F1 Driver Valtteri Bottas Shows Off His Comedy Chops In Australian Uber Ad

The Australian Grand Prix is this weekend which means that the Aussie drivers on the grid like McLaren's Oscar Piastri and RB's Daniel Ricciardo are pretty fired up about it.

However, so is Finland's Valtteri Bottas who is pretty much an honorary Australian at this point.

Bottas is dating Australian cyclist Tiffany Cromwell and the Sauber driver has embraced the Down Under lifestyle and look with his trademark stache and mullet.

So, he's the perfect TV pitchman, and ahead of the Grand Prix, Uber had him do a commercial that is running in Australia. Bottas showed off some serious comedic chops.

First of all, the word "budgie smuggler" is never not hilarious.

I thought Bottas killed it. Great delivery, and some great timing with the little bug spray bit.

And some serious props to whoever wrote that because that was funnier than almost every Super Bowl commercial we saw this year and probably last year two.

It shouldn't surprise us that Bottas has a great sense of humor. I mean, this is the guy who sold a calendar full of pictures of his bare ass for charity and donated the proceeds to charity.

The guy is funny.

But getting an athlete to try their hand at acting — especially comedic — is always a mixed bag. Sure, you find some with some decent comedic ability, like Peyton Manning or even Patrick Mahomes, but then you run into others who… well, they just don't have it.

I guess that shouldn't be a shocker. Athletes are too busy working on their craft during their youth and aren't inside listening watching Mel Brooks movies or listening to Albert Brooks records (there's always a Brooks involved in everyone's comedy upbringing).

That's all well and good but it leaves you with what we saw just this week from Wisconsin QB Mabrey Mettauer.

Someone paid him money for that…

Well, at least Uber Australia knows their money was well spent with Valtteri Bottas.

Now, let's see if Bottas and Sauber can get things together in Australia after the first two races saw the team struggling both on track and in the pits which has kept them from registering a point through two races.