{"id":8433,"date":"2023-11-30T23:26:05","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T04:26:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/f1-driver-bottas-raises-150k-for-charity-with-nude-calendar\/30\/11\/2023\/"},"modified":"2023-11-30T23:26:05","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T04:26:05","slug":"f1-driver-bottas-raises-150k-for-charity-with-nude-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/f1-driver-bottas-raises-150k-for-charity-with-nude-calendar\/30\/11\/2023\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 driver Bottas raises $150k for charity with nude calendar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Formula One driver Valtteri Bottas has raised $150,000 for men&#8217;s health charity Movember after a &#8216;Bottass 2024&#8217; calendar featuring photographs of him baring his backside sped off the shelves.<\/p>\n<p>An initial run of 10,000, with \u20ac5 ($5.46) from each going to prostate cancer research, swiftly sold out with more printed.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/39011436\/lewis-hamilton-reveals-extent-self-doubt-2023-season\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a name=\"&amp;lpos=story:editorspicks:inline:2\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/39004334\/the-mind-blowing-stats-underline-verstappen-dominance\" class=\"img-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"><img style=\"display:block\" class=\"lazyload\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=75&resize=75 75w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=100&resize=100 100w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=150&resize=150 150w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=240&resize=240 240w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=320&resize=320 320w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=500&resize=500 500w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=640&resize=640 640w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=800&resize=800 800w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=1024&resize=1024 1024w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=1280&resize=1280 1280w, https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?w=1600&resize=1600 1600w\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i2.wp.com\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;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,&#8221; Bottas <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C0Q5M4XCiSg\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">announced via social media<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Final figures to be calculated in the next days, but we are talking around $150k of funds raised!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>That shot proved a hit on Instagram and was sold for charity.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have had questions, people asking me &#8216;Why did you do that? Why do you want to show your ass?'&#8221; Bottas told speedcafe.com at the Las Vegas Grand Prix this month.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline inline-photo full\">\n<figure><picture><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F1130%2Fr1259968_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=570&amp;format=jpg, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F1130%2Fr1259968_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=1140&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(min-width: 376px)\"><source data-srcset=\"https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F1130%2Fr1259968_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=375, https:\/\/a2.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2023%2F1130%2Fr1259968_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg&amp;w=750&amp;cquality=40&amp;format=jpg 2x\" media=\"(max-width: 375px)\"><img class=\" lazyload lazyload\" data-image-container=\".inline-photo\" height=\"320\" width=\"570\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption class=\"photoCaption\">Alfa Romeo&#8217;s Valtteri Bottas finished 15th in the 2023 Driver&#8217;s Championship.\u00a0<cite>Kym Illman\/Getty Images<\/cite><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>&#8220;But then when I explained the charity aspect, people got it, and we had so much fun, as you can imagine, taking those pictures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Bottas said his mother had some initial reservations, however.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She doesn&#8217;t really understand English that well, and she had seen some videos I had posted. She was quite confused and protective, asking me &#8216;Are you sure that&#8217;s the path you want to go?&#8217; So I explained the charity thing, and it&#8217;s fine.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.co.uk\/f1\/story\/_\/id\/39012309\/f1-driver-bottas-raises-150k-charity-nude-calendar\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Formula One driver Valtteri Bottas has raised $150,000 for men&rsquo;s health charity Movember after a &lsquo;Bottass 2024&rsquo; calendar featuring photographs of him<br \/><button class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/sport\/f1-driver-bottas-raises-150k-for-charity-with-nude-calendar\/30\/11\/2023\/\">Read More &rsaquo;<\/a><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13991,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[3261,2039,3263,82,432,3262,3260],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8433"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8435,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8433\/revisions\/8435"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newssprinters.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}