F1’s Former Owner is Unloading Decades of Rare Race Cars

Bernie Ecclestone is having a sale. The previous Components 1 head honcho is eliminating 69 Grand Prix and Components 1 vehicles from his assortment that he spent the final 50 years constructing. The general public has by no means seen most of the vehicles he is purchased over the past half-century since he acquired them, which means this can be a once-in-a-lifetime alternative for the precise collector.

Ecclestone is promoting off championship-winning Ferraris from Niki Lauda and Michael Schumacher. His assortment additionally comprises the well-known Brabham BT46B fan automobile designed by Gordon Murray. It raced solely as soon as on the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix, the place it gained first by greater than 30 seconds.

Photograph by: Tom Hartley Jnr.

Different vehicles on the market embody the Vanwall VW10 piloted by Sir Stirling Moss, the primary Ferrari ever to beat Alfa Romeo—the Skinny Wall Particular, and Mike Hawthorn’s championship-winning Ferrari Dino. And do not forget Alberto Ascari’s Italian Grand Prix-winning Ferrari 375 F1, the very first Ferrari 312 F1, and the Maserati 250F.

Ecclestone, now 94 years previous, turned concerned in F1 within the Nineteen Fifties. He is determined to promote his assortment now as a result of “the time has come for me to begin fascinated by what is going to occur to them ought to I not be right here.”  And he didn’t need to depart them for his spouse to cope with “ought to I not be round.” He definitely can’t take them with him.