Michael Schumacher fought for the 1998 title with Mika Häkkinen at the wheel of this car.
Buying a Formula 1 car is only up to a few people in the world due to its high cost, but since dreaming is free, we have all wanted to have a vehicle of this type at some time. And more if it is the Ferrari F300 that has just been put up for sale. Michael Schumacher himself was lucky enough to drive it and, just for the sound of it, it would be worth having.
The Ferrari F300 is the single-seater used by Schumacher and Eddie Irvine in the 1998 season. This F1, designed by the legendary Rory Byrne, allowed Michael to fight for the drivers’ world championship and Ferrari for the teams’, but Mika Häkkinen, McLaren and a difference of 14 points in his favor at the end of the season, prevented the German from winning his first title dressed in red.
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Even so, Schumacher achieved no less than six victories and both he and his partner added up to 13 more podium finishes.
At that time, V10 engines were the rule in Formula 1 and, as you can imagine, the sound of the F1 was wonderful. The Italian team’s engine was capable of developing more than 805 horsepower at 17,300 rpm.
Now, one of the Ferrari F300 used by Schumacher, specifically the one from the Luxembourg GP, held at the Nürburgring and where Michael won pole position and second place, has been put up for sale.
The company that is looking for a new owner is duPont Registry, and has not given more details about the equipment of the model. What has been made public is that Schumacher’s F300 costs nothing more and nothing less than 4.9 million dollars, around 4 and a half million euros.
Not surprisingly, it must be said that the F300 is part of F1 history as it was a decisive car in the fight for the 1998 title. In the last race of that year, both drivers were separated by just four points, with Häkkinen in the lead.
Schumacher started on pole, but stalled at the start and had to come back to hunt down Häkkinen, who inherited first place. As he tried to do so, the German suffered a puncture that forced him to retire. Just a year before, Michael also lost the title after his incident with Villeneuve in Jerez.
It took until 2000 for Michael to win his first title with Ferrari… and then he didn’t stop winning until 2004, when he won his seventh championship.
