Mexico City Turn 1: Braking from 348 to 119 km/h

Turn 1 · Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez · Mexico City, Mexico

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 top speed at the end of the long straight; the main passing spot.

Min speed
119 km/h
Approach
348 km/h
Lowest gear
3rd
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
27%
Into the lap
12.9 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2025 pole lap · Lando Norris, 1:15.586

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Through the corner

On the 2025 pole lap, Lando Norris (McLaren) arrived at 348 km/h and slowed to 119 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 1, shedding 229 km/h, down to 3rd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle.

Turn 1 comes 27% of the way round the 4.304 km lap, 1.16 km after the start line, and the car got there 12.9 s into the 1:15.586 lap. At 119 km/h it is the joint 8th fastest of the 17 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Mexico City, slowest first

  1. T4Turn 485 km/h
  2. T7Turn 794 km/h
  3. T16Peraltada109 km/h
  4. T1Turn 1119 km/h
  5. T12Foro Sol139 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2025 pole lap, Lando Norris, 1:15.586 lap.

Before and after

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