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Highest Bidder
Thu 31 Jul, 9:50 pm - 10:30 pm 40mins
In August 2002 the most expensive racing car ever sold at auction was knocked down for $6.5m, at Monterey, California. The car was the 1962 Ferrari Testarossa 330 that had won the 24 Hours at Le Mans the same year, the last front-engine car to win there. Its co-driver was one of the greatest racing drivers of the 50s and 60s, a three-times Le Mans winner and the first American to win the Formula One World Championship - Hil Hill.
The car itself had been in the possession of the world's greatest collector of Ferraris for nearly thirty years, so when it came up for auction the classic car network was buzzing. One of the most famous marques in motoring history, a winner of motor sports' most famous endurance race, driven by one of the greatest drivers of the period...all this made the '62 Testarossa one of the most desirable cars on the planet.
But it hasn't gone into a motoring museum. The world's most expensive racing car is owned by a New Orleans stockbroker who drives it to work.
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