---
title: "You Can Buy Michael Schumacher’s Legendary 2001 F1 Championship Ferrari F2001"
description: "The best part: It still works perfectly."
date: "2017-09-27"
modified: "2017-09-27"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/14693/you-can-buy-michael-schumachers-legendary-2001-f1-championship-ferrari-f2001"
categories:
  - "F1"
  - "Ferrari News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Racing"
tags:
  - "Auction"
  - "f2001"
  - "Ferrari"
  - "Formula 1"
  - "michael schumacher"
---

# You Can Buy Michael Schumacher’s Legendary 2001 F1 Championship Ferrari F2001

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We may never see another Formula 1 season like 2001, when Scuderia Ferrari driver [Michael Schumacher](<https://www.thedrive.com/news/5247/michael-schumacher-cannot-walk-per-his-lawyer>) was just beginning his early-aughts reign of five consecutive World Championships and scored a record 58-point margin of victory over the second place driver. And now's your chance to own a piece of history itself—the very same Ferrari F2001 Schumacher was driving when he iced the championship for both him and Ferrari.

[RM Sotheby's will be auctioning off](<https://backoffice.rmsothebys.com/en/home/2001-ferrari-f2001-curated-by-rm-sotheby-s-sothebys-contemporary-art-evening-auction-16-november-new-york/>) chassis #211 of the Brawn/Byrne-designed Ferrari F2001, a car Schumacher drove to victory in both the Monaco Grand Prix and the Hungarian Grand Prix in the 2001 season. The former win was Ferrari's [last at the legendary circuit before this year](<https://www.thedrive.com/article/10762/ferrari-wins-first-monaco-grand-prix-since-2001>) and allowed Schumacher to break Alain Prost's record of 51 all-time wins. The victory in Hungary gave him an insurmountable lead in the Driver's Championship—it would soon become his fourth—and also secured Ferrari's 11th Constructor's Championship.

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But here's the best part: its glory days aren't over yet. F2001 #211 remains in perfect operational condition, ready to tackle any historic track day or simply the world's most impractical (and illegal) trip to the grocery store. Along with your purchase comes a spot in the factory garage at Maranello, transportation for the car to company or private racing events, and a brigade of Ferrari mechanics and technicians to ensure everything remains in tip top shape. Sotheby's calls it "usable art," and it's hard to think of a better description.

So if you cough up the estimated $4 million this legendary F1 car is expected to bring [at the November 16 sale in New York,](<https://backoffice.rmsothebys.com/en/home/2001-ferrari-f2001-curated-by-rm-sotheby-s-sothebys-contemporary-art-evening-auction-16-november-new-york/>) consider it your obligation—nay, your duty—to wring out that 3.0-liter, 800 horsepower V-10 engine every chance you get. We doubt Schumacher would want it any other way.

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## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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