Frictional pairing in motor vehicles, including a carbon-ceramic brake
disk or a grey cast iron brake disk and a brake pad for the brake caliper
of the parking brake, characterised in that the brake pad comprises a
fiber-reinforced ceramic composite material, which has a matrix with
phases of silicon carbide and reinforcement fibers of carbon, graphite,
silicon carbide or whiskers of high-melting metals with a melting
temperature of over 1500.degree. C., and a parking brake comprising these
material.