Following his seven-year stint with McLaren, Hamilton joined the Silver Arrows for 2013 and has led the group to its record-breaking title success whereas successful an additional six drivers’ crowns.
Though Mercedes excelled upon the arrival of 1.6-litre turbo hybrid V6s in 2014, Hamilton scored a win for the group throughout their first yr collectively. He triumphed within the 2013 Hungarian Grand Prix.
The automobile he drove at Budapest, Mercedes W04 chassis #4, is up for public sale with RM Sotheby’s and can headline its Las Vegas sale on 17 November – the Saturday of the F1 weekend.
W04-04 is the primary Hamilton-driven Mercedes F1 automobile to be supplied for public sale. It carries an public sale estimate of £8.2-12.4million ($10-15m).
RM Sotheby’s international head of personal gross sales Shelby Myers mentioned: “On the earth of automotive great-ness, few marques match the attract of the Mercedes Silver Arrows.
“The Mercedes W196, which offered for $29.6million, stays essentially the most helpful System 1 automobile ever offered. Nevertheless, it is the Mercedes-Benz Uhlenhaut Coupe that fetched $142million, cementing the Silver Arrows’ place in historical past books as one of many world’s most useful and recognisable manufacturers.
“Now, including to the legacy of the Silver Arrows, we introduce the W04 – a automobile whose significance can’t be overstated.
“Pushed by System 1’s most profitable driver and sporting icon, Lewis Hamilton, this automobile delivered his very first win in a Mercedes F1 automobile, signalling the start of the marque’s most dominant interval: the Hamilton-Mercedes dynasty.
2013 Mercedes System 1 automobile of Lewis Hamilton
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“This pairing can solely be in comparison with Jordan and the Bulls, Brady and the Patriots, or Messi and Argentina.
“Given the unparalleled lineage and being the only real instance exterior of Mercedes’ origination publicly accessible, the pairing of Lewis and the W04 elevates it past only a System 1 automobile.
“This simple piece might emerge as one of the coveted collectibles within the fore-seeable future.”
Additionally of be aware among the many tons is Tom Brady’s ultimate game-worn Tampa Bay Buccaneers NFL jersey, which is predicted to fetch as much as £2m.
This weekend RM Sotheby’s can be promoting an enormous array of great trophies, race fits, helmets, steering wheels and different memorabilia from the personal assortment of 1992 F1 world champion Nigel Mansell.
Highlights from the lot record embody three GP winner’s trophies from 1986, three from 1987, plus his second place pot from the 1992 Monaco GP, notable for the famed lead battle between Mansell and McLaren racer Ayrton Senna.