Esplanade: Braking from 290 to 90 km/h

Turn 14 · Marina Bay Street Circuit · Marina Bay, Singapore

T14
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Esplanade; the bar across the track is the start line.

Slow corner by the waterfront theatres.

Min speed
90 km/h
Approach
290 km/h
Lowest gear
2nd
Throttle
8% min
Lap position
71%
Into the lap
67.6 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2026 pole lap · Max Verstappen, 1:31.373

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Through the corner

On the 2026 pole lap, Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) arrived at 290 km/h and slowed to 90 km/h at the slowest point of Esplanade, shedding 200 km/h, down to 2nd gear. The throttle never dropped below 8%. Out of it the car reached 254 km/h before Turn 15.

Esplanade comes 71% of the way round the 4.940 km lap, 3.50 km after the start line, and the car got there 67.6 s into the 1:31.373 lap. At 90 km/h it is the 4th slowest of the 19 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Singapore, slowest first

  1. T14Esplanade90 km/h
  2. T16Turn 16111 km/h
  3. T7Turn 7125 km/h
  4. T1Turn 1138 km/h
  5. T5Memorial145 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2026 pole lap, Max Verstappen, 1:31.373 lap.

Before and after

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