Tyre pressures at Nürburgring GP
The Nürburgring GP 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 Nürburgring 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.
Nürburgring GP, on paper
| Location | Nürburg, Landkreis Ahrweiler, Germany | OSM |
| Lap as mapped | 5.148 km | MEASURED |
| Longest straight | ≈719 m | DERIVED |
OSM — the sections mappers have named on this venue's tarmac: Anbindung zur Nordschleife · Anbindung zum GP Kurs · Nürburgring Sprintstrecke · Boxengasse · Boxengasse an T13 · Variante 24h-Rennen · Müllenbachschleife · Nürburgring Nordschleife · T13 · Quiddelbacher Höhe · Antoniusbuche · Exmühle · Karussell · Hohe Acht · Breidscheid · Senkenlinks · Döttinger Höhe · Tiergarten · Hohenrain · Hatzenbach · Hocheichen · Flugplatz · Schwedenkreuz · Aremberg · Fuchsröhre · Adenauer Forst · Metzgesfeld · Kallenhard · Spiegelkurve · Dreifach-Rechts
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 Nürburgring GP asks of a tyre
The Nürburgring Grand Prix circuit is a modern, wide, technical lap in the Eifel hills: heavy braking into the first complex, a proper hairpin, and quick direction changes in the middle sector. Eifel weather keeps ambient temperatures modest and famously changeable, so the day's pressures rarely survive unadjusted.
Cool, damp-prone climate: temperature building comes first
The heavy stops work the fronts; the flowing middle sector works the shoulders
Recompute for ambient swings; the Eifel rarely holds one temperature all day
A 992 GT3 on Cup 2 R at Nürburgring 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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