Curva Grande: the Fastest Corner at Monza

Turn 3 · Autodromo Nazionale Monza · Monza, Lombardy, Italy

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

Long, flat-out right that barely feels like a corner at 330 km/h.

Min speed
299 km/h
Approach
299 km/h
Lowest gear
7th
Throttle
Flat out
Lap position
25%
Into the lap
21.5 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2026 pole lap · Pierre Gasly, 1:21.786

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Through the corner

On the 2026 pole lap, Pierre Gasly (Alpine) carried 299 km/h through Curva Grande with almost no speed lost from the approach, staying in 7th gear. The throttle stayed fully open through the whole corner. Out of it the car reached 308 km/h before Variante della Roggia.

Curva Grande comes 25% of the way round the 5.793 km lap, 1.44 km after the start line, and the car got there 21.5 s into the 1:21.786 lap. At 299 km/h it is the fastest of the 11 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Monza, slowest first

  1. T1Variante del Rettifilo90 km/h
  2. T4Variante della Roggia123 km/h
  3. T7Lesmo 2184 km/h
  4. T8Variante Ascari186 km/h
  5. T6Lesmo 1206 km/h
  6. T11Parabolica212 km/h
  7. T3Curva Grande299 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2026 pole lap, Pierre Gasly, 1:21.786 lap.

Before and after

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