Several attending this sale were directly connected to the team during its many years of championship-winning seasons. Hard-won trophies awarded to Haas as a team owner proved that this team’s achievements extended internationally.Īfter an assortment of oil paintings and signed prints depicting the greatest US race team at work, a Nigel Mansell Race-Worn F1 Helmet, gifted to Haas by the Brit World Champ, commanded an impressive $90,000 (£77,400), many times more than its top estimate.Ī few lots later, a second helmet from ‘Il Leone’ from his championship-winning Indy year brought an equally astounding $56,400 (£48,504), proving that ‘Mansell Mania’ is still alive and well among the world’s Man Cave Petrolheads. Race-worn helmets, gloves, and suits represented physical artefacts from the team’s Golden Years. Haas had an inherent appreciation for the historic value of team artefacts, retaining many of their most celebrated chassis from new, the race-used examples auctioned telling a story of the evolution of open-wheel racing in America, where eight of them won championships.īefore the cars crossed the block, an assortment of extraordinary Motorsport Automobilia warmed up the bidders. Having signed drivers as skilled as Mario and Michael Andretti, Nigel Mansell, Cristiano da Matta, Christian Fittipaldi, Sébastien Bourdais, and Graham Rahal, Newmann/Haas Team founders Carl A Haas and racing movie star Paul Newman dominated both CART and Champ Car 1983-2011.

One step inside the legendary Indy and CART racing team’s workshop revealed an auction setup quite literally unlike any other.Ī row of black Swift-chassis racers lined up near the entrance several more were suspended behind the auctioneer’s podium for the largest sale of open-wheel race cars ever auctioned, when every single lot, sold for $6,096,800 (£524,325). The House That Newman/Haas Racing Built in Lincolnshire Illinois was the 29 October auction venue for RM Sotheby’s latest site-specific sale.

100% of 41 Haas/Newman racers auctioned in US by RM Sotheby’s sold for $6m included Nigel Mansell $1m 1993 Lola-Ford Cosworth

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