Lewis Hamilton says he is looking for a repeat of his “spec🔥ial” pole lap fr💧om last year after topping Friday practice ahead of this weekend’s Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix.

The world championship leader posted the fastest lap of the day – a 1m38.773s – to set the pace aꦰcross both practice sessions at the Marina Bay Street Circuit on Friday after edging out Red Bull’s Max Verstappen by 0.183s in FP2.

Hamilton said he felt the best he has in his W10 challenger for a while and hopes to reproduce a similar lap to his sensational 201🍌8 pole effort in qualifying.

“I was really happy🅰, I felt much better in the car today than I have for a while,” Hamilton explained.

“I hope that stays over the whole of the weekend. But I think they redid a few patches, a few bits of ta🦂rmacs on the circuit, th𒐪e tyres are working well.

“If you can get into a groove over here then it’s such a beautiful lap. I really enjoyed it. We’ve definitely go💛t some areas we need to improve, which is always good, and nothing is ever perfect.

“So I’ve got to go and kind of study. Areas to impro🌠ve on the car but various also I could improve, some of the areas like braking and turning points, etc.

“It’s just finding pieces into the꧋ puzzle to make it perfect,” he added.

“I’m looking for that specia💎l lap that we had obviously last year and I think we got off to a good start, but still putting it altogether tomorrow it’s going to be tough.

“I think also the Red🔥 Bull wa𒀰s looking very, very quick. I’m excited for the challenge.”

Asked if he feels Red Bull could be quicker, H🔴amilton replied: “I’m not sure. I think my guys have a summary𓂃 now on where we stand.

“I mean I was obviously quickest in that ses𒊎sion but they were ver💙y, very close behind us.

“We don’t know if they’ve had a perfect lap or whether we will all turn ꦰup and then I’ll find out later.”