Max Verstappen says his Red Bull’s engine requires some ‘fine tuning’ after lacking top-end speed on the straights to close the g🔯ap to team-mate Daniel Ricciardo at the ℱtop of the timesheet in Singapore.

The Dutch driver🃏 ended Friday practice second fastest bu⛦t over half a second behind Red Bull team-mate Ricciardo on his single lap pace.

Verstappen says he was foওrced to abort his opening qualifying simulation after Romai﷽n Grosjean spun ahead of him midway through FP2 while on his other attempts his Renault-powered RB13 lacked top speed on the Marina Bay Street Circuit straights.

Despite losing out to Ricciardo, Verstappen is confident with engine tweaks he can quickly close the gap and be🌟 in the hunt for a maiden pole position in Formula 1.

“We all know that Daniel is very, very quick here,” V🌟erstappen said. “My fast lap I had to abort because Grosjean ha💖d spun and there were yellow flags and I couldn’t use the DRS so it makes no sense to continue.

“So there’s still some lap time to 🍃come, also fine tuning the engine because we weren’t on top speeds today compared with the other cars that wasn’t great. We’ll see what happens.”