Michael Schumacher car auction: F1 legend Michael Schumacher’s first Formula One world championship car, Ferrari F1-2000 is set to go under the hammer in April. The car, which Schumacher drove to victory in the Brazilian Grand Prix, will be auctioned in Hong Kong in an anniversary sale. The Scuderia collected a total of 170 points and scored ten race victories alongside ten pole positions to win the World Constructors’ Championship, with Schumacher winning the Formula 1 drivers’ title in 2000. Follow Formula 1 LIVE Updates with InsideSport.IN.
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Ferrari F1-2000 chassis 198 is the vehicle in dispute. The German drove it during qualifying for the Brazilian Grand Prix, beginning from third place and eventually crossing the finish line in the first place. It was initially employed as the team’s backup vehicle. In addition, Schumacher put the vehicle on pole position for the Spanish Grand Prix. Although he was in the lead for the majority of the race, a refueling issue and a delayed puncture sent him down to fifth.
The Monaco Grand Prix was Schumacher’s next race at the wheel of chassis 198. He had the race’s pole position at the outset and once led the pack by 35 seconds.
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“RM Sotheby’s has demonstrated that it has an unrivaled track record in bringing the most important Formula 1 cars to auction; a track record which is most closely associated with selling important Ferraris driven by Michael Schumacher, the greatest Ferrari F1 driver of all time,” global head of Private Sales at RM Sotheby’s, Shelby Myers said.
“2022 saw us sell the famed F2003-GA chassis no. 229, at Sotheby’s Luxury Week sale in Geneva for CHF 14,630,000, making it the most valuable Formula 1 car of the modern era ever sold. The previous record was held by another ex-Michael Schumacher Ferrari, an F2001 which sold for $7,504,000 at Sotheby’s evening contemporary art sale in New York on 16 November 2017”, Myers added.
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