Michael Schumacher’s Monaco and Championship-winning 2001 Ferrari F2001 racer sold as the most expensive Ferrari F1 car ever at RM Sotheby’s Grand Prix de Monaco 2025 auction.
RM Sotheby’s sold the 2001 Ferrari F1, chassis 211, which Michael Schumacher drove to victory at the Monaco and Hungarian GP races to secure his fourth world championship, for €15,980,000 ($18,392,980) at the special Grand Prix de Monaco 2025 sale. This set a new record price for the most expensive Ferrari Formula 1 racing car ever sold at public auction. No presale estimate was released, but this racing car sold for a then-record $7.5 million in New York in 2017.
Michael Schumacher’s 2001 Ferrari F1 at RM Sotheby’s Monaco 2025 Sale
Michael Schumacher’s 2001 Ferrari F2001, chassis 211, was offered for sale at a special RM Sotheby’s auction on 24 May 2025 at the Paddock Club prior to qualifying for the 2025 Formula 1 TAG Heuer Monaco Grand Prix.
Schumacher achieved his fifth, and final, Monaco Formula 1 Grand Prix victory in chassis 211 in 2001. He drove the same chassis to victory at the Hungaroring later in the year to clinch his fourth (of eventually seven) Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship with four races to spare. This was his second championship (of five) with Ferrari and secured Ferrari its 11th Constructors’ Championship.
Previous Schumacher Ferrari F1 Auction Results
The same Michael Schumacher’s 2001 Ferrari F2001, chassis 211, sold for $7,504,000 at the Sotheby’s Contemporary Art sale in New York in 2017, as the first modern Formula 1 car ever to achieve over $5 million at auction. The result was well in excess of RM Sotheby’s pre-sale estimate of $4,000,000 to $5,500,000.
Prior to the 2017 sale, the record for a Schumacher-driven Ferrari was $3,198,500 paid at the Sotheby’s Maranello 2005 sale for the Ferrari Formula One F2004, chassis number 234, in which Schumacher won the Australian, Malaysian, Bahrain, Imola, and Spanish races.
Before 2025, the most expensive Schumacher Ferrari F1 was the 2003 Ferrari F2003 GA F1 car in which Michael Schumacher won his sixth driver’s world championship, in addition to five overall Grand Prix victories, that sold for an astonishing CHF14,630,000 (US$ 14,880,000) at the Sotheby’s Luxury Week sale 2022 in Geneva.
Most Expensive Formula 1 Cars Ever Sold at Public Auction
The list of the most expensive Formula 1 single-seater racing cars ever sold at public auction (up to 24 May 2025) is:
| Year | Car | Price ($) | Auctioneer | Auction | Auction Year | Notes | |
| 1 | 1954 | Mercedes-Benz W196R Streamliner | 53,917,370 | RM Sotheby’s | Stuttgart | 2025 | Driven by Juan Manual Fangio and Stirling Moss |
| 2 | 1954 | Mercedes-Benz W196R | 29,650,000 | Bonhams | Goodwood Festival of Speed | 2013 | Driven by Juan Manual Fangio |
| 3 | 2013 | Mercedes-AMG Petronas W04-04 | 18,815,000 | RM Sotheby’s | Las Vegas | 2023 | Lewis Hamilton’s first GP win in a Mercedes |
| 4 | 2001 | Ferrari F2001, #211, | 18,392,980 | RM Sotheby’s | Monaco | 2025 | Michael Schumacher’s fifth Monaco GP victory |
| 5 | 2003 | Ferrari F2003-GA | 14,880,000 | RM Sotheby’s | Geneva | 2022 | Michael Schumacher secured his sixth championship and won five GP races |
| 6 | 1979 | Ferrari 312 T4 | 8,250,800 | RM Sotheby’s | Monaco | 2024 | Three Jody Scheckter GP victories, last Enzo Ferrari F1 championship-winning car |
| 7 | 2001 | Ferrari F2001, #211 | 7,504,000 | RM Sotheby’s | New York | 2017 | Michael Schumacher’s fifth Monaco GP victory. (Sold for $18.4 million in 2025.) |
| 8 | 2010 | McLaren MP4-25A | 6,741,384 | RM Sotheby’s | Silverstone | 2021 | First Hamilton race-winning car ever sold at auction |
| 9 | 2002 | Ferrari F2002 | 6,643,750 | RM Sotheby’s | Abu Dhabi | 2019 | Michael Schumacher secured his fifth championship and three GP victories |
| 10 | 1998 | Ferrari F300 | 6,220,000 | RM Sotheby’s | Monterey | 2022 | Four Michael Schumacher GP victories |
| 11 | 1993 | McLaren MP4-8A | 5,009,266 | Bonhams | Monaco | 2018 | Ayrton Senna’s 6th Monaco GP win |
Note: Nominal prices including premium. USD prices as converted at the time of auction (if applicable).