Club-level circuit performance without burning through your budget between sessions.
Cheap pads fade under heat and wear unevenly across a day of hard lapping. The W5 compound uses a high-steel formulation developed for circuit and rally conditions — consistent bite lap after lap, and pad life that won't have you binning a set after a Bathurst club day. No full race compound price tag either. If you're chasing tenths on a real-world budget, it's the obvious move.
WinmaX call W5 their standard circuit model, and it is the compound most Australian club racing runs on. It asks for around 100°C before it is at its best, so it is a full-session race pad rather than a road one, and holds friction to 750°C. If you are choosing one compound for a club race weekend and nothing else is known, this is the sensible starting point.
These are the compounds we stock for the Hyundai Excel X3 front (vehicle shape) whose published friction and operating temperature come closest to WinmaX W5. They are a starting point for switching brands — not a guarantee of identical feel, because each manufacturer measures friction on their own equipment.
Project Mu N+
Very closeMore friction than N1 across the same temperature window.
Matched on published friction and operating temperature.
From $299 · in stockProject Mu H21
Partial matchCircuit and endurance racing. Project Mu rate it as kind to the rotor with long pad life.
Matched on published operating temperature only — one of the two brands doesn’t publish a friction figure, so this is a weaker comparison.
“The bite is there from the first stop, and it stays there.”
Project Mu H20
CloseA sprint and flying-lap compound used in GT and NASCAR classes.
Matched on published friction and operating temperature.
From $525