Lusail Turn 1: Braking from 327 to 175 km/h

Turn 1 · Lusail International Circuit · Lusail, Qatar

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.

Hard braking from the main straight into a tight right.

Min speed
175 km/h
Approach
327 km/h
Lowest gear
4th
Throttle
41% min
Lap position
9%
Into the lap
5.9 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2025 pole lap · Oscar Piastri, 1:19.387

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Through the corner

On the 2025 pole lap, Oscar Piastri (McLaren) arrived at 327 km/h and slowed to 175 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 1, shedding 152 km/h, down to 4th gear. The throttle never dropped below 41%. Out of it the car reached 225 km/h before Turn 2.

Turn 1 comes 9% of the way round the 5.419 km lap, 0.51 km after the start line, and the car got there 5.9 s into the 1:19.387 lap. At 175 km/h it is the 5th slowest of the 16 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Lusail, slowest first

  1. T6Turn 699 km/h
  2. T10Turn 10160 km/h
  3. T16Turn 16174 km/h
  4. T1Turn 1175 km/h
  5. T4Turn 4222 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2025 pole lap, Oscar Piastri, 1:19.387 lap.

Before and after

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