Koval hairpin: Braking from 331 to 75 km/h

Turn 14 · Las Vegas Strip Circuit · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

T14
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Koval hairpin; the bar across the track is the start line.

Slow left onto the return straight.

Min speed
75 km/h
Approach
331 km/h
Lowest gear
3rd
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
85%
Into the lap
92.3 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2025 pole lap · Lando Norris, 1:47.934

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Through the corner

On the 2025 pole lap, Lando Norris (McLaren) arrived at 331 km/h and slowed to 75 km/h at the slowest point of Koval hairpin, shedding 256 km/h, down to 3rd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 89 km/h before Turn 15.

Koval hairpin comes 85% of the way round the 6.201 km lap, 5.25 km after the start line, and the car got there 92.3 s into the 1:47.934 lap. At 75 km/h it is the joint 3rd slowest of the 17 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Las Vegas, slowest first

  1. T9-11Sphere section71 km/h
  2. T14Koval hairpin75 km/h
  3. T5-7Strip entry85 km/h
  4. T12Strip braking zone88 km/h
  5. T1-2Opening complex92 km/h
  6. T16-17Final chicane119 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2025 pole lap, Lando Norris, 1:47.934 lap.

Before and after

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