F1: One in all Michael Schumacher's Ferraris has offered for nearly $15 million at public sale

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The Ferrari wherein Michael Schumacher gained his sixth Components One world title has smashed public sale information to turn into the most costly F1 automobile in historical past.

The F2003-GA offered for $14.9 million in a Sotheby’s public sale in Geneva, Switzerland on Wednesday, nearly doubling the earlier report for an F1 automobile when Schumacher’s F2001 fetched $7.5 million in 2017.

In keeping with Sotheby’s, Schumacher recorded 5 race wins, two podiums and three pole positions within the F2003-GA. In that season, the German completed simply two factors forward of Kimi Räikkönen within the championship standings to say the sixth of his seven world titles.

“Components One automobiles of this high quality and provenance not often come to market, and this explicit automobile is the very best of the very best,” mentioned Augustin Sabatié-Garat, Director of Gross sales EMEA at Sotheby’s.

“We're delighted that it has achieved a world report value for such a automobile, because it really displays the significance of this chassis.”

The automobile is able to be pushed after Schumacher’s son, Mick – who races for the Haas F1 crew – accomplished a shakedown in it at Ferrari’s Fiorano take a look at monitor forward of the sale.

By claiming his sixth world title, Schumacher handed Juan Manuel Fangio’s report tally after which went on to win his seventh title the next 12 months – a quantity Lewis Hamilton matched in 2020.

The 53-year-old Schumacher continues to bear rehabilitation from a mind harm sustained in a snowboarding accident in December 2013, along with his household maintaining updates on his well being to a minimal.