The Ferrari pushed to 5 race victories by Michael Schumacher throughout his World Championship-winning 2003 Components 1 season is being auctioned subsequent week in Geneva, public sale home Sotheby’s mentioned on Friday.

The pink ‘Chassis 229’ Ferrari raced by German world champion driver Schumacher 9 instances might fetch as much as $9.4 million, in keeping with the sellers.

“It is … particular as a result of this automotive is without doubt one of the solely 4 automobiles with greater than 4 wins within the Ferrari historical past and particularly with some of the expert driver of his technology, Michael Schumacher,” mentioned Vincent Luzuy, government assistant to the director of RM Sotheby’s gross sales.

He mentioned the goal market had been race course patrons, for the reason that automotive is “track-ready”, in addition to artwork collectors.

Sotheby’s can be presenting eight uncommon “Fancy Blue” diamonds valued at greater than $70 million. This color is the very best doable color grading for blue diamonds and is awarded to not more than 1% of blue diamonds submitted to the Gemological Institute of America, Sotheby’s mentioned.

“This can be very uncommon and to have a set of eight it’s tremendous thrilling,” mentioned jewelry specialist at Sotheby’s Geneva, Marie-Cecile Cisamolo. The diamonds will probably be supplied at public sale in Geneva, New York and Hong Kong and the primary one will probably be supplied within the Swiss metropolis on Nov. 9.