'That's not how you race' – Valtteri Bottas blasts Lance Stroll after Australian GP antics

Valtteri Bottas has slammed fellow Formula 1 driver Lance Stroll for his dangerous and unsportsmanlike driving at the Australian Grand Prix.

Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc took victory in Melbourne earlier in the month to extend his lead in the Drivers’ Championship, but further back there was a monumental scrap between the mid-table runners.

During the battle, Alfa Romeo’s Bottas was forced off the track by Aston Martin’s Stroll while the latter tried to overtake at Turn Three, and the Canadian was later penalised after the race for excessive weaving on the straights, something not permitted in the sport.

While Bottas recovered to finish eighth and score four valuable points for Alfa Romeo, the Finnish racer was less than impressed by Stroll’s antics, saying: ‘The weaving just made it really hard for me to decide where to go and it was a bit on the limit.

‘Then the pass, obviously, forced me to go off the track so I don’t think that’s how you should race.

‘But I still managed to get through and I think that cost me a bit of time for sure. Esteban [Ocon] otherwise could have been reachable but still, four points.’

Stroll’s driving etiquette has been under scrutiny before and that same weekend the Canadian was involved in a huge crash in qualifying with fellow countryman, and Williams driver, Nicholas Latifi, for which he received a three-place grid drop for the race.

Responding to the penalties he received in Australia, Stroll told Autosport: ‘I’m weaving to try and break the slipstream, not to try and defend, and then they penalise me for it.

‘I don’t get it. I guess a lot of funny decisions going on right now. I thought that was good racing.

‘It’s annoying to get penalised, because I don’t really understand their reasoning