Variante del Rettifilo: Braking from 337 to 90 km/h

Turn 1 · Autodromo Nazionale Monza · Monza, Lombardy, Italy

T1
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Variante del Rettifilo; the bar across the track is the start line.

Heavy braking from top speed into the first chicane; the main overtaking spot.

Min speed
90 km/h
Approach
337 km/h
Lowest gear
1st
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
16%
Into the lap
11.6 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 337 km/h and slowed to 90 km/h at the slowest point of Variante del Rettifilo, shedding 247 km/h, down to 1st gear. The driver came fully off the throttle.

Variante del Rettifilo comes 16% of the way round the 5.793 km lap, 0.94 km after the start line, and the car got there 11.6 s into the 1:21.786 lap. At 90 km/h it is the 2nd slowest 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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