Baku Turn 1: Braking from 330 to 119 km/h

Turn 1 · Baku City Circuit · Baku, Azerbaijan

T1
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turn 1; the bar across the track is the start line.

Hard 90-degree left after the start; heavy braking and a passing chance.

Min speed
119 km/h
Approach
330 km/h
Lowest gear
2nd
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
6%
Into the lap
5.3 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2026 pole lap · George Russell, 1:42.526

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Through the corner

On the 2026 pole lap, George Russell (Mercedes) arrived at 330 km/h and slowed to 119 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 1, shedding 211 km/h, down to 2nd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 250 km/h before Turn 2.

Turn 1 comes 6% of the way round the 6.003 km lap, 0.36 km after the start line, and the car got there 5.3 s into the 1:42.526 lap. At 119 km/h it is the 10th slowest of the 20 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Baku, slowest first

  1. T15Turn 1588 km/h
  2. T3Turn 3110 km/h
  3. T1Turn 1119 km/h
  4. T16Turn 16126 km/h
  5. T8Castle section140 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2026 pole lap, George Russell, 1:42.526 lap.

Before and after

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