Bahrain Turn 4: Turn 4 at Bahrain

Turn 4 · Bahrain International Circuit · Sakhir, Bahrain

T4
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turn 4; the bar across the track is the start line.

Hard braking into a tight right; another key overtaking zone.

Min speed
123 km/h
Approach
229 km/h
Lowest gear
3rd
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
31%
Into the lap
26.2 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2025 pole lap · Oscar Piastri, 1:29.841

See Turn 4 in the interactive map →

Through the corner

On the 2025 pole lap, Oscar Piastri (McLaren) arrived at 229 km/h and slowed to 123 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 4, shedding 106 km/h, down to 3rd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 253 km/h before Turn 5. From the approach to the exit the track climbs 8 m.

Turn 4 comes 31% of the way round the 5.412 km lap, 1.67 km after the start line, and the car got there 26.2 s into the 1:29.841 lap. At 123 km/h it is the 4th slowest of the 15 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Bahrain, slowest first

  1. T1Turn 167 km/h
  2. T10Turn 1080 km/h
  3. T8Turn 891 km/h
  4. T4Turn 4123 km/h
  5. T11Turn 11161 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2025 pole lap, Oscar Piastri, 1:29.841 lap.

Before and after

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