A 1997 Ferrari F310 B System 1 automobile, pushed by seven-time champion Michael Schumacher on the Belgian Grand Prix weekend and Eddie Irvine on the Italian and Austrian grands prix, has gone up for public sale with an estimated value of €5,500,000-€7,500,000.
In accordance with the itemizing with RM Sotheby’s, the automobile retains its authentic engine, gearbox, chassis and bodywork. The itemizing additionally states: “Considerably, chassis 179 has additionally been licensed by Ferrari Classiche in January 2007 and is obtainable with its ‘Purple E-book’ together with plenty of spare components and objects. These embrace a spare set of BBS wheels, race harness, a set of handheld blowers, jacks, and extra, which can be found to ship individually on the purchaser’s expense from the US.”
The F310 B chassis 179, powered by a 3-litre V10 engine, made its first race weekend look on the 1997 Belgian Grand Prix when Schumacher took it out for qualifying earlier than reverting to an older chassis. The F310 B chassis 179, which is the one provided on the market, was better-suited to low-grip situations.
Whereas the 179 did not get its full race weekend outing at Spa-Francorchamps, Irvine drove the automobile through the Italian and Austrian Grands Prix.
Michael Schumacher, Ferrari F310B
Photograph by: Motorsport Photographs
Schumacher completed the 1997 season in second with 78 factors, behind Jacques Villeneuve. However Schumacher was later disqualified from the championship for unsportsmanlike behaviour in direction of the Canadian driver through the season finale. Irvine completed seventh within the 1997 standings with 24 factors.
The Ferrari F310 B chassis 179 was beforehand bought by Ferrari in 1999 to a small group of collectors earlier than being acquired by the Audrain Auto Museum in Newport, Rhode Island, in 2014.
The Ferrari F310 B chassis 179, which was the final Ferrari to be designed by John Barnard, who left the Maranello outfit earlier than the 1997 season started, will go beneath the hammer on Wednesday 28 January with RM Sotheby’s in Paris.
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