Lewis Hamilton's stunning pole lap at the 2018 Singapore Grand Prix

Formula 1 heads back to Singapore for the first time since 2019 this weekend, with the circuit also the scene of one of Lewis Hamilton’s best-ever pole laps.

F1’s night race is always an exciting spectacle as the cars wind themselves around the streets of Singapore under the floodlights, and Hamilton’s P1 lap in 2018 is up there with one of the most spectacular things we’ve seen at the track, and in many a qualifying session.

As a driver with over a century of poles to pick from, it’s hard finding his very best but any conversation around his greatest single lap has to involve this effort from four years ago.

For context, though the Mercedes was a strong car and Hamilton was in the midst of a run of what would end up being four world titles in a row, he and the car did not look like they were going to deliver pole on the night in Singapore, with him not going fastest in either Q1 or Q2.

However, when it mattered in Q3 he produced a lap that was a full 1.3 seconds quicker than anything else he’d done during the session to land pole, in a performance he would describe as ‘one of the most complete’ laps he’d ever done.

Toto Wolff, meanwhile, called it ‘the best lap he’d ever seen in a Formula 1 car,’ with Lewis stitching together a sublime effort just inches away from the barriers at the Singapore circuit.

Only the pictures can do it justice, however, so take a look at it now:

Lewis Hamilton’s pole lap from 2018 is the perfect way to get in the mood for the #SingaporeGP this weekend