Miguel Sánchez
In order to achieve visits and readings, digital journalism too often uses headlines with hyperbole and exaggeration designed to attract attention at all costs. Thus, in most cases this sensationalism ends up coloring something special that is not really that important.
However, almost any grandiloquent adjective is fully justified when we talk about chassis 5893 relating to Ferrari. Belonging to the 250 LM thanks to which the team NART He won absolute victory in Le Mans 1965This represents one of the pinnacles of motorsports, as it closes the cycle of up to six consecutive victories achieved by the Italian manufacturer in the iconic endurance race.
It is also one of just 32 examples of this mid-rear-engined V12 assembled in Maranello, which also marked a milestone in the brand's cooperation with private teams. All of this is topped off with Two more participations in Le Mans and three entries in the 24 Hours of Daytona before ending up in 1970 joining the ranks of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum.
An institution whose halls he has already left, being in Europe - presumably in Maranello before leaving for Paris - awaiting its imminent auction next February within the event signed by RM Sotheby's near the Louvre Museum. Undoubtedly one of the most eagerly awaited events for the high-end market, with expectations of more than 25 million dollars.
HEART-STOPPING FIGURES IN THE 250 LM, WHEN THE SUMS BECOME INCONCEIVABLE
We have said it many times: a significant part of classic motorsport has become the subject of financial speculation just as has been happening for decades in areas such as contemporary painting.
As a result, the figures marked at auctions and private sales register new and more surprising absolute numbers every year, thus inflating a bubble from which few models seem to escape. What's more, although this may seem like a completely foreign issue to the average enthusiast, the truth is that such a increase in contributions It creates an upward effect that ends up spreading to options that are much more popular than the one interpreted by a winner at Le Mans.
At this point, yesterday we saw on the purchase-sale page The Barn Miami how a Renault 5 Turbo 2 with 73.000 kilometres shows exactly the same as a 1989 Testarossa with only 13.595 kilometres on the odometer: 183.000 euros at the exchange rate. What we have seen around a 205 T16 is better not to mention, as it certainly deserves an article of its own, just as we did at the time with the 205 GTI.
25 MILLION DOLLARS, A MUCH LOWER FIGURE THAN THE 250 GTO
If one thing is clear in the speculative market, it is that when a model becomes fashionable at the moment, it begins to revalue exponentially. Something well exemplified by the aforementioned Renault and Peugeot, although curiously it also occurs in the high -very high- range market as well illustrated by the expected difference between this Le Mans-winning 250 LM and the 250 GTO capable of having achieved 48,3 million euros at auction during the past 2023.
That said, it is interesting to see how, although the forecast for the 250 LM is in itself a sum that looks like it will be headline news, the truth is that it is much lower than the one marked by said 250 GTO; something possibly attributable to the fame acquired by the saga of the 250 GTO, becoming much better known to the general public than the 250 LM, despite the latter being the winner of Le Mans 1965.
Whatever the case, once everything concerning this unit is resolved it seems to go straight to scoring figures worthy of attention; something understandable with just a quick look at its design and racing performance, which we will discuss in more detail in a future monographic article on this key model in order to understand the relationship between Ferrari and certain private teams.
Images: RM Sotheby's
