P1racenews AI automatic summary:
Scheckter to sell 1979 title-winning Ferrari F1 car
“The South African driver won 10 world championship races from 111 starts during a topflight career that spanned from 1972 to 1980. Scheckter, 74, has entered 12 cars from his personal collection into RM Sotheby’s Monaco sale on 11 May. The headline lot is his ground-effect 1979 Ferrari 312 T4, the final car to help claim a drivers’ title during Enzo Ferrari’s lifetime. This particular example, chassis #040, was the fourth of five 312 T4s built; it was campaigned exclusively by Scheckter and took back-to-back victories in the Belgian and Monaco GPs. Scheckter also led a Ferrari 1-2, ahead of team-mate Gilles Villeneuve, at the team’s home race in Monza to seal a drivers’ and constructors’ championship double. He purchased the three-lite flat-12-engined car from the team in 1982 and it now carries a pre-sale estimate of £4.45 to 5 million.”
