Bahrain Turn 8: Braking from 241 to 91 km/h

Turn 8 · Bahrain International Circuit · Sakhir, Bahrain

T8
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turn 8; the bar across the track is the start line.

Quick esses through the middle of the lap.

Min speed
91 km/h
Approach
241 km/h
Lowest gear
3rd
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
44%
Into the lap
38.4 s

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

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Through the corner

On the 2025 pole lap, Oscar Piastri (McLaren) arrived at 241 km/h and slowed to 91 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 8, shedding 150 km/h, down to 3rd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 260 km/h before Turn 9.

Turn 8 comes 44% of the way round the 5.412 km lap, 2.39 km after the start line, and the car got there 38.4 s into the 1:29.841 lap. At 91 km/h it is the 3rd 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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