Yas Marina Turn 16: Turn 16 at Yas Marina

Turn 16 · Yas Marina Circuit · Yas Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

T16
Speed along the lap, slow (violet) to fast (red). The white ring is the slowest point of Turn 16; the bar across the track is the start line.

Final corner onto the main straight.

Min speed
138 km/h
Approach
271 km/h
Lowest gear
4th
Throttle
Fully off
Lap position
95%
Into the lap
77.3 s

Real F1 telemetry · 2025 pole lap · Max Verstappen, 1:22.207

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Through the corner

On the 2025 pole lap, Max Verstappen (Red Bull Racing) arrived at 271 km/h and slowed to 138 km/h at the slowest point of Turn 16, shedding 133 km/h, down to 4th gear. The driver came fully off the throttle. Out of it the car reached 267 km/h before Turn 1.

Turn 16 comes 95% of the way round the 5.281 km lap, 5.00 km after the start line, and the car got there 77.3 s into the 1:22.207 lap. At 138 km/h it is the 5th slowest of the 16 corners on that lap.

Named corners at Yas Marina, slowest first

  1. T6Turn 671 km/h
  2. T12Turn 12114 km/h
  3. T16Turn 16138 km/h
  4. T9Turn 9188 km/h
  5. T2Turn 2249 km/h

Slowest point of each corner on the 2025 pole lap, Max Verstappen, 1:22.207 lap.

Before and after

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