La Source: Braking from 266 to 81 km/h

Turn 1 · Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps · Stavelot, Wallonia, Belgium

T1
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of La Source; the bar across the track is the start line.

Slow uphill hairpin right out of the start; the lap's tightest corner.

Min speed
81 km/h
Approach
266 km/h
Lowest gear
1st
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
7%
Into the lap
9.3 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 266 km/h and slowed to 81 km/h at the slowest point of La Source, shedding 185 km/h, down to 1st gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 329 km/h before Turn 2. From the approach to the exit the track drops 27 m.

La Source comes 7% of the way round the 7.004 km lap, 0.49 km after the start line, and the car got there 9.3 s into the 1:44.361 lap. At 81 km/h it is the 2nd slowest of the 19 corners on that lap.

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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