The invention relates to a tread profile of a pneumatic vehicle tire, comprising profile strips (1) that extend over the entire circumference of the pneumatic vehicle tire, wherein a plurality of transverse or oblique recesses (5, 6, 7, 8) are designed over the circumference of the pneumatic vehicle tire in at least one profile strip (1), wherein the recess (5, 6, 7, 8) in a first radial extension region (9) is designed as fine recess having a thickness d and an extension height H1 as measured in the radial direction R, and in a second radial extension region (10) is designed as a wide recess with a thickness B, with B = (2d), and an extension height H2 as measured in the radial direction R, wherein the radial positions of the first radial extension region (9) and of the second radial extension region (10) formed in relation to each other within a recess (5, 6, 7, 8) are selected to be different from each other in the recesses (5, 6, 7, 8) distributed over the circumference of the tire.