Tyre pressures at Silverstone Grand Prix
The venue as mapped, to scale. Silverstone Grand Prix is one of 3 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 Silverstone Grand Prix 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 | +1.5 |
| Right front | +1.0 |
| Left rear | +2.5 |
| Right rear | +2.0 |
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 Silverstone Grand Prix asks of a tyre
Silverstone's Grand Prix circuit is defined by fast, committed corners: Copse, the Maggotts and Becketts complex, Stowe. Sustained high-speed lateral load pumps energy into the tyres, while the long Hangar and Wellington straights give them time to shed a little of it again. The modern surface is smooth and consistent, so what you feel is mostly load, not texture.
The Becketts complex cycles the car left-right at speed; both fronts work hard
Long straights cool the tread between corner sets; hot checks straight off the circuit read truest
High minimum speeds mean pressures climb more than the ambient suggests
A 992 GT3 on Cup 2 R at Silverstone Grand Prix
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 / 21.6 front, 22.6 / 22.7 rear. A different car, tyre or morning moves every number, which is what the calculator is for.
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