Method One star Valtteri Bottas is about to be banned from releasing nude pictures in a brutal command from his new boss.
The 35-year-old has rejoined Mercedes forward of the 2025 season as a reserve driver after spending the previous three seasons with Kick Sauber, The Solar studies.
Bottas isn’t any stranger to stripping off, having proven off his bottom in Netflix documentary Drive to Survive and he has posted snaps of himself swimming bare in a river on-line.
The Finnish icon additionally launched a nude calendar final yr, hilariously titling it “Botass 2024”.
All money made was donated to Prostate Most cancers Analysis and he reportedly raised $150,000 for the nice trigger.
However Bottas now must maintain his equipment on as Mercedes chief Toto Wolff advised it’s time for him to rein it in.
“We are Mercedes, so maybe the nude calendar is not on anymore,” he instructed R365.
“So we have said that, but we need to keep him authentic.”
Wolff added with a smile: “If he wants to keep the ugly mullet, then he should.”
Bottas’ Mercedes return is a homecoming for the veteran, who twice got here second within the standings to teammate Lewis Hamilton in 2019 and 2020.
He has spent the final three seasons with Alfa Romeo and Sauber respectively, going from sporting nothing to scoring nothing throughout the entire of final time period.
George Russell and Andrea Kimi Antonelli are on the grid for Mercedes.
The Italian is about to debut on the Australian Grand Prix and grow to be the third-youngest driver in Method One historical past at 18 years and 203 days previous
