A Ferrari Enzo direct from the personal assortment of two-time Method 1 world champion Fernando Alonso was offered at a Monaco public sale earlier this month.

The ultimate worth paid, together with the client’s charge, was a staggering 5.4 million euros (roughly $5.9 million). That is extra that double what Enzos usually promote for, even with right now’s inflated costs for traditional and specialty vehicles.

The superstar possession was little doubt one issue that juiced this explicit Enzo’s worth at public sale. Alonso even left a video message that was performed through the sale.

“It means loads to me, and I’ve had a good time with the automotive…it’s a magic piece of artwork,” he mentioned within the video. “I do know that it’s going to be in good fingers…please maintain the automotive and luxuriate in it.”

Fernando Alonso along with his Ferrari Enzo – Photograph credit score: Monaco Automobile Auctions

Nonetheless, the automotive additionally boasts the primary accomplished Enzo physique—Scocca no.1—which means it is one of many earliest Enzos constructed. The provenance is confirmed by the automotive’s Ferrari Classiche pink e-book, in response to Monaco Automobile Auctions, which dealt with the sale.

Ferrari constructed simply 400 Enzo street vehicles, plus 30 Enzo-derived FXX observe vehicles. Alonso’s Enzo is completed in Ferrari’s signature Rosso Corsa pink and has simply 2,982 miles on the odometer, though it is not clear what number of of these miles have been really added by Alonso, who drove for the Ferrari F1 group between 2010 and 2014 and right now drives for Aston Martin.

Named after firm founder Enzo Ferrari, the Enzo was Ferrari’s flagship supercar of the early 2000s, choosing up the place the F40 and F50 left off. Amongst different issues, it was notable for a carbon-fiber monocoque chassis and paddle-shifted transmission—customary fare in supercars right now however pretty novel on the time. That transmission is paired with a 6.0-liter V-12 that spits out 650 hp and can hustle the Enzo from 0-62 mph in 3.6 seconds on to a high pace of 217 mph.

Additionally on the public sale was a 1956 Ferrari 250 GT Boano that offered for 1,512,000 euros ($1.65 million), together with the client’s charge. The automotive is one in every of a complete 14 examples of the alloy-bodied coupes, and was raced on the 1956 Nassau Governor’s Trophy with buyer racer Jan de Vroom behind the wheel.