Baku Turn 16: Turn 16 at Baku

Turn 16 · Baku City Circuit · Baku, Azerbaijan

T16
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turn 16; the bar across the track is the start line.

Final left onto the 2.2 km flat-out blast to Turn 1.

Min speed
126 km/h
Approach
229 km/h
Lowest gear
3rd
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
69%
Into the lap
80.7 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 229 km/h and slowed to 126 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 16, shedding 103 km/h, down to 3rd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 249 km/h before Turn 17.

Turn 16 comes 69% of the way round the 6.003 km lap, 4.15 km after the start line, and the car got there 80.7 s into the 1:42.526 lap. At 126 km/h it is the 10th fastest 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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