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

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

"It was close here, as I expected," Bottas said. "Lewis ha𝔉d a mega lap 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 𒐪it.

"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 𝔉Q2.

"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 than Lewis did. I couldn't put a proper lap together."

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

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