Mercedes W04 chassis #4 was campaigned by Hamilton – who joined the Three-Pointed Star for the 2013 season as team-mate to Nico Rosberg to finish his six-year spell at McLaren – in 14 of the 19 rounds.
Most notably, Hamilton – who would win six of his seven titles with Mercedes – transformed pole place to win the Hungarian GP forward of Lotus driver Kimi Raikkonen and Pink Bull’s Sebastian Vettel.
Of the additional 4 podiums he bagged to complete fourth within the drivers’ championship, three have been scored (third place in Malaysia, China and Belgian) aboard this automobile.
Chassis #4 grew to become the primary Hamilton-driven Mercedes F1 automobile to be provided for public sale, with famend public sale home RM Sotheby’s bringing the gavel down in Las Vegas on Saturday for $18.8mn.
The automobile carried a pre-sale estimate of $10-15mn.
The public sale was held on the Wynn’s Awakening Theater and hosted by TV presenter and author James Corden.
At 39 heaps, it was a comparatively small sale. A Ferrari race swimsuit believed to have been worn by Schumacher for his 2003 Italian GP victory fetched $102,000.
A 1990 Ferrari F40 GT, initially owned by the designer of the Mugello circuit and campaigned within the Italian GT sequence, didn’t hit its reserve so didn’t promote on the night time.
A duplicate Lando Norris was flogged for $10,800 to lift cash for St. Jude Youngsters’s Hospital
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Lewis Hamilton, Mercedes AMG
Offered for $29.6m in 2013 on the Goodwood Competition of Pace, the document value for an F1 automobile was achieved by the 1954 Mercedes W196R during which Juan Manuel Fangio claimed his second of 5 titles.
The costliest competitors automobile ever bought was additionally a Mercedes, with an unraced 300SLR ‘Uhlenahut Coupe’ sportscar prototype altering arms in a non-public deal brokered by RM Sotheby’s.
Mercedes put the $143m raised into establishing a worldwide instructional and analysis scholarship programme for younger folks that specialises in environmental science and decarbonisation.
On the Abu Dhabi season finale later this month, Bonhams will auctioon the 1978 championship-winning Lotus 79 (additionally chassis #4) as raced by Mario Andretti. It’s forecasted to promote for as a lot as $9.5m.
Raikkonen’s 2006 McLaren MP4/21 and a 2001 Ferrari present automobile additionally lead the lot record.
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