Tyre pressures at Hungaroring
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 Hungaroring 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 | +3.0 |
| Right front | +2.5 |
| Left rear | +4.0 |
| Right rear | +3.5 |
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.
What Hungaroring asks of a tyre
The Hungaroring is tight, twisty and often hot: a lap of near-constant steering where front tyres carry the workload and there is little straight-line rest. In summer heat the challenge is keeping the fronts inside the window, not reaching it, and the crown of the tread tells the pressure story quickly.
Fronts run hot from steering work; compare front zone averages carefully
Summer track temperatures push everything up; start conservative and bleed
Little cooling per lap: pressures stabilise high
A 992 GT3 on Cup 2 R at Hungaroring
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 / 21.4 front, 22.5 / 22.5 rear. A different car, tyre or morning moves every number, which is what the calculator is for.
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