Woodcote: Flat Out at 279 km/h

Turn 8 · Silverstone Circuit · Silverstone, Northamptonshire, England

T8
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Woodcote; the bar across the track is the start line.

Fast right kink onto the old start straight.

Min speed
279 km/h
Approach
279 km/h
Lowest gear
7th
Throttle
Flat out
Lap position
44%
Into the lap
42.9 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) carried 279 km/h through Woodcote with almost no speed lost from the approach, staying in 7th gear. The throttle stayed fully open through the whole corner. Out of it the car reached 316 km/h before Copse.

Woodcote comes 44% of the way round the 5.891 km lap, 2.57 km after the start line, and the car got there 42.9 s into the 1:28.111 lap. At 279 km/h it is the 5th fastest 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.

Before and after

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