Suzuka Hairpin: Speed, Gear & Braking Data

Suzuka Hairpin: the Slowest Corner at Suzuka

Turn 11 · Suzuka Circuit · Suzuka, Mie, Japan

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

The lap's slowest corner, deep in the infield.

Min speed: 78 km/h
Approach: 266 km/h
Lowest gear: 3rd
Throttle: Fully off
Lap position: 51%
Into the lap: 44.2 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 266 km/h and slowed to 78 km/h at the slowest point of Hairpin, shedding 188 km/h, down to 3rd gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 243 km/h before Turn 12. From the approach to the exit the track climbs 7 m.

Hairpin comes 51% of the way round the 5.807 km lap, 2.98 km after the start line, and the car got there 44.2 s into the 1:26.983 lap. At 78 km/h it is the slowest of the 18 corners on that lap.

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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