Seat: the Slowest Corner at Barcelona

Turn 5 · Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya · Montmeló, Barcelona, Spain

T5
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Seat; the bar across the track is the start line.

Downhill left-hander into the technical middle sector.

Min speed
111 km/h
Approach
223 km/h
Lowest gear
2nd
Throttle
46% min
Lap position
44%
Into the lap
31.1 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2026 pole lap · George Russell, 1:14.679

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Through the corner

On the 2026 pole lap, George Russell (Mercedes) arrived at 223 km/h and slowed to 111 km/h at the slowest point of Seat, shedding 112 km/h, down to 2nd gear. The throttle never dropped below 46%. Out of it the car reached 255 km/h before Turn 6. From the approach to the exit the track drops 18 m.

Seat comes 44% of the way round the 4.657 km lap, 2.04 km after the start line, and the car got there 31.1 s into the 1:14.679 lap. At 111 km/h it is the slowest of the 14 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Barcelona, slowest first

  1. T5Seat111 km/h
  2. T10La Caixa112 km/h
  3. T1Elf150 km/h
  4. T3Renault238 km/h
  5. T9Campsa243 km/h
  6. T14New Holland253 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2026 pole lap, George Russell, 1:14.679 lap.

Before and after

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