Casio Triangle at Suzuka: Speed, Gear & Data

Casio Triangle: Braking from 299 to 100 km/h

Turns 16 and 17 · Suzuka Circuit · Suzuka, Mie, Japan

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

Tight final chicane; the best late-braking passing spot.

Min speed: 100 km/h
Approach: 299 km/h
Lowest gear: 3rd
Throttle: Fully off
Lap position: 94%
Into the lap: 79.5 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.

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Through the corner

On the 2025 pole lap, Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) arrived at 299 km/h and slowed to 100 km/h at the slowest point of Casio Triangle, shedding 199 km/h, down to 3rd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 232 km/h before Turn 18. From the approach to the exit the track drops 6 m.

Casio Triangle comes 94% of the way round the 5.807 km lap, 5.44 km after the start line, and the car got there 79.5 s into the 1:26.983 lap. At 100 km/h it is the 2nd slowest of the 17 corners on that lap (turns 16 and 17 counted as one).

Named corners at Suzuka, slowest first

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

Before and after

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