Our #1 Hawk Performance pick
Top-ranked Brake Pads in our Hawk Performance lineup, scored independently on effectiveness, health, and environmental impact. No paid placements.
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Hawk Performance built its reputation supplying brake pads to top-level motorsports — the SCCA, National Auto Sport Association, and Stadium Super Trucks — and has parlayed that track record into a consumer line covering pads, rotors, and brake fluid for street and performance use. Every product carries the brand's friction-science background, which is unusual for a company entering the brake fluid market where most players are chemical formulators rather than friction specialists.
Hawk is owned by Carlisle Brake & Friction (CBF), a division of CentroMotion. The brake fluid line is a newer expansion; for decades the brand was exclusively pads and rotors. The HP520 DOT 4 is the single brake fluid product in the lineup, positioned as an above-OE-spec street fluid with a high dry boiling point.
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