The Esses at Suzuka: Speed, Gear & Data

The Esses: Turns 3 to 7 at Suzuka

Turns 3 to 7 · Suzuka Circuit · Suzuka, Mie, Japan

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

Flowing uphill S-curves that set the lap; total commitment.

Min speed: 186 km/h
Approach: 187 km/h
Lowest gear: 5th
Throttle: 3% min
Lap position: 16%
Into the lap: 11.9 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) carried 186 km/h through The Esses with almost no speed lost from the approach, down to 5th gear. The throttle never dropped below 3%. Out of it the car reached 288 km/h before Degner. From the approach to the exit the track climbs 29 m.

The Esses comes 16% of the way round the 5.807 km lap, 0.94 km after the start line, and the car got there 11.9 s into the 1:26.983 lap. At 186 km/h it is the joint 6th slowest of the 14 corners on that lap (turns 3 to 7 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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