The Bernie Ecclestone collection of 69 emblematic cars of Formula 1 and Grand Prix discovered a new owner after the former master of ceremonies F1 put it on sale at the end of last year thanks to a personal treaty process.
The collection, which Ecclestone has accumulated more than 50 years, presents the legendary Ferraris motivated through Alberto Ascari, Michael Schumacher and Niki Lauda, as well as other winning championship cars dating from the 1950s.
Although he has aroused the interest of several buyers from all over the world, adding two sovereign funds, the collection was discovered in the hands of Mark Mateschitz, the only son of the past due to the Austrian multimillionaire and co-discussion of Red Bull Gmbh Dietrich.
Selling the entire collection to a client has established a new reference in the Global of Antique Cars, which makes it the largest transaction ever registered. It exceeded all sales of past records through “several multiple”, according to the historic corridor of sports cars and races, Tom Hartley Jnr, which controlled the sale.
Although the precise costs of the costs paid are revealed, several reports recommend that the price of the collection represents around 500 million pounds sterling, or $ 646 million at the existing exchange rate.
The 32 -year -old man, who inherited 49% of his father in the power he drank after his death in October 2022, told Daily Mail that the collection would “keep carefully” and have prolonged over the years, and has sworn to make him available to the public in the near future.
Ecclestone, who controlled F1 for 4 decades until Liberty Media took over in 2017, told Reuters: “They went to an intelligent house, that the genuine interested me.
“They will provide them somewhere, in a museum so other people can take a look at a replacement that had never happened before.
“It’s good. I’m more than happy, that’s where they left. I would not have sold unless they were going to end. They will build something like a museum and that’s where they will be. “
The $ 646 million collection includes safe jewels, adding the British Racing Green 1949 Ferrari End Wall Special, as well as 312T, which promoted Scuderia to its first manufacturers championship since 1962.
Ferrari 312B3, a winner of the Grand Prix, also shows up, along Dino 246, that the Italian team campaigned for 3 seasons and took Mike Hawthorn to the 1958 global championship.
Another star is the Ferrari F2002, one of the maximum cars of the 21st century, which brought to the Les Deux team in 2002.
Among the jewels is the legendary VW10 that Stirling Moss led to several victories of the Grand Prix in the 1958 season. Moss and his teammate Tony Brooks led Vanwall as the first manufacturer this season.
Then there are 375, winner of Alberto Ascari’s Italian Grand Prix, the vehicle in which Ferrari also won his first victory thanks to the triumph of José Froilan González in Silverstone in 1951.
Among the two corners “Porfido” in Monza (now the parabolic) Alberto Ascari looks at his shoulder premiere. [+] Of its Ferrari 375 / F1 camera and directly in the Klemantaski Chamber, the Italian collection of the Grand Prize in Monza, September 16, 1951. (Photo of the Klemantashi / Getty collection, September 16, 1951.
All Ecclestone’s Brabhams are also from the collection, adding the debatable “fan car” BT46B, which Lauda led to victory in the 1978 Sweden Grand Prix, completing 34 seconds by Riccardo Patrese.
After having so much time to have them, the rich person of British affairs announced in December 2024 that he would put his beloved cars for sale.
This came here after pleading with fraud cake in October 2023 for not having declared an acceptance as true with Singapore that had more than 400 million sterling pounds to the British fiscal government in 2015. He agreed to reimburse around 653 million pounds sterling in the HMRC to avoid a sentence of 17 months.
However, Ecclestone obviously indicated that his recent legal disorders had to do with their resolution to sell their collection. Instead, it comes from the preference of leaving a burden on his wife, Fabiana, when he died.
“It’s very easy,” Ecclestone at The Telegraph when his reason was asked.
“With a little luck, I may be two or 3 more, and I don’t need to leave everything to Fabiana.
“All these automotive dealers would be motivated, so what you have to do is bring all cars combined and see to make sure they go to adequate homes.
“Ace [Ecclestone’s youngest son] would not be interested in handling all this. It can also be more in football.
“Soon or later it will happen. I am even more or less in control, so I can do what I like. Maybe in another year, I will not be able to do it. “
The former Brabham chief has selected to sell his collection through Tom Hartley Jnr, who said: “There has never been, and it will never be a collection as it is presented for sale again. “
Now, Bernie Ecclestone’s historic collection has discovered a new space with Red Bull Mark Mateschitz heir.