{"id":589677,"date":"2026-04-06T19:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589677\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T19:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T19:07:14","slug":"ayrton-sennas-very-first-f1-car-to-be-auctioned-for-massive-seven-figure-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/589677\/","title":{"rendered":"Ayrton Senna\u2019s very first F1 car to be auctioned for massive seven-figure sum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toleman Formula 1 car that Ayrton Senna drove in his first race is going up for auction later this month and is set to fetch a massive seven-figure sum.<\/p>\n<p>The Brazilian legend\u2019s F1 career began in 1984 with the Toleman, with the squad (who ultimately became the Enstone-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crash.net\/f1\/teams\/alpine\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Alpine<\/a> today) making its debut in the series three years earlier.<\/p>\n<p>While a generally uncompetitive outfit in its short tenure on the F1 grid, its place in F1 history has become significant after it gave a young Ayrton Senna his debut in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Senna scored his first F1 points at the South African and Belgian Grands Prix that year with a brace of sixth-place finishes, before achieving a first podium in a wet Monaco Grand Prix.<\/p>\n<p>He scored three podiums in total that year, with third-place finishes following at the British and Portuguese Grands Prix.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Senna moved to Lotus for the 1985 season, while Toleman limped on with Teo Fabi and Piercarlo Ghinzani and scored no points before being rebranded as Benetton from 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Senna\u2019s Toleman debut car up for auction at minimum \u20ac2.8m valuation<\/p>\n<p>RM Sotheby\u2019s will auction of the Toleman TG183B that Senna raced in the first four rounds of his F1 career, and in which he scored his first points.<\/p>\n<p>The car was driven by Senna\u2019s former Formula 3 rival Martin Brundle during a Sky F1 documentary in 2022, as well as by Pierre Gasly at Silverstone in 2024 to mark 40 years since the Brazilian\u2019s debut and the 30th anniversary of his death.<\/p>\n<p>TG183B, chassis No.5, is competition eligible for the Monaco Historic Grand Prix and the class F1 series, and is powered by a period-correct Hart 415T engine.<\/p>\n<p>It will go under the hammer in Monaco on 25 April and is estimated to go for between \u20ac2.8m-\u20ac3.8m.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>TG183B, chassis No.5, will also be auctioned off alongside several other F1 racers.<\/p>\n<p>A 1991 Ferrari 642, built as a spare car for Alain Prost and Jean Alesi at the Brazilian and San Marino Grands Prix, is one of the lots available. It is set to fetch \u20ac3m-\u20ac4m.<\/p>\n<p>Another Ferrari, the 1978 312 T3, driven by Carlos Reutemann four times and once by Gilles Villeneuve in 1979, is going under the hammer with an estimate of \u20ac4.5m-\u20ac5.5m.<\/p>\n<p>A 1979 Fittipaldi F6\/A, raced by Emerson Fittipaldi in seven rounds will go on sale and is set to bring in at least \u20ac500,000.<\/p>\n<p>A 2003 Jordan EJ13 show car is also up for grabs, with the lot estimated to bring in between \u20ac100,000 and \u20ac150,000.<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p> Article continues below ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our F1 Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Toleman Formula 1 car that Ayrton Senna drove in his first race is going up for auction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":589678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,40761,817,813,816,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-589677","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-formula-1","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-ayrton-senna","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589677","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=589677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/589678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}