Tyre pressures at Red Bull Ring

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 Red Bull Ring 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.

Red Bull Ring, on paper

OSM — the sections mappers have named on this venue's tarmac: Boxenstraße · Remus · Schlossgold · Rauch · Niki Lauda Kurve · Würth Kurve · Rindt · Red Bull Mobile · MotoGP Long Lap Penalty · Moto GP chicane

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 Red Bull Ring asks of a tyre

The Red Bull Ring is short and vertical: three big climbs and descents, heavy braking into the uphill first and second corners, and quick right-handers through the final sector that load the left side. The lap is dominated by traction and braking events rather than sustained corners.

A 992 GT3 on Cup 2 R at Red Bull Ring

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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