Valtteri Bottas has been in Method 1 for some time now, having first raced within the sport for Williams Racing again in 2013 with Williams Racing. Now, after a wildly profitable stint at Mercedes and a change to Alfa Romeo, the Finnish driver is attempting his hand at two-wheeled racing and spent his summer time break competing in a 100-mile gravel race in Colorado.

Bottas, who has ten F1 race wins and 1,792 championship factors to his title, spent the previous weekend within the U.S., competing within the SBT Grvl occasion in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. The course covers 100 miles and contains greater than 6,500 toes of elevation achieve – it’s no informal Sunday journey.

Through the remaining race on Sunday, Bottas joined greater than 900 gravel riders taking over the occasion’s Blue Course, which is one step under the 140-mile circuit the professionals race on. The Finnish racer managed to finish the course in a formidable 5 hours, 17 minutes, and 29 seconds, averaging a velocity of 18.92 mph over the 100 miles.

The end result was sufficient to earn Bottas twentieth place out of the 935 riders that entered, and he ranked eighth in his 30 to 39 age bracket. That’s a mighty spectacular end result for the Finn.

For his entry, Bottas turned to a particular model of Canyon’s Grail gravel bike. The mannequin, referred to as the Grail CF SL VB77 encompasses a particular blue paint scheme and each top-end part you could possibly dream of – together with a carbon body, carbon wheels, and Sram’s glorious XPLR eTap wi-fi groupset.

From the seems to be of Bottas’ Instagram over the race weekend, it appeared like he was having lots of enjoyable competing on the tough stuff. On Friday, the Alfa Romeo racer entered the Hillclimb occasion at SBT Grvl, turning as much as the two.2-mile climb dressed as Duffman from “The Simpsons.”

Taking to Instagram after the occasion, Bottas stated “Duff Man rode the @sbtgrvl HLL CLMB. Duffman received the costume competitors

“[Duffman] received quantity of his weight (and mates) of @denverbeerco beer and [Duffman] donated all of it to the folks attending @sbtgrvl as spectators or rivals. Cheers!”

I think about that will need to have been an odd expertise for the opposite riders who turned as much as compete within the hill climb, seeing Bottas dressed as Duffman handing out beers to everybody on the occasion. The Finn actually resides his greatest life proper now.