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

The crimson “Chassis 229” Ferrari raced by German world champion driver Schumacher 9 instances might fetch as much as $9.4 million, in response to the sellers.

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

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He mentioned the goal market had been race course patrons, because the 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 attainable color grading for blue diamonds and is awarded to not more than 1 per cent of blue diamonds submitted to the Gemological Institute of America, Sotheby’s mentioned.

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

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