The Ferrari pushed to victory by Components One legend Michael Schumacher on the 2001 Monaco Grand Prix has been bought for 15.98m euros (£13.43m) at public sale.
He additionally raced within the F2001 to win the Hungarian Grand Prix and clinch the fourth of his seven world titles in that 12 months.
The automotive was bought by RM Sotheby’s earlier than qualifying for this 12 months’s Monaco Grand Prix and have become the most costly automotive pushed by the German, 56, to be bought at public sale.
It was additionally the fourth most costly F1 automotive ever bought – the world file was set in February when a Mercedes ‘streamliner’ raced by Sir Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio went for £42.75m.
Beforehand, probably the most paid for a automotive pushed by Schumacher was the £9.75m bid for his F2003 again in 2002.
Ferrari will hope to emulate Schumacher’s 2001 success in Monte Carlo with Charles Leclerc second, behind McLaren’s Lando Norris, on the grid for Sunday’s race.
