Baku Turn 15: Braking from 279 to 88 km/h

Turn 15 · Baku City Circuit · Baku, Azerbaijan

T15
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turn 15; the bar across the track is the start line.

Left in the run back down toward the seafront.

Min speed
88 km/h
Approach
279 km/h
Lowest gear
2nd
Throttle
13% min
Lap position
63%
Into the lap
73.2 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 279 km/h and slowed to 88 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 15, shedding 191 km/h, down to 2nd gear. The throttle never dropped below 13%. Out of it the car reached 229 km/h before Turn 16. From the approach to the exit the track drops 21 m.

Turn 15 comes 63% of the way round the 6.003 km lap, 3.80 km after the start line, and the car got there 73.2 s into the 1:42.526 lap. At 88 km/h it is the 3rd 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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