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Valtteri Bottas and Canadian driver took on a hockey challenge on the F1 paddock - the Finn's prize stirred up confusion: "What's that?"

Finland vs. Canada - that's the name of the game when the spring hockey world championships start this Friday. In honor of the first match, there was a little warm-up game at the F1 paddock as well, when Mercedes' Finnish driver Valtteri Bottas and Racing Point's Canadian driver Lance Stroll met each other in a hockey challenge.

[Valtteri Bottas, Mervi Kallio and Lance Stroll, Spanish GP 2019]

Full article from 2019 translated to English under the cut !

For this, the Leijonat (Finnish national team) had gifted Bottas an official jersey with signatures.

Stroll, in turn, received Canada's own jersey, to which the F1 driver laughed:

"Where's the Sidney Crosby signature on this?"

In the challenge, Bottas and Stroll had to hit plastic bottles arranged in a row so, that when you hit your own bottle, you'd have to give a point to your opponent.

"Damn, that started promisingly." Stroll cursed as he fell one of his own; a bottle in Canada's colors.

"Practically I'd win if I don't shoot at all?" Bottas asked when his own turn came.

"Come on, some sportsmanship!" Stroll exclaimed next to him.

In the end, Bottas downed Stroll's bottle as well, winning the challenge 2-0.

During the trophy ceremony, Stroll followed puzzled as Bottas was handed Finnish Sisu. (black liquorice candy)

"What's that?" Stroll asked Bottas.

"It's salmiakki." Bottas quipped.

"Ah! I've heard of that stuff." Stroll chuckled along.

To Stroll, the losing Canuck, the outcome was a set of warning words when C More's F1 paddock commentator Mervi Kallio gave him Tyrkisk Peber (spicy salty liquorice) as a consolation prize.

"Don't eat it before quali or the race! It could mess up an untrained stomach!" Kallio advised.

"Thanks for the warning." Stroll laughed while inspecting his prize.