Max Verstappen’s F1 car is now for sale for surprisingly little money
According to Statistics Netherlands, the Netherlands currently has 17,850,301 inhabitants and about as many Max Verstappen fans. We have good news for you: the two-time world champion’s Formula 1 car is now for sale.
It’s the auction site Catawiki that is announcing in a big way that it will be auctioning off all manner of Formula 1 knick-knacks, with Max Verstappen’s real F1 car being the highlight. oneself. This isn’t about the RB18, with which the Dutchman has shown absolute dominance all season. Nor is it the RB16B with which Verstappen made history in 2021 by beating his arch-rival Lewis Hamilton on the last lap of the last F1 race.
Max Verstappen Formula 1 car for sale
Which Red Bull is it then? For no Red Bull. Max Verstappen has been with the top Formula 1 team for so long that you almost forget that he started his F1 career at Scuderia Torro Rosso, now called AlphaTauri. The team Nyck de Vries is trying to succeed in this season. The car up for auction is the STR11.
Max Verstappen has not driven for the Red Bull Racing subsidiary for a long time. His time at Torro Rosso came to an abrupt end after a year and a half when he made a most unusual move to Red Bull Racing in the middle of the F1 season. In his nerve-wracking debut race, he crossed the finish line first. “Johee, johoo, jo-fucking-hoo!” Every Dutch Formula 1 fan can remember this historic moment.
Price of the STR11
Although this car, the RB12, would fetch a lot of money, the STR11 will not go under the hammer for cheap either. Certainly not now that Max Verstappen has proven race after race that he is one of the absolute greats in Formula 1. Verstappen drove the first F1 races of 2016 before stripping Daniil Kvjat of his Red Bull seat in the STR11. The Dutchman also took more than just his place in the top team. It later emerged that Verstappen was also dating Kelly Piquet, Kvyat’s ex, with whom the Russian even has a child.
Here you can bid on the F1 car. Although the race cars are extremely expensive (that’s how much money teams lose after a serious accident), the yield of the STR11 is estimated to be remarkably low. Expert Marc Jans expects the hammer price to be between 500,000 and 750,000 euros. Did he forget a zero? Probably not. The reason for this is that mainly Daniil Kvjat and Carlos Sainz took place in this very model. You can choose if you want that livery by Kvjat, Sainz or Verstappen. The car has everything except the engine. If you are awarded the contract, you will have to collect the Formula 1 car yourself in Italy.