Jeddah Turn 1: Braking from 323 to 123 km/h

Turn 1 · Jeddah Corniche Circuit · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

T1
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turn 1; the bar across the track is the start line.

Slow left after the start, one of the few real braking zones.

Min speed
123 km/h
Approach
323 km/h
Lowest gear
3rd
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
7%
Into the lap
6.8 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2025 pole lap · Max Verstappen, 1:27.294

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Through the corner

On the 2025 pole lap, Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) arrived at 323 km/h and slowed to 123 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 1, shedding 200 km/h, down to 3rd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle.

Turn 1 comes 7% of the way round the 6.174 km lap, 0.44 km after the start line, and the car got there 6.8 s into the 1:27.294 lap. At 123 km/h it is the 4th slowest of the 27 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Jeddah, slowest first

  1. T27Turn 27109 km/h
  2. T1Turn 1123 km/h
  3. T13Turn 13158 km/h
  4. T22-23Turns 22-23195 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2025 pole lap, Max Verstappen, 1:27.294 lap.

Before and after

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