Tyre pressures at Donington Park National
The Donington Park National 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 Donington Park National 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 | +2.5 |
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.
Donington Park National, on paper
| Location | North West Leicestershire, Leicestershire, United Kingdom | OSM |
| Lap as mapped | 3.174 km | MEASURED |
| Longest straight | ≈621 m | DERIVED |
OSM — the sections mappers have named on this venue's tarmac: Roberts · Fogarty's · Wheatcroft Straight · Old Hairpin · Goddards · Redgate · McLeans · Coppice · Melbourne Loop (up) · Melbourne Hairpin · Starkey's Bridge · Hollywood · Craner Curves · Melbourne Loop (down)
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 Donington Park National asks of a tyre
The National layout keeps Donington's fast, flowing character and drops the Melbourne loop, so the lap is more relentless: less straight-line recovery time and near constant lateral load. Tread temperature builds and holds easily, which usually means starting from the conservative end of cold pressures rather than chasing warmth.
Little cooling-off per lap: expect hot checks to read higher than at stop-start circuits
The Craners load the right side hard on the way down
Watch the crown on hot afternoons; overshoot shows up mid-tread first
A 992 GT3 on Cup 2 R at Donington Park National
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 / 22.6 rear. A different car, tyre or morning moves every number, which is what the calculator is for.
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