Tyre pressures at Brands Hatch Grand Prix
The venue as mapped, to scale. Brands Hatch Grand Prix is one of 2 layouts sharing this tarmac, and its exact course differs from the full-circuit outline shown. Track outline © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
How hard a circuit works each corner of the car shows up as tread temperature, and temperature is what sets pressure. GripCalc carries corner heating figures for Brands Hatch Grand Prix as a starting point: how much hotter each tyre runs over the session's base temperature, from the layout's mix of corners and load. They pre-fill the calculator when you pick the circuit, and your own pyrometer readings refine them from the first session.
| CORNER | RUNS HOTTER BY, °C |
|---|---|
| Left front | +2.5 |
| Right front | +1.5 |
| Left rear | +3.5 |
| Right rear | +2.0 |
ESTIMATED — class-based starting values over an 85°C session base, derived from this layout's type (direction, speed profile, load), and shared with circuits of similar character rather than measured here. Not gospel: enter your own pyrometer figures after a session and they take precedence.
What Brands Hatch Grand Prix asks of a tyre
The Grand Prix loop dives into the woods after Surtees and adds the fast, cambered country section: Hawthorns, Westfield, Sheene and Stirlings. It is a clockwise lap dominated by right-handers, so the left side of the car carries most of the load, and the old-school surface and gradients keep the tyres constantly working.
Left side runs hotter nearly everywhere; the sheet's split reflects it
Paddock Hill's compression spikes load on the left front
Gradient and camber changes mean readings vary more corner to corner than at flat circuits
A 992 GT3 on Cup 2 R at Brands Hatch Grand Prix
Published hot target 30.5 / 32.0 psi at 92°C tread, on a 15°C morning, with the corner figures above: cold set 21.4 / 21.5 front, 22.5 / 22.7 rear. A different car, tyre or morning moves every number, which is what the calculator is for.
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