Nouvelle Chicane: Braking from 288 to 70 km/h

Turns 10 and 11 · Circuit de Monaco · Monte Carlo, Monaco

T10-11
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Nouvelle Chicane; the bar across the track is the start line.

Hard braking out of the tunnel; best passing chance.

Min speed
70 km/h
Approach
288 km/h
Lowest gear
1st
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
63%
Into the lap
45.6 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2026 pole lap · Kimi Antonelli, 1:12.051

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Through the corner

On the 2026 pole lap, Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) arrived at 288 km/h and slowed to 70 km/h at the slowest point of Nouvelle Chicane, shedding 218 km/h, down to 1st gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 236 km/h before Tabac. From the approach to the exit the track drops 5 m.

Nouvelle Chicane comes 63% of the way round the 3.337 km lap, 2.09 km after the start line, and the car got there 45.6 s into the 1:12.051 lap. At 70 km/h it is the 3rd slowest of the 18 corners on that lap (turns 10 and 11 counted as one).

Named corners at Monaco, slowest first

  1. T6Grand Hôtel Hairpin47 km/h
  2. T18La Rascasse62 km/h
  3. T10-11Nouvelle Chicane70 km/h
  4. T8Portier82 km/h
  5. T19Anthony Noghès83 km/h
  6. T1Sainte Dévote114 km/h
  7. T13-16Swimming Pool127 km/h
  8. T4Casino139 km/h
  9. T3Massenet164 km/h
  10. T12Tabac169 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2026 pole lap, Kimi Antonelli, 1:12.051 lap.

Before and after

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