Through the corner
On the 2026 pole lap, Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) carried 214 km/h through Aintree with almost no speed lost from the approach, staying in 4th gear. The throttle stayed fully open through the whole corner. Out of it the car reached 270 km/h before Brooklands.
Aintree comes 21% of the way round the 5.891 km lap, 1.26 km after the start line, and the car got there 21.6 s into the 1:28.111 lap. At 214 km/h it is the 8th slowest of the 18 corners on that lap.
Named corners at Silverstone, slowest first
- T4The Loop88 km/h
- T17-18Club102 km/h
- T16Vale104 km/h
- T7Luffield116 km/h
- T3Village125 km/h
- T6Brooklands168 km/h
- T5Aintree214 km/h
- T10-13Maggotts & Becketts219 km/h
- T14Chapel234 km/h
- T15Stowe236 km/h
- T8Woodcote279 km/h
- T2Farm283 km/h
- T9Copse283 km/h
- T1Abbey291 km/h
Slowest point of each corner on the 2026 pole lap, Kimi Antonelli, 1:28.111 lap.