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Thursday November 12, 2009

Schuey’s winning car fetches millions in auction

BERLIN: The Formula One racing car in which Michael Schu­macher captured his first world drivers’ championship title in 1994, is set to be auctioned for millions of euros, it was revealed on Tuesday.

The Benetton B194, which is ready to drive and comes complete with spare parts, is being sold by its private owners on Internet auction house eBay.de and the bidding sailed through the €2mil mark on Tuesday.

Bids for the car passed the €2.5mil mark by 1500 GMT on Tuesday with the bidding set to close at just before midnight on Monday for the car in which Schumacher won the first of his seven world titles.

The winning bid will incur an additional cost of €10,000 for shipping and the car is in the same condition it was in the 1994 season complete with sponsors labels while its Ford Cosworth engine has been overhauled.

The car comes with numerous spare parts for brakes, chassis and transmission, plus a laptop with software package to control the car’s computer, report Bild.

The car is currently in Toronto, Canada, and its sellers – identified only as Christian M. from Bad Homburg, central Germany, and Bernd M. from Toronto – are keen to find a new home.

Documentation from FIA’s engineers proved it competed in the 1994 season, in which Schumacher collided with Britain’s Damon Hill at the Adelaide Grand Prix in the final race of the season to win the season’s world title in controversial circumstances. — AFP

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