Eau Rouge / Raidillon: Flat Out at 301 km/h

Turns 3 and 4 · Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps · Stavelot, Wallonia, Belgium

T3-4
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Eau Rouge / Raidillon; the bar across the track is the start line.

Flat-out left-right-left, downhill then steeply up; the most famous sequence in F1.

Min speed
301 km/h
Approach
324 km/h
Lowest gear
8th
Throttle
Flat out
Lap position
18%
Into the lap
20.3 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2026 pole lap · Kimi Antonelli, 1:44.361

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Through the corner

On the 2026 pole lap, Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) arrived at 324 km/h and slowed to 301 km/h at the slowest point of Eau Rouge / Raidillon, shedding 23 km/h, staying in 8th gear. The throttle stayed fully open through the whole corner. Out of it the car reached 328 km/h before Les Combes. From the approach to the exit the track climbs 39 m.

Eau Rouge / Raidillon comes 18% of the way round the 7.004 km lap, 1.29 km after the start line, and the car got there 20.3 s into the 1:44.361 lap. At 301 km/h it is the 3rd fastest of the 18 corners on that lap (turns 3 and 4 counted as one).

Named corners at Spa-Francorchamps, slowest first

  1. T18-19Bus Stop76 km/h
  2. T1La Source81 km/h
  3. T8Rivage125 km/h
  4. T5Les Combes155 km/h
  5. T10-11Pouhon266 km/h
  6. T17Blanchimont292 km/h
  7. T3-4Eau Rouge / Raidillon301 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2026 pole lap, Kimi Antonelli, 1:44.361 lap.

Before and after

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