In America, over 150 items from Michael Schumacher’s Formula 1 career fetched a total of around 2.4 million euros at auction
As a racing driver Michael Schumacher was a “force of nature”, writes the auction house Sotheby’s. And even more than a decade after the end of his Formula 1 career, Schumacher still knows how to inspire: 159 items from his career fetched a total of around 2.4 million euros at an auction in the USA.
According to a report by Bild, the items were collectors’ items offered by Sotheby’s as “Full Throttle – the Schumacher Collection”. Various helmets and racing suits went under the hammer, but also shoes, miniature helmets, champagne bottles and caps – all from the collection of a Schumacher fan from Japan.
The largest single item sold was a Schumacher helmet from the 2003 Formula 1 season, which fetched a good 112,000 euros. Although Schumacher won the world championship title for the sixth time in 2003, the only time he wore the helmet that is now being auctioned was at the German Grand Prix in Hockenheim, for sixth place in qualifying and seventh place in the race.
Schumacher cars as perennial favourites at auctions
Sotheby’s had already successfully auctioned a former Schumacher racing car from the 2003 season in the autumn of 2022: the Ferrari F2003-GA clearly exceeded the targeted proceeds of seven to ten million euros at the time and found a new owner for around 15 million euros.
The price of around 6.3 million euros that a bidder had to pay in 2017 for a Ferrari F2001 from the 2001 season pales in comparison. Schumacher had once secured his fourth of a total of seven world championship victories with this vehicle.
Schumacher contested his last Formula One season as a Mercedes driver in 2012. About a year after his retirement, he suffered serious injuries in a skiing accident and has since been cared for by his immediate family.
There are no official details about Schumacher’s current state of health, only hints – for example in the Netflix documentary “Schumacher”, in which his wife Corinna Schumacher and son Mick Schumacher, among others, have their say.
