Tyre pressures at Brands Hatch Grand Prix

The Brands Hatch Grand Prix loop, drawn bold on the venue's mapped tarmac; the loop's measured length agrees with the layout's published lap length. 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.

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.

Brands Hatch Grand Prix, on paper

OSM — the sections mappers have named on this venue's tarmac: Hawthorns Bend · McLaren · Clark Curve · Paddock Hill · Druids Bend · Cooper Straight · Graham Hill Bend · Surtees · Pilgrims Drop · Derek Minter Straight · Westfield Bend · Brabham Straight · Dingle Dell · Sheene Curve · Stirlings Bend · Rally Stage 1 · Hailwoods Hill · Hawthorn Hill · Dingle Dell Corner · Clearways · Rally Stage 2

Lengths are measured from the OpenStreetMap geometry drawn above, on the loop verified against this layout’s published lap length; the longest straight is derived from the same line and is approximate. Section names are the venue's, and can belong to any of its layouts.

What Brands Hatch Grand Prix asks of a tyre

Brands Hatch Grand Prix measures 3.89 km on the map, run clockwise, with 12 corners counted along that line, 8 of them right-handers. A corner every 324 m gives the tyre a steady rhythm of work, enough to build temperature without running away with it. With the corners weighted that way the left-hand tyres do the work and barely rest: expect them hotter and higher in pressure than the right, and read the two sides separately rather than as an axle.

DERIVED — length, corner count, hands and straight measured from the mapped lap drawn above. Corner counting is a judgement (a double apex can be read as one corner or two), so treat these as this line's reading of the circuit, not a series' official figures.

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.

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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