second bid $16 million,
a private collector – believed to be Lawrence Stroll, a retail magnate behind the Tommy Hilfiger fashion label – secured the car after a frantic round of bidding,
Ferrari historian Marcel Massini, who was at the auction said: ‘Everybody was speechless.’ I bet they were, the $27.5 million that Stroll laid out represents a record-high for a car sold at auction in the US and the second-best tally for any car at auction, just trailing the $29.7M paid for a 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 driven by Juan Manuel Fangio, but what a huge gesture from the sellers to donate the proceeds to charity.
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