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A CLASSIC Ferrari which won the Le Mans 24 hr contention successful 1965 has sold for £29million.
The 1964 250 LM has present go 1 of the most costly Ferraris ever sold.
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It competed 3 times astatine some Le Mans and the 24 Hours of Daytona contention earlier retiring successful 1970.
The car past spent the adjacent 55 years astatine the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum successful the US.
Now it has been auctioned by RM Sotheby’s successful a Paris merchantability to an unnamed purchaser — breaking the £21million pre-sale estimated value.
US contention operator Masten Gregory and German-born Jochen Rindt won the Le Mans race successful the car by 5 laps.
It was the lone “privateer-entered” Ferrari to triumph the French race.
The astir costly Ferrari ever sold was a 1963 250 GTO, which fetched £56million successful a backstage merchantability successful 2018.
An RM Sotheby's spokesperson said: "In short, chassis 5893 is the NART Ferrari.
"It would crown astir immoderate sporting collection, having claimed the eventual accomplishment for a Ferrari, and so immoderate racing sports car of its calibre—victory astatine the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s astir important sports car race, barroom none.
"Chassis 5893 is simply a bona fide legend, wrong the realms of Ferrari, Luigi Chinetti's NART team, and Le Mans."
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