F1 News: Valtteri Bottas Receives "A Cheeky Look At Bu**s In Art" From His Secret Santa

It has been 'a cracking Christmas' for Bottas.

Given Sauber driver Valtteri Bottas's tryst with his rear ends that helped raise more than a hundred thousand dollars in charity, his Secret Santa Max Verstappen gave him the perfect "cracking Christmas" present, which I'm sure he would cherish for a long time to come. 

Bottas has gained huge popularity lately for posing naked for photos. The images, mostly of his bare backside, were put together to create a calendar called ‘BOTT**S’ 2024. This was done to raise money for charity, a cause so noble that people helped the F1 driver raise $150,000 [£118,500].

Now with Christmas around the corner, what better gift could there have been for Verstappen to gift the ten-time Grand Prix winner, than to send bare images of him, carefully stuck in a book called ‘Museum Bums: A Cheeky Look at Bu**s in Art'?

The three-time world champion carefully substituted certain images with a compilation of Bottas' notable moments from his calendar. As the Sauber driver went through the creation, he was surprisingly able to guess his Secret Santa correctly. 

Here's the video where Bottas unpacks his gift and offers a modest reaction to his present.

Valtteri's Secret Santa gift this year *might* just land him on the naughty list 😜#F1 @ValtteriBottas pic.twitter.com/CbVnJw0md4

— Formula 1 (@F1) December 18, 2023

After he unwrapped the book, he read the hilarious title ‘A Simply Lovely Look At Bu**s In Art,’ which had a clue to his Secret Santa. He then goes on to read Verstappen's Christmas greeting, which read, “Have a cracking Christmas.”

Bottas looks through his photos and realizes the creative efforts put in by his Secret Santa. Surprisingly though, he figured out that Verstappen was his Secret Santa, mostly through that one big clue.

'Simply Lovely' is a term often used by the Dutchman, so it was quite easy for Bottas to figure out who his Secret Santa was. In a message to him, Bottas replied:

“Well done Max. It’s really creative, so thank you very much. Merry Christmas.”