Racing suits from three of Formula One's most successful World Champions are up for auction.
Jim Clark, Ayrton Senna and Michael Schumacher share 12 Formula One World Championships between them and 157 race wins (17 percent of the World Championship races ever held).
Nate D. Sanders Auctions is currently auctioning a multitude of race car drivers racing suits, including ones formerly worn by these three legends.
Bidding for Senna’s red racing suit begins at $72,500. The suit features the logos of his sponsors Honda, Banco Nacional, Shell, Boss and McLaren. Senna, a Brazilian race car driver, was a three-time Formula One World Champion and was leading during the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix when he suffered a fatal motor racing crash at the age of 34.
Bidding for Clark’s race suit begins at $58,000, with a picture of the Scottish Formula One World Champion wearing the suit. Jim Clark won the World Championship on two occasions, and is considered by many to be one of the greatest F1 drivers to have ever raced. Tragically, he was also killed during a motor racing crash, in a Formula 2 race at Germany in 1968. He was 32.
Michael Schumacher celebrates his second place finish at the 2006 British Grand Prix.
Bidding for Schumacher’s race suit, worn by the German en route to finishing second at the 2006 British Grand Prix, begins at $20,000. Schumacher is statistically the most successful Formula One driver, winning seven World Championships from 1994 to 2004. Schumacher retired from the sport in 2012, and was badly injured during a skiing incident on December 29, 2013. Schumacher is currently undergoing rehabilitation treatment at his home in Switzerland.
The auctions for all three racing suits ends on Thursday, September 25 at 8 p.m. ET.
