{"id":403368,"date":"2026-01-10T03:41:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403368\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T03:41:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T03:41:14","slug":"iconic-michael-schumacher-f1-car-set-for-eye-watering-sum-at-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/403368\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Michael Schumacher F1 car set for eye-watering sum at auction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A race-winning car driven by Michael Schumacher is going on sale at an auction, where it is estimated to fetch a huge sum.<\/p>\n<p>The 1992 Benetton B192 was the first car Schumacher drove to a grand prix, scoring one win and a further seven podiums with the challenger.<\/p>\n<p>Schumacher triumphed at the 1992 Belgian Grand Prix, one year on from his F1 debut with Jordan.<\/p>\n<p>The specific chassis up for sale is the B192 chassis number 05, which was used by Schumacher at several rounds during the year &#8211; including his win from Spa-Francorchamps.<\/p>\n<p>The German driver went on to finish third in the standings that season behind Nigel Mansell and Ricardo Patrese.<\/p>\n<p>The car remained in Benetton&#8217;s (later Renault&#8217;s) care until it was sold to former driver Laurent Redon in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Under his owenership the B192-05 was completely restored to working order, complete with a chassis overhaul and an engine and gearbox rebuild.<\/p>\n<p>Now, for the first time, it is being made available for sale to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Auctioneers estimate that the car will fetch in excess of \u20ac8.5 million when it goes under the hammer later this month.<\/p>\n<p>You can find more information on the car and the auction <a href=\"https:\/\/www.broadarrowauctions.com\/vehicles\/gi26e_r0008\/home\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A race-winning car driven by Michael Schumacher is going on sale at an auction, where it is estimated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-403368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403368\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}