Les Combes: Braking from 328 to 155 km/h

Turn 5 · Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps · Stavelot, Wallonia, Belgium

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

Hard braking right at the top of the Kemmel Straight; prime overtaking spot.

Min speed
155 km/h
Approach
328 km/h
Lowest gear
3rd
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
36%
Into the lap
34.9 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 328 km/h and slowed to 155 km/h at the slowest point of Les Combes, shedding 173 km/h, down to 3rd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 164 km/h before Turn 6. From the approach to the exit the track climbs 38 m.

Les Combes comes 36% of the way round the 7.004 km lap, 2.53 km after the start line, and the car got there 34.9 s into the 1:44.361 lap. At 155 km/h it is the 5th 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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