Near Death Experience, Brake failure at over 100 Options

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So here I am, driving the Chalon in a short stint with an Elise on the 73 freeway, those are pretty fast little cars first off, I did beat him but then went to exit the freeway and there is K railing down the ramp and I hear this strange noise coming from my car, I kept slowing down to about probably 70 or so still just using the gears, the light is red at the end of the ramp so I go to hit the brakes and they go way down, still not quite in panic, I do a quick pump up and it still isnt stopping, instead I hear this terrible grinding sound. Now I start to panic as there are cars ahead of me and the car is not stopping as it should, I downshift into second and let the clutch out still pumping the brakes and the car grinds to a stop just short of the cars in front. My heart is going about as fast as I was on the freeway and I think "Shit, well, I am only a block or so from the house, I will just not use the brakes the rest of the way" So I go really slow to my house and pull in the driveway. My heart is still beating pretty fast and as soon as it calms down, I will go see what the hell went wrong. I hope none of you ever have to experience what I just did. I will cut your life by 10 years and make your hair turn gray. The Chalon is down till I figure this out. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/confused24.gif)