Kimi Antonelli rookie card sells for $878,400 ahead of first F1 title chance
A one-of-one Kimi Antonelli rookie card has sold for $878,400 at auction, days before the Mercedes driver gets his first chance to seal the Formula 1 title. It is the second most expensive F1 card ever sold, behind only the Lewis Hamilton card that fetched $900,000 in 2022. The auction drew 34 bids.
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Um card rookie de Kimi Antonelli, o único do tipo, foi vendido por 878.400 dólares em leilão, dias antes de o piloto da Mercedes ter a primeira chance de fechar o título da Fórmula 1. O valor faz dele o segundo card de F1 mais caro já vendido.
O F1 Autographs SuperFractor 2025 da Topps Chrome, exemplar 1/1 com nota GEM MINT 10 da PSA, recebeu 34 lances no Goldin, onde a venda foi fechada em 17 de outubro. Existe apenas uma cópia, assinada por Antonelli em tinta azul e finalizada com o tratamento dourado SuperFractor da Topps. O Goldin o apresentou como o “Santo Graal” da carreira dele na F1.
Levantamento do Card Ladder, publicado pela Sports Illustrated, coloca um único card de F1 acima: o SuperFractor F1 2020 da Topps Chrome de Lewis Hamilton, um 1/1 com nota PSA 7, que recebeu 900 mil dólares no Goldin em maio de 2022. O card de Antonelli ficou 21.600 dólares abaixo daquela marca.
Nenhum outro card esportivo foi vendido por mais naquela semana. Também foi mais de quatro vezes o recorde anterior dele: um card patch rookie da Topps Dynasty que alcançou 201.910 dólares, igualmente no Goldin.
O mesmo leilão do Goldin ofereceu ainda um segundo card de Antonelli: o F1 Red Refractor 2025 da Topps Chrome, peça 5/5 com nota PSA 9. Segundo o perfil de colecionador Strictly Turn One, ele rendeu 128.100 dólares, depois de ter sido vendido por 5.000 dólares no eBay em fevereiro.
A demanda subiu com Antonelli perto do título apenas na segunda temporada dele. Ele chega a Austin com 102 pontos de vantagem sobre George Russell, companheiro na Mercedes, e pode levar o campeonato no domingo se vencer enquanto Russell termina fora do top 8 e Lewis Hamilton fora do top 4.
Aos 20 anos, ele seria o campeão mundial mais jovem da Fórmula 1, superando a marca que Sebastian Vettel estabeleceu em 2010.
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