A Mercedes grand prix automobile raced by F1 legends Stirling Moss and Juan Manuel Fangio has offered at public sale for £42.75m (€51.155m).
It has smashed the report for a grand prix automobile promoting at public sale. The earlier report was one other ex-Fangio Mercedes W196 from 1954 which went below the hammer for £19.6m at Goodwood in 2013.
The silver W196 R Stromlinienwagen, one among solely 4 full examples in existence, was offered by RM Sotheby’s on the Mercedes museum in Stuttgart, Germany, on Saturday.
5-time world champion Fangio gained the 1955 Buenos Aires Grand Prix within the W196 R, whereas Moss set the quickest lap at a median velocity of 134mph within the automobile on the Italian Grand Prix at Monza the identical yr. Moss retired after the feat.
It had a value estimate of greater than €50m and went below the hammer after a remaining supply of €46.5m. The ultimate value consists of the patrons’ premium from the very best bidder, who was not named.
“It is a fantastic automobile, it is a very historic automobile, it is just a bit bit exterior our scope window,” curator Jason Vansickle mentioned.
“We have been lucky to be stewards of this automobile for almost 60 years and it has been a terrific piece within the museum however with this public sale and the proceeds raised, it actually will enable us … to be higher sooner or later.”
The report payment ever paid for a automobile at an public sale was a 1955 Mercedes 300 SRL Uhlenhaut Coupé that offered for €135m in Could 2022.
