Variante Ascari: Turn 8 at Monza

Turn 8 · Autodromo Nazionale Monza · Monza, Lombardy, Italy

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

Fast flowing left-right-left; the lap's signature sequence.

Min speed
186 km/h
Approach
330 km/h
Lowest gear
4th
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
68%
Into the lap
56.7 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) arrived at 330 km/h and slowed to 186 km/h at the slowest point of Variante Ascari, shedding 144 km/h, down to 4th gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 216 km/h before Turn 9.

Variante Ascari comes 68% of the way round the 5.793 km lap, 3.97 km after the start line, and the car got there 56.7 s into the 1:21.786 lap. At 186 km/h it is the 6th 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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