In the year 2003, Michael Schumacher was at the peak of his success. He had just won two world championships with the Benetton team and one after the other with Ferrari,
way to overcome Juan Manuel Fangio’s five and his own seven. He had managed to end Ferrari’s losing streak, which lasted 21 years during which the house had failed to take a world title, despite drivers like Prost, Mansell, Berger, Alesi, Reutemann or Johansson.
The emblematic Ferrari of Formula 1 that accompanied the Kaiser in those legendary races, the F2003-GA Chassis 229, has just been sold in Geneva and has smashed the auction, priced at 14.6 million Swiss francs, about 15 million dollars.
With that car, Schumacher won five crucial races in the masterful 2003 season and took the Spanish, Austrian, Canadian, Italian and American Grands Prix. It also enabled him to take the podium at the Monaco and France Grands Prix.
Estimates made by auction house Sotheby’s ranged between 7.5 and 9.5 million Swiss francs, so the price reached, net of taxes or company commission, was
confirms the great interest among collectors. Sotheby’s stated that this is the highest price achieved by a modern F1 car, following the sale in 2017 of another also driven by Schumacher in the 2001 season. Schumacher contested a total of nine races with this Ferrari F2003GA Chasis 229 , which included Advances, allowed it to improve its aerodynamics and made it one of the historic cars of the Ferrari team’s golden age.
The auction coincided with the release of a new documentary about Schumacher’s personality and history. The audiovisual was released in cinemas at the end of 2021 and is now broadcast for free on the RTL television network.
Only his close family and friends know his health since the accident
who skied in 2013. Considered by many to be the greatest runner of all time, the world was thrown into shock when he was prone to traumatic brain injury. Former Ferrari CEO Jean Todt recently told Sport BILD that Michael is doing well given the circumstances. “It’s as good as it gets,” he said, touched by the great interest it continues to arouse among Formula 1 fans.
“Not only in Germany, all over the world they continue to think about him a lot and his followers should know that he is in good hands,” said the family friend.
That remains a strict secretDiscuss his status and prefer to be remembered as he was in the best moments of his career, behind the wheel of the 2003 F2003-GA Chassis 229.
Source: La Verdad
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