2001 B.A.R for sale online - Formula 1 news - GPUpdate.net



For sale: British American Racing-Honda Formula 1 car. Year: 2001.
A B.A.R F1 car, the like of which was driven by 1997 Champion Jacques Villeneuve nine years ago, is up for sale on the internet.

Despite being listed as a Honda NSX sports car, the No. 11, Lucky Strike-liveried B.A.R is currently available via Auto Trader at an asking price of £29,995.

Courtesy of Villeneuve and team-mate French Olivier Panis, the Honda-powered car of the Brackley team now known as Mercedes GP scored a total of 17 points on its way to finishing sixth in the 2001 Constructors' Championship.

Although French-Canadian Villeneuve achieved podium finishes at the Spanish and German Grands Prix, the B.A.R 003 is probably best remembered amongst fans for its high-flying accident with Ralf Schumacher's Williams at the season-opening event in Australia.

 

For that money, that'd be a screaming deal for a track toy!

 

right on!

 

You need a qualified team of engineers to run it.

 

That's insanneee but could one really run it at a track event. The top gear where he get's to drive the renault shows how tricky it is just to turn the damn thing on. The price of experienced crew would make it not worth it I think. This is just an awesome garage decoration unless your uber rich.

 

think you could make that street legal.......

You would embarrass anything on the streets in an F1 car. You might overheat sitting in traffic though

 

For the half million or so in spares and equipment you'd need to run the thing, probably not so much.

Certainly cheese off (and blow the eardrums out of) the track posers though.

 

I wonder if it even comes with spares or how someone would go about acquiring any. Admittedly, you'd need some sort of technical/engineering support just to get the thing running but I think it'd be a great investment in the sense that you could buy the car and the spares and then rent it out for say $50K/weekend to people who want to experience what it's like to drive a real F1 car. Seems like it'd be a good way to make some cash.

 

... until the first Johnny Hot Rod puts the thing into a barrier.

Also, I don't know that 50k would cover the costs of running the car for a weekend. Those parts ain't cheap, and with a now "vintage" car, kind of hard to find.

Something like an 80's era car, or an IRL chassis would make more sense. Plenty of DFVs and IRL engines floating around, for pennies compared with a recent F1 rebuild.