COTA Turn 12: Braking from 321 to 104 km/h

Turn 12 · Circuit of the Americas · Austin, Texas, United States

T12
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turn 12; the bar across the track is the start line.

Heavy braking at the end of the back straight; the best overtaking spot on the lap.

Min speed
104 km/h
Approach
321 km/h
Lowest gear
3rd
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
69%
Into the lap
58.5 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2025 pole lap · Max Verstappen, 1:32.510

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Through the corner

On the 2025 pole lap, Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) arrived at 321 km/h and slowed to 104 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 12, shedding 217 km/h, down to 3rd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 207 km/h before Stadium section.

Turn 12 comes 69% of the way round the 5.513 km lap, 3.78 km after the start line, and the car got there 58.5 s into the 1:32.510 lap. At 104 km/h it is the 5th slowest of the 20 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Circuit of the Americas, slowest first

  1. T1Turn 191 km/h
  2. T11Turn 1191 km/h
  3. T13-15Stadium section94 km/h
  4. T12Turn 12104 km/h
  5. T16-18Turns 16-18202 km/h
  6. T19Turn 19218 km/h
  7. T3-6The Esses241 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2025 pole lap, Max Verstappen, 1:32.510 lap.

Before and after

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