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Brake is a critical safety aspect of an automobile and hence its failsafe design is of prime importance. Modern vehicles, especially cars and SUVs, with high speed and high acceleration capacities require the braking system also to be equally robust and stable in all critical driving conditions. Typically, during braking, front brakes take up higher torque than rear brakes due to vehicle dynamics and associated load transfers. Generally, these are disc brakes using cast iron rotors. Rotor absorbs heat energy generated during braking and dissipates it into components in its vicinity and largely, into surrounding air. Due to stringent target of overall reduction in weight and cost of an automobile, rotors are fairly optimized on these aspects with a balance of needed braking performance. This optimization in weight of rotor limits the thermal absorption equally of rotor i.e heat dissipation.