Shanghai Turn 11: Braking from 274 to 94 km/h

Turn 11 · Shanghai International Circuit · Shanghai, China

T11
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turn 11; the bar across the track is the start line.

Begins the long right that leads onto the back straight.

Min speed
94 km/h
Approach
274 km/h
Lowest gear
2nd
Throttle
6% min
Lap position
59%
Into the lap
54.7 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2026 pole lap · Kimi Antonelli, 1:32.064

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Through the corner

On the 2026 pole lap, Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) arrived at 274 km/h and slowed to 94 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 11, shedding 180 km/h, down to 2nd gear. The throttle never dropped below 6%. Out of it the car reached 118 km/h before Turn 12.

Turn 11 comes 59% of the way round the 5.451 km lap, 3.19 km after the start line, and the car got there 54.7 s into the 1:32.064 lap. At 94 km/h it is the 3rd slowest of the 16 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Shanghai, slowest first

  1. T14Turn 1469 km/h
  2. T6Turn 681 km/h
  3. T11Turn 1194 km/h
  4. T1-4The Snail96 km/h
  5. T13Turn 13211 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2026 pole lap, Kimi Antonelli, 1:32.064 lap.

Before and after

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