Lewis Hamilton dedicates Belgian Grand Prix pole to Chadwick Boseman in heartfelt tribute

And he admitted he was shocked by his own performance as he posted two laps faster than Vettel’s record-breaking effort from 2018.

“It was incredible, that session,” said Hamilton. “It was getting better and better. But it’s really been learning to exploit [the track].

“The tracks a bit different in the sense of the run-off areas, so you can really pick up the gas a lot earlier, focussing on the exits around here is naturally important. I didn’t make any steps on all the laps, but the Q3 run-one lap was ace. And I was thinking ‘there’s probably no way I’m going to beat that’.

“Turn One has probably been a weakness for me the last few years [but] I just got stronger and stronger through there. I saw that I was up out of Turn One and I just kept eeking away throughout the lap. So that was a very, very good lap.”

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source: express.co.uk