As the 2025 Formula 1 season starts, get your hands on some iconic F1 memorabilia with Graham Budd’s F1 Unleashed Timed Auction.
The auction runs from 5pm on Monday March 10 to Sunday March 31, and features over 200 items including race-worn clothing and genuine F1 car parts used by all-time great champions.
Here’s our pick of five key items you could bid for.
Ayrton Senna's signed 1986 British GP race boots
The actual boots worn by Ayrton Senna as he battled the Williams-Hondas in his Lotus-Renault at the 1986 British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch before retiring from third with a gearbox problem at half-distance.
Signed by Senna and also carrying his initials and stickers to denote his ownership, they show signs of wear and tear from inside the Lotus cockpit in the heyday of F1’s original turbo era.
Charles Leclerc's signed 2024 helmet replica
One of a limited edition run of 10 replicas of Charles Leclerc’s 2024 Bell race helmet, personally signed by the Ferrari star and displaying the colours he wore for his bold run to third in last year’s championship as his team took another step back towards title contention.
Replica 1990 Ayrton Senna helmet signed by three champions
A signed helmet with a twist: this exact replica of Ayrton Senna’s helmet from his 1990 title-winning season with McLaren was produced for commemorative activities by the Senna family and Ducati at the 2024 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, and was personally hand signed by Lewis Hamilton, Max Verstappen, and Sebastian Vettel.
Crash damaged 2010 Sebastian Vettel Red Bull nose cone
A genuine nose cone from Sebastian Vettel and Red Bull’s first championship-winning F1 season in 2010 - but with an unusual claim to fame.
It still bears crash damage scars from an incident that season, which we reckon might have been Vettel’s tangle with Jenson Button’s McLaren in that year’s Belgian Grand Prix. The non-score from that clash left Vettel 31 points behind then-championship leader Lewis Hamilton at that stage with just six rounds left. He’d go on to produce the famous last-minute surge that took him to his first championship at the final round in what became a four-way fight with Hamilton, Mark Webber and Fernando Alonso.
Mika Hakkinen's 1997 race suit
The 1997 season was a breakthrough one for future double champion Mika Hakkinen and a resurgent one for his McLaren team, featuring the successes that set them up for McLaren’s first titles since the Senna era.
This race suit - still carrying marks from its use by Hakkinen that year - was used for races in the second half of the 1997 season, when McLaren became a regular pacesetter and only bad luck stopped Hakkinen from winning multiple races before he finally got his elusive first F1 win amid the high drama of the Jerez title decider.
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