Scheckter to sell 1979 title-winning Ferrari F1 car

The South African driver received 10 world championship races from 111 begins throughout a topflight profession that spanned from 1972 to 1980.

Scheckter, 74, has entered 12 vehicles from his private assortment into RM Sotheby’s Monaco sale on 11 Might.

The headline lot is his ground-effect 1979 Ferrari 312 T4, the ultimate automobile to assist declare a drivers’ title throughout Enzo Ferrari’s lifetime.

This specific instance, chassis #040, was the fourth of 5 312 T4s constructed; it was campaigned solely by Scheckter and took back-to-back victories within the Belgian and Monaco GPs.

Scheckter additionally led a Ferrari 1-2, forward of team-mate Gilles Villeneuve, on the crew’s residence race in Monza to seal a drivers’ and constructors’ championship double.

He bought the three-lite flat-12-engined automobile from the crew in 1982 and it now carries a pre-sale estimate of £4.45 to five million.

Additionally heading to public sale is the 1971 McLaren M19A aboard which Scheckter made his F1 debut within the following’s 12 months United States GP, the place he recorded a ninth-place end.

Jody Scheckter, Tyrrell 007

Picture by: David Phipps

It was additionally notably raced by Denny Hulme, Jackie Oliver, Mark Donohue, Peter Revson and Brian Redman.

Scheckter can also be promoting a 2008 recreation of the well-known six-wheeled Tyrrell P34, a automobile that, within the interval, he used to win the 1976 Swedish GP – the automobile’s sole triumph – along with scoring 4 podiums.

The Harvey Postlethwaite-penned 1977 Wolf WR1 that Scheckter drove to second within the F1 drivers’ standings additionally options within the public sale alongside a 1973 McLaren M23 and 1975 Tyrrell 007.

Away from F1, he’s promoting two Formulation 2 vehicles (a 1972 McLaren M21; a 1973 Rondel M1) and a 1971 Merlyn Mk21 Formulation 3 racer.

As well as, there’s his 1970 British Formulation Ford championship-winning 1969 Merlyn Mk11a, 1974 Trojan T101 Formulation 5000 title-winner plus 1960 Alfa Romeo Giulietta SZ sportscar that contested the 1961 and 1963 editions of the revered Targa Florio highway race.

Mixed, the 12 tons carry an higher estimate of £10.9m.