Michael Schumacher’s record-breaking F1 Ferrari that ‘defined his legacy’ is tipped to sell for an eye-watering sum

MICHAEL Schumacher’s astir palmy and last F1 Ferrari is acceptable to merchantability for a whopping £11.5million.

The 220mph 2006 Ferrari 248 F1 was driven by the legendary racer successful his past play with the manufacturer.

During this campaign, Schumacher had 5 Grand Prix victories and made 8 podiums.

The wins featured astatine the San Marino, European, US, French, and German Grands Prix.

The centrifugal was 1 of the 55-year-old's astir palmy rides during his clip with Scuderia Ferrari.

The car was besides Ferrari’s archetypal V8-powered F1 conveyance since 1964, aft motor regulations were brought into the 2006 season.

Not lone does the conveyance boast an awesome fig of accolades, but it was besides the conveyance Schumacher surpassed Ayrton Senna’s rod presumption record.

The history-making centrifugal was purchased straight from Ferrari successful 2007 by the existent owner.

The conveyance is not lone a captious portion of F1 past it is besides a cornerstone of Schumacher’s legacy.

The car is present heading nether the hammer, with bidding ending connected 19 November.

It volition besides beryllium displayed successful New York City from November 8 to 20.

Shelby Myers, caput of backstage Sales astatine RM Sotheby’s, stated: “In the satellite of motorsport, Michael Schumacher’s sanction is accurately utilized to specify the pinnacle of racing—synonymous with greatness, which we often perceive referenced.

“There are, however, cars that Schumacher drove and possibly won a contention oregon 2 in, and past determination are the fewer cars that genuinely specify his legacy, specified arsenic chassis 254.

“When we peel backmost the layers, precise seldom does a Schumacher-era car transportation arsenic overmuch value arsenic this one.

“My nonrecreational acumen involves determining what immoderate of the world’s genuinely large cars are, particularly those which we judge volition beryllium among the astir important of each clip for generations to come.

“There is nary question that we see the contention variants of immoderate shaper the astir sought-after.

“This has been existent for each epoch of car collecting.

“As we triangulate what genuinely defines greatness, intrinsic characteristics specified arsenic shaper marque equity, astonishing aesthetic beauty, associated racing drivers, implicit rarity, important ownership provenance, and truthful distant each origin into the equation.

“Perhaps the azygous astir important defining diagnostic among these elite contention cars is their racing record.

“Chassis 254 is astatine the precise apical of the pyramid.

“Never earlier has thing carrying the Schumacher sanction travel to nationalist merchantability with much wins oregon podium finishes.

“In fact, determination is lone 1 different chassis with much wins than chassis 254.

“In his past play with Ferrari, this car defined the bequest of possibly the top operator successful history, competing with 1 of the astir storied automotive brands of each time.

“It genuinely does not get better.”

Schumacher suffered a terrible encephalon wounded successful a skiing mishap successful 2013.

He present lives a backstage beingness successful Switzerland, arsenic reported connected Luxury Auto News.