Tyre pressures at Monza GP
The lap, to scale. 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 Monza 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.
Monza GP, on paper
| Location | Monza, Monza and Brianza, Italy | OSM |
| Lap as mapped | 6.058 km | MEASURED |
| Longest straight | ≈1189 m | DERIVED |
OSM — the sections mappers have named on this venue's tarmac: Rettifilo di partenza · Sopraelevata Nord · Sopraelevata Sud · Raccordo Junior · Autodromo nazionale di Monza - anello alta velocità · Tondo · Variante del Rettifilo · Curva Biassono · Curva Vialone · Curva del Serraglio · Lesmo 1 · Lesmo 2 · Curva Alboreto · Variante Ascari · Variante della Roggia · Rettilineo anello alta velocità
Lengths are measured from the OpenStreetMap geometry drawn above; 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 Monza GP asks of a tyre
Monza is straights and chicanes: the tyres spend much of the lap cooling at very high speed, then get hammered by the biggest braking events in circuit driving and ride the chicane kerbs hard. The Parabolica and the two Lesmos supply the only sustained lateral work. Fronts live on braking; sidewalls live on kerbs.
Enormous braking zones heat fronts despite the cooling straights
Chicane kerb strikes punish inner shoulders and demand sensible pressures
Tread cools on the straights: hot checks read lower than the braking zones feel
A 992 GT3 on Cup 2 R at Monza 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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