Portier: Turn 8 at Monaco

Turn 8 · Circuit de Monaco · Monte Carlo, Monaco

T8
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Portier; the bar across the track is the start line.

Right-hander onto the seafront and into the tunnel.

Min speed
82 km/h
Approach
127 km/h
Lowest gear
1st
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
42%
Into the lap
33.3 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 127 km/h and slowed to 82 km/h at the slowest point of Portier, shedding 45 km/h, down to 1st gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 265 km/h before Turn 9.

Portier comes 42% of the way round the 3.337 km lap, 1.39 km after the start line, and the car got there 33.3 s into the 1:12.051 lap. At 82 km/h it is the 5th slowest of the 19 corners on that lap.

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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