Why Gateway is so hard on NASCAR Cup Series brakes

Motorsport photoThe Enjoy Illinois 300 was always going to play out like this.There were no shortage of brake issues on Sunday at World Wide Technology Raceway but there always is at tracks with long straights and heavy braking corners. That has been the case at Loudon, Nashville and Phoenix too since the Cup Series implemented the current generation car in 2022.The fact that this happened during the first race at Gateway with the new higher horsepower and lower downforce short track rules packa