26-05-2025
Michael Schumacher's 'crown jewel' F1 car sells for £13,400,000
A Formula 1 car driven by Michael Schumacher in the 2001 Monaco championships has sold for over £13 million.
Schumacher's 'crown jewel' can reach speeds of up to 233 mph and was sold in Monaco for £13,400,000 this weekend.
Because of its history of winning, the motor has been hailed as the 'crown jewel' among all of Schumacher's F1 cars.
The F2001, chassis 211, became the most expensive car driven by the German legend, 56, to be sold at auction.
Previously, the most paid for a car driven by Schumacher was £9,750,000 for his F2003 in 2002.
It was also the fourth most expensive F1 car ever sold – the world record was set in February when a Mercedes 'streamliner' raced by Sir Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio went for £42.75m.
It was previously sold in 2017 for £5.8 million, which was a record at the time for a modern-era Formula 1 car, as reported by Luxury Auto News.
The car allowed Ferrari to secure back-to-back title doubles for the first time in the team's Formula 1 history, marking it as one of the most important of all F1 cars.
It was also the final Ferrari F1 car to win Monaco in a Championship-winning year.
The car was auctioned by RM Sotheby's on May 24 in Monte Carlo to coincide with the Monaco Grand Prix.
A spokesperson for the auctioneers said: 'The only Ferrari chassis raced by Michael Schumacher which won the most prestigious Monaco Grand Prix.
'And also clinched the Formula 1 World Championship in the same season, making this a crown jewel among all Schumacher F1 cars.'
Earlier this year, Schumacher signed a crash helmet to be auctioned off for charity with the help of his wife.
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Schumacher's family have been extremely secretive about his condition, being fiercely protective of his privacy.
The German driver, who still holds several F1 records 13 years after his retirement, sustained a severe brain injury in a skiing accident while visiting the French Alps in December 2013.
He was taken to a hospital in Grenoble and placed in a medically induced coma. After being withdrawn from the coma, he returned home in September 2014 to continue recovering.
A neurosurgery expert said previously that Schumacher – known affectionately as Schumi – may have had a 'private hospital built around him' at home on the shores of Lake Geneva in Switzerland.
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