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Nigel Mansell collection heading to auction, including two F1 cars

A group of 1992 System One champion Nigel Mansell’s automobiles is headed to public sale. They’re going to be a part of RM Sotheby’s 2022 Monaco sale, scheduled for Might 14.

The highlights are two of Mansell’s F1 automobiles, together with the Ferrari 640 he drove in the course of the 1989 season. The 640 debuted the semi-automatic gearbox that later grew to become the usual in F1, coupled to a V-12 engine. Mansell drove it to victory on the 1989 Brazilian Grand Prix, the 640’s first outing and Mansell’s first race with Ferrari.

The automotive up for public sale is chassis 109, which Mansell additionally drove within the 1989 Monaco Grand Prix. It was gifted to the British driver on the finish of the season, and has been in his assortment ever since.

Nigel Mansell’s 1989 Ferrari 640 (photograph by way of RM Sotheby’s)

The opposite F1 automotive included within the sale is a 1991 Williams FW14. Sporting a Renault V-10 and aerodynamics by Adrian Newey, the FW14 introduced Mansell and Williams near a championship, however driver and workforce misplaced out to Ayrton Senna and McLaren. Mansell lastly received his championship the next season within the FW14B, which added energetic suspension to the combination.

RM Sotheby’s is auctioning off chassis FW14-5, which Mansell drove to dominate the 1991 British Grand Prix. He took pole place and led each lap of his dwelling race that 12 months. Mansell then gave Senna a trip again to the pits after the Brazilian’s automotive ran out of gas.

The public sale additionally consists of the 2005 Reynard 2KI Mansell drove within the Grand Prix Masters sequence, a one-make sequence that includes retired F1 drivers that solely lasted one season. Rounding out the gathering are a 1991 Birkin 7 Dash (a Lotus Seven spinoff) and a 1990 iC Modulo M89, a three-wheeler with in-line seating powered by a 750-cc BMW motorbike engine.

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