Well I've just got to jump in here now.
If you take the proper care in warming up the stock brakes, they are fade free and bulletproof no matter how long you run. I currently run stock rotors and calipers with Dali pads, Castrol SRF fluid, stainless lines, no splash guards and Dali air deflectors.
High temp fluid helps, but if you over brake and "shock" the brake rotors and pads of ANY manufacture, they will expand non-uniformly, laminate, melt (stock pads) but they won't stop your car they way you would like.
During my warm up lap, I drag the brakes lightly (just so you can feel it and have to add a touch of gas to maintain speed) for 10-15 seconds at a time, a few times in a row. This lets everything heat up uniformly and slowly (compared to just bombing them late in every corner).
After your session, cooling the brakes is just as important. The cool down lap (or track exit in most cases) is not long enough to allow the rotors and pads to cool fully or evenly before the next round - so the problem just gets worse. I normally drive around the pits or go out on the roads around the track for a mile or two without using the brakes at all to do the job right. Its amazing how well this works.
I gave this info to a few stock brake equipped drivers at NSXPO and they all told me it worked great, not even like the same car.
I have run a lot of hard laps, and my brakes have never been anything but good. I did over brake in the first corner at Road America (before warming them up) and got some rotor chatter, but they still worked fine with no fade.
Everyone has a different driving style. Some late-braking pedal-mashers will always have "inadequate" brakes. I for one believe that doing something correctly and doing it the way you think it should work are two different things.
-ed
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