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Scheckter to sell Ferrari F1 title winner
Jody Scheckter, the South African driver, achieved 10 world championship wins out of 111 starts in his topflight racing career lasting from 1972 to 1980. Scheckter, now 74, has consigned 12 cars from his personal collection to RM Sotheby’s Monaco sale on 11 May. The highlight of the auction is his ground-effect 1979 Ferrari 312 T4, the final car that secured a drivers’ title during Enzo Ferrari’s lifetime. This specific car, chassis #040, won back-to-back races in Belgium and Monaco and was one of five 312 T4s built. Scheckter, who drove for Ferrari, achieved a 1-2 finish with teammate Gilles Villeneuve at the Monza GP, clinching both the drivers’ and constructors’ championship. Apart from the Ferrari, Scheckter is also auctioning off other significant cars like the 1971 McLaren M19A and a recreated Tyrrell P34, among several others, with a total estimate of £10.9m for the 12 lots.
