Racing glove size guide

Glove letters are the least consistent sizing on the site. An Alpinestars M and a Sparco M are nowhere near the same glove. One measurement sorts it out, and it takes about ten seconds to take.

Measure your palm

Your size in each brand

Find your palm measurement on the left. The three main brands do not agree, and the gap is not small.

Alpinestars run two letters bigger

Sparco and OMP put their letter row two steps up the numeric ladder, so a Sparco XS is a numeric 8. Alpinestars map their letters straight onto it, so their M is the same numeric 8. The result is that the same hand takes an Alpinestars M and a Sparco XS.

If you already own a pair of Sparco or OMP gloves that fit, go up roughly two letters for Alpinestars. A Sparco S is about an Alpinestars L. The two brands only converge at XXL, where both land on a ten inch palm.

Full charts by brand

SparcoNumeric 4 to 13 with the letter equivalents. We stock XXS to XXL.▼

Size	Letter	Palm (cm)	Palm (inch)
4	YXS	16 – 17	6.3 – 6.7
5	XXXXS	17 – 18	6.7 – 7
6	XXXS	18 – 19	7 – 7½
7	XXS	19 – 20.5	7½ – 8
8	XS	20.5 – 21.5	8 – 8½
9	S	21.5 – 22.5	8½ – 8.9
10	M	22.5 – 23.5	8.9 – 9.2
11	L	23.5 – 24.5	9.2 – 9.6
12	XL	24.5 – 25	9.6 – 9.8
13	XXL	25 – 25.5	9.8 – 10

OMPNumeric 4 to 13. Letters within half a centimetre of Sparco throughout.▼

Size	Letter	Hand circumference (cm)
4	5XS	17.5 – 18.4
5	4XS	18.5 – 19.2
6	3XS	19.3 – 19.9
7	2XS	20 – 20.7
8	XS	20.8 – 21.5
9	S	21.6 – 22.3
10	M	22.4 – 23
11	L	23.1 – 23.7
12	XL	23.8 – 24.8
13	XXL	24.7 – 25.4

AlpinestarsLetters only, S to XXL. Their bands are exactly 8, 8½, 9, 9½ and 10 inches.▼

Letter	Hand palm (cm)	Equivalent (inch)
S	17.8 – 20.3	7 – 8
M	20.3 – 21.6	8 – 8½
L	21.6 – 22.9	8½ – 9
XL	22.9 – 24.1	9 – 9½
XXL	24.1 – 25.4	9½ – 10

Alpinestars publish measurements for S to XXL only. The XXXL on the Tech 1-ZX V3 race glove and the Tech-M V2 mechanics glove is a genuine size, it is simply not on their chart, so ring us with your palm measurement rather than working it out from the XXL row.

MOMONumeric 4 to 12 with separate men’s, women’s and children’s labels.▼

Size	UK / USA	Also sold as
4	5½	Child S
5	6	Child M
6	6½	Child L / Woman S
7	7	Woman M
8	7½	Man XS / Woman L
9	8	Man S
10	8½	Man M
11	9	Man L
12	9½	Man XL

From the chart published by Brown & Geeson, MOMO’s UK distributor.

Sabelt and P1Both on the numeric ladder. Neither publishes a measurement chart.▼

The P1 Grip 2 is sold in 7 and 8. Read those off the numeric column in the table above, so a 7 is a 19 to 20.5 cm palm and an 8 is 20.5 to 21.5 cm.

The Sabelt Geckotech TG-11 is listed here as XS to XL. Sabelt do not publish hand measurements for it, so rather than convert from someone else’s chart, send us your palm measurement and we will confirm the size with the supplier before it ships.

How a race glove should fit

Tight, with no spare material

A driving glove wants to feel like a second skin. Any slack across the palm rolls up under your hand on the rim and you lose feel through the wheel, which is the entire reason for wearing them. If it feels slightly tight new, that is usually right. Leather and suede give a little in the first few sessions. Nomex knit does not, so buy that one to fit on day one.

External seams

The better gloves put the palm seams on the outside so nothing presses into your hand against the rim. It is worth having if you do long stints, and it is the single feature most likely to stop a hot spot developing across the base of the fingers.

Between two sizes

Take the smaller one on a leather or suede glove and the larger one on a knitted glove. That is the opposite of the advice for boots and suits, and it catches people out.

Sparco from sparco-official.com. OMP from the size chart on their Tecnica glove product page. Alpinestars from the size guide on their Tech-1 Race V4 product page. MOMO from Brown & Geeson, their UK distributor. All checked 2 August 2026. Manufacturers revise these, so if a chart on the packaging disagrees with this page, the packaging wins and we would like to know.