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Schumacher’s iconic Ferrari F1 to go up for auction in Hong Kong

Schumacher’s iconic Ferrari F1 to go up for auction in Hong Kong

Sotheby’s auction house in Hong Kong will put up for sale, between April 3 and 12, a race-winning Ferrari F1-2000 driven to victory at the 2000 Brazilian Grand Prix by German driver Michael Schumacher.

The vehicle will be on display from April 1 to 6 to celebrate 50 years of Sotheby’s in Asia.

This vehicle was decisive in Schumacher’s first victory with the Maranello team.

It represents an opportunityrare to own a piece of history”, collects the auction house on its website.

It is the single-seater with the chassis number 198, equipped with a redesigned 90-degree V-10 engine that could develop about 780 horsepower through a seven-speed gearbox.

The example of Ferrari’s golden age began as Schumacher’s replacement vehicle in 2000, with which he achieved victory at the Brazilian Grand Prix and pole position at the Spanish and Monaco Grand Prix.

The last time the motorist contested a race with this sports car was at the Austrian Grand Prix, where it came to an abrupt end when Ricardo Zonta eliminated him on the first lap, so the vehicle was never used again.

It was later rebuilt by Ferrari to become an iconic piece in a collector’s garage, even though Schumacher’s prototypes have a history of reaching big numbers.

The German racing icon’s car is expected to fetch an astronomical price after his 2003 title-winning car went up for auction in November for US$14.8 million (13.667 million euros), becoming the Formula 1 car of the It was the most expensive modern ever sold before.

Source: Gestion

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