Sepang Turn 1: Braking from 321 to 74 km/h

Turn 1 · Sepang International Circuit · Sepang, Selangor, Malaysia

T1
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turn 1; the bar across the track is the start line.

Tight right at the end of the main straight, opening the Turn 1 and 2 complex.

Min speed
74 km/h
Approach
321 km/h
Lowest gear
1st
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
7%
Into the lap
6.5 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2026 pole lap · Max Verstappen, 1:35.130

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Through the corner

On the 2026 pole lap, Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) arrived at 321 km/h and slowed to 74 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 1, shedding 247 km/h, down to 1st gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 100 km/h before Turn 2.

Turn 1 comes 7% of the way round the 5.543 km lap, 0.38 km after the start line, and the car got there 6.5 s into the 1:35.130 lap. At 74 km/h it is the joint slowest of the 15 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Sepang, slowest first

  1. T1Turn 174 km/h
  2. T9Turn 976 km/h
  3. T15Turn 1581 km/h
  4. T14Turn 14109 km/h
  5. T5-6Turns 5 and 6248 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2026 pole lap, Max Verstappen, 1:35.130 lap.

Before and after

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