F1 star Valtteri Bottas, 32, swam naked in a stream in Aspen, Colorado.
In one day, 5,000 people bought a painting of a Finnish pale donkey and at the same time raised half a million for charity.
– I don’t understand it, he tells Autosport.
Valtteri Bottas Took a few days on vacation in the US with his girlfriend Tiffany Cromwell after the Miami GP. Among other things, the couple went to Aspen where Bottas took a refreshing nude dip in a stream. The pigeon was immortalized by Cromwell and Finn posted the photo without a comment to Instagram.
It soon spread there and after Bottas received the happy and girly shouts of both Alfa Romeo and former teammate Lewis Hamilton, he decided to collaborate with photographer Paul Rebeke for 24 hours to take requests for exclusive signed prints of the photo.
“This is madness”
It ended up selling 5,000 paintings and about half a million donated to charities. Bottas admits that his ass sparked an unexpected interest.
Gharib tells Autosport and continues:
Some have pictures in the living room, kitchen or bedroom.
Bottas has 3.2 million followers on Instagram.
It’s unbelievable what power there is in social media. We got half a million for charity in 24 hours with a picture of someone’s donkey like that. This is madness. I do not understand. But yes, we’re doing a good thing, he says.