Tyre pressures at Donington Park GP
The venue as mapped, to scale. Donington Park GP 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 Donington Park GP 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 | +2.0 |
| Right front | +1.5 |
| Left rear | +3.0 |
| Right rear | +2.5 |
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 Donington Park GP asks of a tyre
Donington rewards momentum: the plunge through the Craner Curves and Old Hairpin is one of the great high-load sequences in UK track driving, working the outside of the car hard while the lap's rhythm keeps tread temperature up. The GP loop adds the Melbourne hairpin and a second heavy braking zone, so fronts get a workout the National layout spares them.
The Craner sequence builds shoulder temperature fast; check outer zones with the pyrometer
Two big stops on the GP loop push front pressures up through a session
A flowing lap means pressures come up quickly even on cool mornings
A 992 GT3 on Cup 2 R at Donington Park GP
Published hot target 30.5 / 32.0 psi at 92°C tread, on a 15°C morning, with the corner figures above: cold set 21.5 / 21.5 front, 22.6 / 22.6 rear. A different car, tyre or morning moves every number, which is what the calculator is for.
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