Michael Schumacher‘s Ferrari Formula One automobile that received the 2001 Monaco and Hungarian grand prix races was bought for $18.17 million, in accordance with RM Sotheby’s.
Selling forward of qualifying in Monaco on Saturday, the F2001 automobile that the legendary German driver used en path to that 12 months’s world title turned the most costly F1 automobile pushed by Schumacher to be bought at public sale.
The $18.17 million price ticket topped the $13.2 million a bidder paid for Schumacher’s 2003 Ferrari F2003 in 2022. It additionally turned the fourth-most costly F1 automobile ever bought. The world file sits at $52.52 million, which occurred earlier this 12 months for a Mercedes W196 streamliner that was pushed by Formula One legends Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss within the Nineteen Fifties.
Schumacher, now 56, drove the F2001 Ferrari in his fifth and ultimate Monaco Grand Prix win, which he adopted up with a victory on the Hungarian Grand Prix. The latter win clinched Schumacher’s fourth F1 world title.
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