130R: the Fastest Corner at Suzuka

Turn 15 · Suzuka Circuit · Suzuka, Mie, Japan

T15
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of 130R; the bar across the track is the start line.

Iconic high-speed left taken flat in a modern car.

Min speed
296 km/h
Approach
302 km/h
Lowest gear
8th
Throttle
Flat out
Lap position
88%
Into the lap
74.3 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2025 pole lap · Max Verstappen, 1:26.983

The circuit page's newer lap has a gap in its telemetry, so this corner is read from the 2025 pole lap instead.

See 130R in the interactive map →

Through the corner

On the 2025 pole lap, Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) carried 296 km/h through 130R with almost no speed lost from the approach, staying in 8th gear. The throttle stayed fully open through the whole corner.

130R comes 88% of the way round the 5.807 km lap, 5.10 km after the start line, and the car got there 74.3 s into the 1:26.983 lap. At 296 km/h it is the fastest of the 18 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Suzuka, slowest first

  1. T11Hairpin78 km/h
  2. T16-17Casio Triangle100 km/h
  3. T3-7The Esses186 km/h
  4. T13-14Spoon186 km/h
  5. T8Degner286 km/h
  6. T15130R296 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2025 pole lap, Max Verstappen, 1:26.983 lap.

Before and after

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