You don’t have a fraction of the expertise that Michael Schumacher held in his left pinky finger, however if you have enough money you should buy the automobile he used to win his ultimate races. Fighting tooth-and-nail with eventual champion Fernando Alonso in 2006, Schumi used this chassis as a instrument to win the San Marino, European, United States, French, and German Grands Prix.
The enduring 2006 Ferrar 248 F1 was Schumacher’s Scuderia swansong, and this precise chassis was the one he used to surpass Ayrton Senna’s all-time pole place file. This automobile marked the top of an period when Schumacher retired from his spot as king of the Tifosi. And now you, a no person who hasn’t ever gained something, have an opportunity to bid on it.
You’re not simply shopping for a automobile, you’re shopping for an essential piece of the game’s best dynasty.
I used to be not a Ferrari fan within the mid-2000s. For one factor I lived in Spain and received to see Fernando Alonso raise the spirits of a complete nation together with his back-to-back ’05 and ’06 championships. For an additional factor, Schumacher had been profitable in pink overalls for thus lengthy at that time I type of assumed you have been no less than somewhat boring and a perhaps a bit evil for cheering them on. That mentioned, the Scuderia underneath the tutelage of Jean Todt, developed perhaps one of the best profitable technique in F1 historical past. They constructed the whole crew round Schumacher, utilizing his distinctive mix of expertise and ruthlessness, mixed with Phillip Morris cash, to virtually shut everybody else out of the game.
Based on the promoting public sale home, and Ferrari’s Classiche certification, this automobile retains all of its authentic “numbers matching” parts, together with engine quantity 056F-197 and gearbox 657-11. It’s attainable that Ferrari’s FXX program would get this automobile working and driving for you once more when you requested properly and gave them a clean test. However I can not stress sufficient that you simply’ll by no means be capable of ship a lap time on this automobile even near what Schumacher might. You aren’t him, and also you by no means will probably be. No sum of money can get you an F1 win. In case you want proof of that, just look at Lance Stroll.
There’s no word on what this car is estimated to sell for, and it’s a personal “sealed” sale, so the ultimate gavel quantity won’t ever be made public, however you possibly can guess it’s within the excessive seven figures, if not eight. I don’t have any delusions that I’d be capable of extract the form of efficiency from this automobile that it deserves, and I do know I’ll by no means be like Mike. That’s why I’m not bidding. Good luck!