There is a lot of red in these pictures.
Selection of 69 vehicles, including Ferraris and Brabhams, has been described as ‘the most important race car collection in the world’
Bernie Ecclestone is putting his entire collection of historic grand prix and Formula One cars – 69 cars worth an estimated £500,000,000 – up for sale.
The 69-car collection includes Ferraris raced by world champions such as Mike Hawthorn, Niki Lauda, and Michael Schumacher, Brabhams raced by Nelson Piquet, Carlos Pace, and Lauda, as well as the one-off Brabham-Alfa Romeo BT46B ‘fan car’, which raced only once, winning the Swedish Grand Prix at Anderstorp in 1978.
It comes after Ecclestone, 94, pleaded guilty last year to fraud after being accused of failing to declare more than £400 million of overseas assets to the UK Government. Prosecutors told the court that Ecclestone would pay a record £652 million to HM Revenue and Customs, and he was given a suspended jail sentence of 17 months. It made him the UK’s second-highest taxpayer, according to the Sunday Times tax list for 2024.
But the former F1 supremo has insisted the car sale is because the time has come for him to “start thinking about what would happen to them should I no longer be here”.
“That is why I have decided to sell them [the cars],” he said. “I would like to know where they have gone and not leave them for my wife to deal with should I not be around.”....
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