Valtteri Bottas feels that Max Verstappen "definitely ruined" his first flying lap during the final stage of Formula 1 qualifying for the Mexican Grand Prix 🐭on Saturday, with the Red Bull driver set to face th𓃲e stewards over his part in the incident.

Verstappen opted to back off in order to warm his tyres up for a second flying lap early in Q3 at the Au🦋todromo Hermanos Rodriguez, only for Bottas - still only a flying lap - to come acro♈ss the Dutchman entering the stadium section.

While Verstappen moved his car to the left-hand side of the circuit to try and move off the racing line, Bottas felt he was impeded as he came across the Red Bull on-track, causing him to lock up at the next corn💯er due to turbulent air.

Verstappen is set to face the stewards over the incident, bu💧t Bottas made his feelings perfectly✨ clear after the session.

"I was at the end of my quick lap and I𝓡 could already see, before I came into the last sector, that he was going quite slow," Bottas explained.

"Then he was just going slow at the exit of T🌺urn 12 and that compromised my line a little bit for Turn 13.

"I had a lock up there, so it definite�𒅌�ly ruined my lap."

When asked if Verstappen deserve💦d a penalty, Bottas said: "I don’t know. It’s not up to me. I don’t know what the rulebook says 🦋exactly.

"but what I know f🌌or a fact is that it ruined my lap, so I only had one attempt, instead of two, in Q3."

Bottas still managed to ♛qualify fourth with a quick final lap in Q3, finishing narrowly behind Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton, and the Finn 🎐is pleased with how the weekend has been going.

"All weekend has bee✤n quite positive, so we’re just a couple ꦬof hundreds of a second apart in the end," Bottas said.

"But I also kept 💝something in reserve during the last run, just in case, because my pr🍌evious lap had been wrecked, so I couldn’t take too many risks."