{"id":9965,"date":"2023-11-23T16:35:08","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=9965"},"modified":"2023-11-23T16:35:10","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T16:35:10","slug":"lewis-hamiltons-first-mercedes-winner-makes-18-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taziomagazine.com\/?p=9965","title":{"rendered":"Lewis Hamilton\u2019s first Mercedes winner makes $18 million"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the 2013 Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 W04. It\u2019s also the first Mercedes F1 with which Lewis Hamilton won a Grand Prix for the Silver Arrows. And that, apparently, makes it worth $18 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s happy weeks at RM Sotheby\u2019s headquarters. After the record sale<\/a> of the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, another record fell. This time for most expensive contemporary Formula 1 sold at auction. In the run-up to the Las Vegas F1 Grand Prix, RM Sotheby\u2019s held an auction, with this as the highlight: Lewis Hamilton\u2019s 2013 Mercedes AMG F1 W04.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lewis Hamilton on his way to his first victory in a Mercedes-AMG F1 in the 2013 Hungarian Grand Prix. Photo Mercedes archive<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hungarian GP win<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a highly relevant car of course. This was Hamilton\u2019s first Mercedes chassis. His move from McLaren to the poor-performing Mercedes team at the time was deemed a risky move. The 2013 season would be the last one run with 2.4-litre V8 engines, aided by the KERS kinetic energy recovery system that could add a burst of up to 80 hp to supplement the 750 fuel-fed horses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo RM Sotheby’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hamilton would use this car, chassis #04, for 14 of the season\u2019s 19 races. This was also the car with which Lewis Hamilton took victory in the Hungarian Grand Prix<\/a>, his first F1 victory behind the wheel of a Mercedes-AMG F1 car. Hamilton showed Mercedes\u2019 improving form with a total of five podium finishes in 2013. Four times, he was in this car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo RM Sotheby’s<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Beating the estimate<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Up to this point, Lewis Hamilton ties with Michael Schumacher as F1s most successful driver. Both have seven world titles to their name. The auction makes clear a Hamilton Mercedes F1 featured prominently on someone\u2019s shopping list. The W04 easily beat pre-sale estimates ($10-15 million) to ultimately reach $18,815,000, including premiums. The previous record \u2013 again, for contemporary F1s \u2013 was for Michael Schumacher\u2019s Ferrari F2003-GA, which made 14,690,000 Swiss francs (around $15 million) in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is the 2013 Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 W04. It\u2019s also the first Mercedes F1 with which Lewis Hamilton won a Grand Prix for the Silver Arrows. And that, apparently, makes it worth $18 million. It\u2019s happy weeks at RM Sotheby\u2019s headquarters. After the record sale of the 1962 Ferrari 250 GTO, another record fell. This…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[106],"tags":[206,121,1406,1407,701,280,1405,584],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-9965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-auctions-results-sales-announcements","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-hungarian-grand-prix","tag-las-vegas","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-mercedes","tag-mercedes-amg","tag-michael-schumacher","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t