Shanghai Turn 6: Braking from 288 to 81 km/h

Turn 6 · Shanghai International Circuit · Shanghai, China

T6
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turn 6; the bar across the track is the start line.

Quick left out of the opening complex.

Min speed
81 km/h
Approach
288 km/h
Lowest gear
2nd
Throttle
5% min
Lap position
30%
Into the lap
28.5 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 288 km/h and slowed to 81 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 6, shedding 207 km/h, down to 2nd gear. The throttle never dropped below 5%. Out of it the car reached 272 km/h before Turn 7.

Turn 6 comes 30% of the way round the 5.451 km lap, 1.64 km after the start line, and the car got there 28.5 s into the 1:32.064 lap. At 81 km/h it is the 2nd 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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