After starring in the season-opening Bahrain Grand Prix with P🌞8, Bottas struggled for overall performance in Saudi Arabia an꧙d Australia.

The Finn was out-qualified and out-ಌraced by teammate Zhou in both races.

In Saudi Arabia, Bottas blamed floor damage for his lack of race pace, while he started from the pit lane in Australia after Alfa Rom▨eo made a number of changes to his car to try and solve ꩲsome of his issues.

B🤡ottas fi♔nished the race at Albert Park in 11th, only ahead of Carlos Sainz who was hit with a five-second time penalty.

“It was difficult to underst🃏and the overall picture of where we are going,” Bottas said after Austra🌠lia. “It felt a little better, but hardly all the problems have been solved.

“I’m a little worried. Not where it should be. The mood is completely different tꦛhan it was in 🐼Bahrain.”

Ex-F1 engineer Ossi Oikarinen agre🌳ed that Bottas was right to be concerned about his form.

“That’s not acceptable,” Oikarinen told . “As Valtteri himself 🔯said, at this point you have to beไ worried.

“If you change the settings of the car w🥃ell before the race and test the new one, and it still doesn’t work, then there is a fundamental fault ꧙somewhere.

“It is necessary to s🌠it down with the team and think about what to do. 

“Such a rac𒐪e is not acceptable for Valtteri or the team. You have to press the rღeset button.”