Formula One star Valtteri Bottas has completed his remarkable 419km cycle to the Singapore Grand Prix this weekend.
The majority of drivers tend to travel to races on private jets, but Bottas, 37, snubbed that option to take his own route across Asia.
The Finnish driver crashed out of Sunday’s chaotic Bahrain Grand Prix, which was held in Malaysia due to security concerns in the Middle East, and he had to cover 419km (260 miles) to get to Singapore.
Bottas began his odyssey shortly after the race finished in Malaysia, and he documented it on social media.
The 37-year-old shared several videos and snaps, and on Wednesday afternoon he posted a selfie of himself on his bike with the caption: ‘419.67km commute,’ alongside the tick emoji.
Bottas also shared a photo of his ‘certificate of completion’ after achieving the feat.
F1 star Valtteri Bottas has completed his incredible 419km journey from Malaysia to Singapore
Bottas began the remarkable odyssey shortly after Sunday’s Grand Prix in Malaysia ended
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Some of his earlier posts had included one which was captioned: ‘Taking the path less travelled (and maybe a bit longer).’
In another post on X, Bottas shared a video of him cycling at night and added: ‘Yea I’m riding to Singapore.
‘On the gravel roads less travelled with my new @canyon_bikes Grail CFR. See you there.’
Bottas travelled alongside his partner Tiffany Cromwell, who is a professional cyclist from Australia, and needed to make it there by Thursday to fulfil his media commitments ahead of this weekend’s race.
The journey was off-road and on gravel, and on Monday, during the second day of Bottas’ cycle, he covered 161.91km across nearly six hours, before he made up 161 km on Tuesday.
It is an unusual way to travel to a race for an F1 driver, yet it is perhaps no surprise that Bottas is undertaking it given he has a history of completing cycling-related endeavours, often with Cromwell.
This included him qualifying for the Gravel World Championships after coming fifth in an off-road qualifying event in the Czech Republic during the summer.
However, given that event comes this weekend, he will be unable to compete.
In the past, he has also taken part in other gravel races, while he is known to be involved with FNLD GRVL, a yearly race in his native Finland.
Bottas has ten wins in his F1 career, but he has endured a difficult 2026 season with Cadillac after spending last year as Mercedes’ reserve driver.
After 16 races, the 37-year-old is yet to score a point and he has failed to finish eight of those.
