Vale: Braking from 261 to 104 km/h

Turn 16 · Silverstone Circuit · Silverstone, Northamptonshire, England

T16
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Vale; the bar across the track is the start line.

Hard braking into a slow left before the final Club complex.

Min speed
104 km/h
Approach
261 km/h
Lowest gear
2nd
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
95%
Into the lap
81.8 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2026 pole lap · Kimi Antonelli, 1:28.111

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Through the corner

On the 2026 pole lap, Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) arrived at 261 km/h and slowed to 104 km/h at the slowest point of Vale, shedding 157 km/h, down to 2nd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 128 km/h before Club.

Vale comes 95% of the way round the 5.891 km lap, 5.60 km after the start line, and the car got there 81.8 s into the 1:28.111 lap. At 104 km/h it is the 3rd slowest of the 18 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Silverstone, slowest first

  1. T4The Loop88 km/h
  2. T17-18Club102 km/h
  3. T16Vale104 km/h
  4. T7Luffield116 km/h
  5. T3Village125 km/h
  6. T6Brooklands168 km/h
  7. T5Aintree214 km/h
  8. T10-13Maggotts & Becketts219 km/h
  9. T14Chapel234 km/h
  10. T15Stowe236 km/h
  11. T8Woodcote279 km/h
  12. T2Farm283 km/h
  13. T9Copse283 km/h
  14. T1Abbey291 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2026 pole lap, Kimi Antonelli, 1:28.111 lap.

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