You don’t have a fraction of the expertise that Michael Schumacher held in his left pinky finger, however when you’ve got sufficient cash you should buy the automobile he used to win his remaining races. Preventing tooth-and-nail with eventual champion Fernando Alonso in 2006, Schumi used this chassis as a device to win the San Marino, European, United States, French, and German Grands Prix.
The long-lasting 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 one who hasn’t ever received something, have a possibility to bid on it.
You’re not simply shopping for a automobile, you’re shopping for an vital 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 acquired to see Fernando Alonso elevate 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 purple overalls for therefore lengthy at that time I type of assumed you had been no less than a bit of boring and a possibly a bit evil for cheering them on. That stated, the Scuderia beneath the tutelage of Jean Todt, developed possibly one of the best profitable technique in F1 historical past. They constructed your entire workforce round Schumacher, utilizing his distinctive mix of expertise and ruthlessness, mixed with Phillip Morris cash, to virtually shut everybody else out of the game.
In keeping with the promoting public sale home, and Ferrari’s Classiche certification, this automobile retains all of its authentic “numbers matching” elements, together with engine quantity 056F-197 and gearbox 657-11. It’s doable that Ferrari’s FXX program would get this automobile operating and driving for you once more if you happen to requested properly and gave them a clean verify. However I can’t stress sufficient that you simply’ll by no means have the ability to 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 amount of cash can get you an F1 win. In case you want proof of that, simply have a look at Lance Stroll.
There’s no phrase on what this automobile is estimated to promote for, and it’s a non-public “sealed” sale, so the ultimate gavel quantity won’t ever be made public, however you’ll be able to wager it’s within the excessive seven figures, if not eight. I don’t have any delusions that I’d have the ability to extract the type 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!