Valtteri Bottas This article is more than 1 month old‘Bottass 2024’: F1 driver raises $150,000 for charity with racy calendar
This article is more than 1 month old- F1 driver joined in men’s health fundraiser Movember
- ‘I had people ask: Why do you want to show your ass?’
Formula One driver Valtteri Bottas has raised $150,000 for men’s health charity Movember after a “Bottass 2024” calendar featuring photographs of him baring his backside sped off the shelves.
An initial run of 10,000, with $5.46 from each going to prostate cancer research, swiftly sold out before more were printed.
“Thank you so much for all the support in November. With the donations and with the calendars we have together raised a substantial amount for @Movember,” Bottas announced via social media on Thursday. “Final figures to be calculated in the next days, but we are talking around $150k of funds raised!”
The Alfa Romeo driver had the calendar idea with photographer Paul Ripke after his partner and Australian cyclist, Tiffany Cromwell, took a picture of Bottas lying naked in a stream in Aspen, Colorado. That shot proved popular on Instagram and was sold for charity.
October, November and December of BOTTASS 2024 🍑
5$ of each sale of the calendar goes to @Movember and prostate cancer research. Only few days left - calendars are about to be sold out!
Get your calendar now:https://t.co/U9ShR9vlJy pic.twitter.com/Pveex55NNJ
— Valtteri Bottas (@ValtteriBottas) November 27, 2023“I have had questions, people asking me ‘Why did you do that? Why do you want to show your ass?’” Bottas told speedcafe.com at the Las Vegas Grand Prix. “But then when I explained the charity aspect, people got it, and we had so much fun, as you can imagine, taking those pictures.”
Bottas said his mother had some initial reservations, however. “She doesn’t really understand English that well, and she had seen some videos I had posted. She was quite confused and protective, asking me: ‘Are you sure that’s the path you want to go?’ So I explained the charity thing, and it’s fine.”
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