Sphere section: the Slowest Corner at Las Vegas

Turns 9 to 11 · Las Vegas Strip Circuit · Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

T9-11
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Sphere section; the bar across the track is the start line.

Past the Sphere; cars at full speed down the Strip.

Min speed
71 km/h
Approach
117 km/h
Lowest gear
3rd
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
37%
Into the lap
49.6 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 117 km/h and slowed to 71 km/h at the slowest point of Sphere section, shedding 46 km/h, down to 3rd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 251 km/h before Strip braking zone.

Sphere section comes 37% of the way round the 6.201 km lap, 2.31 km after the start line, and the car got there 49.6 s into the 1:47.934 lap. At 71 km/h it is the slowest of the 15 corners on that lap (turns 9 to 11 counted as one).

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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