlanta, we next caught up with Fortner off the back of his latest round at the iconic Watkins Glen in New York State, where he achieved another podium finish.
Tennessee-based pro drifter, Hooman Rahimi, is once again competing in the PROSPEC category of the prestigious Formula Drift series in the USA. With a mixed bag of luck in the previous round at Road Atlanta, we next caught up with Rahimi following his latest round at Connecticut, where he also shared info about the upcoming weekend at Indianapolis.
The NW Racing team is once again competing in the BSB Junior Sportbike category for the 2026 season, continuing to opt for EBC Brakes’ GPFAX brake pads and X-Series discs (front) and HH pads and Contour discs (rear) on their various motorcycles. We caught up with the team after their latest rounds at Snetterton And Brands Hatch, where they took home more big results.
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