Michael Schumacher’s 2002 Ferrari F2002 headed to public sale block
A legendary Components One automotive is heading to public sale, and a portion of the proceeds will go to an exquisite trigger, Michael Schumacher’s Maintain Combating basis. Schumacher’s 2002 Ferrari F2002, the identical automotive that helped the German racer win his fifth championship, will likely be auctioned at RM Sotheby’s Abu Dhabi occasion.
Schumacher, F1’s most embellished racing driver, drove the F2002 for the primary portion of the 2002 F1 season. Particularly, the automotive proven right here is chassis no. 219. That season, Schumacher received three Grand Prixes on this precise automotive and completed in first or second in each race. Schumacher clinched the championship with six races to go, making it the quickest any driver has ever locked down the World Drivers Title. That very same 12 months, Ferrari additionally secured the Constructor’s Championship with the F2002.
Michael Schumacher’s Ferrari F2002 F1 race automotive
For the rest of the season, this automotive was used as a take a look at automotive, and Ferrari retired it after the season. Since then, it is moved to quite a few completely different non-public collections across the globe, per the consignment info. Nonetheless, the subsequent purchaser can even assist an ideal trigger. A proportion of the proceeds of the sale will go to the Maintain Combating basis, which the Schumacher household arrange following Michael Schumacher’s head harm in 2013. The muse goals to proceed his charitable work for social and cultural advantages. A snowboarding accident has left him disabled at his residence in Sweden. Well being updates are few and much between, but it surely’s understood the previous F1 star can’t stroll or converse.
Nonetheless, Schumacher stays essentially the most profitable F1 driver ever. He amassed 91 Grand Prix wins and 7 championships throughout his lively years.
Certainly, the F2002 will promote for a really massive sum of cash; Schumacher’s 2001 F2001 F1 automotive bought for $7.5 million in 2017. Fortunately, there’s time to mow just a few lawns and arrange a lemonade stand. The public sale takes place on Nov. 30.
