Lusail Turn 16: Turn 16 at Lusail

Turn 16 · Lusail International Circuit · Lusail, Qatar

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

Final corner onto the long main straight.

Min speed
174 km/h
Approach
288 km/h
Lowest gear
4th
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
87%
Into the lap
70.1 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 288 km/h and slowed to 174 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 16, shedding 114 km/h, down to 4th gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 327 km/h before Turn 1.

Turn 16 comes 87% of the way round the 5.419 km lap, 4.74 km after the start line, and the car got there 70.1 s into the 1:19.387 lap. At 174 km/h it is the 4th 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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