An actual piece of Formulation 1 historical past is developing for public sale.

RM Sotheby’s has been consigned to promote the F1 race automobile that Lewis Hamilton used to safe his first win for Mercedes-Benz AMG, which occurred on the 2013 Hungarian Grand Prix.

The win is critical because it was the beginning of Hamilton’s epic run that will see him win six of his present seven world championship titles. His first title, gained in 2008, was with McLaren.

The automobile bears chassis quantity F1W04-04 and was pushed by Hamilton in 14 of the 19 races held in 2013’s F1 season. Hamilton was solely profitable on the Hungarian spherical that season. He scored each pole place and the win that spherical, whereas Sebastian Vettel, driving for Pink Bull Racing, would declare the title.

Mercedes AMG’s Lewis Hamilton after profitable the 2013 Formulation One Hungarian Grand Prix

RM Sotheby’s estimates a promoting value of between $10 million and $15 million. The worth is excessive, although traditionally vital Mercedes F1 automobiles not often come up on the market. That is as a result of virtually all of them are both owned by Mercedes, Toto Wolff, the CEO or co-owner of the Mercedes F1 crew, or the automobile’s driver. And in contrast to many F1 automobiles which are bought, this one retains its energy unit and transmission, an RM Sotheby’s spokesperson instructed Bloomberg.

The 2013 season was the final for a V-8 engine in F1, as the subsequent season noticed the game introduce the present V-6 format. The V-8 is a naturally aspirated 2.4-liter engine paired with a KERS-style hybrid system.

The automobile’s public sale is scheduled for Nov. 17 at RM Sotheby’s sale coinciding with the Las Vegas Grand Prix. The sale will happen on the Wynn Las Vegas lodge, in the future earlier than Hamilton will race down the well-known strip in his present Mercedes F1 automobile.

It will not be the primary F1 automobile pushed by Hamilton to go below the hammer. A McLaren F1 automobile from the 2010 season, which was pushed that season by Hamilton and his teammate, fellow world champion Jenson Button, bought at public sale in 2021 for $6.45 million.