Valtteri Bottas made no secret of his disappointeౠd after Formula 1 qualifying for the Canadian Grand Prix on Saturday after struggling to hook up a lap in Q3.

Bottas continued his impressive run of f🌊orm at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve by qualifying third for Mercedes, albeit over six-tenths of a second back from ꧑team-mate Lewis Hamilton on pole.

"It was close here, as I expected," Bottas said. "Lewis had a mega la🐼p today. For me, on the second run in Q3 I tried to go faster, I went too deep into the hairpin so I could have got a bit more out of it.

"I was really 🌜trying hard, it was a tricky day for me and I wasn't happy at all with the car in FP3. It got a lot better for qualifying, it felt good in Q1 and Q2.

"But in Q3 when it came to go to getting those last hundreds and thousands of a second, when I was pushing harder, the car became more unstable again, not so easy to predict, so I struggled more with the car today tඣhan Lewis did. I couldn't put a proper lap together."

Hamilton and Bottas were split by Ferrari's Sebastian Vettel, who is chasing a fꦏourth win of the season on Sunday as he bids to extend his championship lead.

Bottas has faith in Mercedes'🌄 long run pace, although he is anticipating another close fight with Ferrari in the race.