With just 106 units built, including prototypes and racing versions, the F1 is also one of the rarest production cars on the market. As a result, they have massive stickers at public auctions. As of June 2021, the world’s most expensive F1 is a 1998 LM variant that sold for $ 19.8 million in 2019.
That could change soon as the lowest-mileage F1 on the market is set to go under the hammer at the 2021 Pebble Beach auctions, August 14-15. The car in question is a 1995 specimen that was just … wait … 241 miles (388 km) driven. Yes, that’s not a typo, this supercar has been driven less than 10 miles a year since it left the factory. Amazing, isn’t it?
A well documented and fully original example, this F1 is chassis no. 29th and 25th of this type delivered. It’s the only F1 in Creighton brown and has a two-tone interior that combines light tan and dark brown leather. The car was delivered to Japan and its first owner turned it into a luxurious garage queen.
It finds its way to the US in exceptional factory condition and has been meticulously serviced on public roads without doing much. The car is so immaculate that it still wears its original, date-coded Goodyear Eagle F1 tires.
Not only that, but also all of the original accessories, including the McLaren service booklet, the instruction manual, the FACOM tool box, the titanium tool kit, the matching luggage, the TAG Heuer watch and the official Driving Ambition book. As an authentic time capsule, this F1 is arguably the best preserved example on the market.
And this could lead to it becoming the most expensive Formula 1 ever auctioned, and also the first of its kind to change hands for more than $ 20 million. As of this writing, a 1998 F1 LM is the most expensive at $ 19.8 million, followed by a 1995 F1 that sold for $ 15.6 million. A second F1 LM from 1998 completes the top 3 with a day of $ 13.7 million.
This example is one of 65 street legal F1s produced. The 106-unit run also includes five LMs, two GTs, and 28 race-specific GTRs. Like all standard F1s, it has a BMW-built 6.1-liter V12 engine that produces 618 horsepower and 479 pound-feet (650 Nm) of torque.
The F1 offered by Gooding & Company will reach the auction block at the 2021 Pebble Beach auctions scheduled for August 14th and 15th.
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