COTA Turns 16-18: Flat Out at 202 km/h

Turns 16 to 18 · Circuit of the Americas · Austin, Texas, United States

T16-18
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turns 16-18; the bar across the track is the start line.

High-speed triple-apex left inspired by Istanbul's Turn 8.

Min speed
202 km/h
Approach
202 km/h
Lowest gear
4th
Throttle
Flat out
Lap position
81%
Into the lap
74.8 s

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

See Turns 16-18 in the interactive map →

Through the corner

On the 2025 pole lap, Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) carried 202 km/h through Turns 16-18 with almost no speed lost from the approach, staying in 4th gear. The throttle stayed fully open through the whole corner. Out of it the car reached 283 km/h before Turn 19.

Turns 16-18 comes 81% of the way round the 5.513 km lap, 4.44 km after the start line, and the car got there 74.8 s into the 1:32.510 lap. At 202 km/h it is the 9th fastest of the 18 corners on that lap (turns 16 to 18 counted as one).

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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