A pair of Michael Jordan’s sneakers from the 1998 playoffs; Leo Messi’s match-worn number 10 shirt from the Qatar World Cup; Virat Kohli’s 2011 trailblazing World Cup winning cricket bat; Michael Schumacher’s championship-winning F1-2000 Ferrari – these are some of the things we wish we could own. Well, as it turns we can. Well, the last one at least.
Auction house RM Sotheby’s is auctioning off one of Michael Schumacher World Championship-winning Ferrari F1-2000s – specifically the one that claimed victory at the 2000 Brazilian Grand Prix and secured pole positions at the Monaco and Spanish Grand Prixes in the same year.
There are few achievements in Formula 1more legendary than Michael Schumacher’s six championships with Maranello; a partnership that witnessed an unprecedented period of dominance that paired the sport’s most historic team with a driver who rates as one of the greatest of all time.
This Formula 1 car represents a key chassis that helped Michael Schumacher achieve his first World Championship as a Ferrari driver and Ferrari’s first World title as a team for 21 years.
The dawn of the new millennium was Schumacher’s fifth season with Ferrari, but it was the season which saw the Maranello team provide the great German driver with his first Championship-winning car as a Ferrari driver—the legendary F1-2000.
The F1-2000 car presents the opportunity to return it to track use with Ferrari’s Clienti program and is undoubtedly an exceptionally rare opportunity to acquire a significant piece of Formula One history.
The iconic F1 car will auctioned as part of a multi-category sale in Hong Kong to celebrate 50 years of Sotheby’s in Asia.