F1 megastar Valtteri Bottas completes Ironman triathlon – without leaving his dwelling

Valtteri Bottas is no longer going to be in F1 next season, nonetheless the Finnish megastar is already taking on quiet challenges – and that now entails triathlon.

Bottas has been very lively on the biking scene in most modern years as a regular participant in prime gravel events, on the total alongside accomplice and official cyclist Tiffany Cromwell.

And now the 35-yr-aged aged Williams, Mercedes and now Sauber megastar is clearly coming into into swim/bike/lunge in a giant design, as proved by his most modern high-profile disclose.

Bottas managed to entire the paunchy 140.6-mile Ironman distance this week without leaving his comprise dwelling – good pointless to affirm must it’s seemingly you’ll own the services to enact that!

Bottas toes the toll road

That it’s good to additionally gaze the total thing on Valtteri’s Twitter internet page (or no longer less than the edited highlights), nonetheless safe to inform he turned into once as flamboyant as ever as he leapt into his villa’s yard pool to kick off the day. After he’d loved some shadowy espresso and snacks for breakfast.

Once the 2.4-mile swim turned into once entire, Bottas jumped out and headed indoors to grab on the 112-mile bike leg on his Peloton and at this stage he regarded as if it would be feeling ravishing sturdy. A couple of hours later [including a brief pitstop for a rice lunch], and all he had left turned into once the minute matter of a 26.2-mile marathon lunge. So on to the treadmill he went.

As with any triathletes, the chance of an yarn blow-up on the lunge turned into once constantly gift for Bottas – and he clearly started to feel the danger the deeper in he went. He stated, reasonably simply, “it hurts”.

Bottas despite the incontrovertible fact that is clearly in unbelievable form – F1 drivers must be – and he pushed on thru to entire the yarn take a look at of endurance. Thanks partly to about a phone help from triathlon tale Jan Frodeno – no longer a depraved source of guidelines to be shapely. The final time for the F1 megastar, per his socials, 10 hours and 57 minutes.

Will we take a look at up on Valtteri doing an trusty Ironman plod for the length of the reach future? It would seem a decent bet as he could also smartly own a little beyond regular time on his fingers in 2025 with Sauber (almost in the present day to change into Audi in 2026) deciding to signal Nico Hulkenberg and Gabriel Bortoleto to maintain their seats on the grid.

Triathlon stars reply

Now not surprisingly, a shapely few triathlon stars had been impressed by what Bottas finished, with US ace Ben Kanute commenting: “The mustache for sure obtained him thru. I’d allege this is the hardest technique to gather an Ironman carried out 😮🔥”

Yet one more US megastar – Paris 2024 Olympian Taylor Spivey – turned into once one other interested viewer, commenting: “Right here is amazingly spectacular/psychotic”.

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