5 Most Expensive F1 Cars Sold At Auction – Featuring 2 Mercedes’ And 2 Ferraris’

Here’s Autojosh rundown of 5 most expensive F1 cars sold at auction, featuring two (2) Ferraris, two (2) Mercedes and a McLaren.

Last week, Lewis Hamilton’s first-winning ‘Silver Arrow’, a 2013 Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 W04, sold for a whopping $18.8 million at a RM Sotheby’s auction block during the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix.

RM Sotheby’s notes that it is the only Mercedes F1 vehicle from the modern era not owned by Mercedes, by team principal and Chief Executive Officer Toto Wolff, or by Hamilton himself.

“Lewis Hamilton’s first championship Mercedes F1 car took yet another pole position, this time breaking records as the most expensive F1 car ever sold,​” said Mercedes-Benz while announcing the record sale.

While the $18.8 million price tag makes it the most expensive modern F1 car sold at auction, it still trails the amount paid in 2013 for a 1954 Mercedes W196R during a Bonhams auction.

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Here’s Autojosh rundown of 5 most expensive F1 cars sold at auction, featuring two (2) Ferraris, two (2) Mercedes and a McLaren.

5. 2010 McLaren MP4-25A

Price : $5,699,000 ($5.6 Million)

Sold: 2021

Driver : Lewis Hamilton

Auction: Special RM Sotheby’s auction held at Silverstone

4. 2002 Ferrari F2002

Price : $6,643,750 ($6.6 Million)

Sold: 2019

Driver : Michael Schumacher

Auction: RM Sotheby’s auction

3. 2001 Ferrari F2001

Price : $7,504,000 ($7.5 Million)

Sold: 2017

Driver : Michael Schumacher

Auction: RM Sotheby’s New York auction

2. 2013 Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 W04

Price : $18,815,000 ($18.8 million)

Sold: 2023

Driver : Lewis Hamilton

Auction: RM Sotheby’s auction in Las Vegas

1. 1954 Mercedes W196R

Price : $29,650,095 ($29.6 Million)

Sold: 2013

Driver : Juan Manuel Fangio

Auction: Bonhams at the Goodwood Festival of Speed

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