F1 plates take pole position at auction.
The eagerly-awaited sell-off of Formula One-related UK car registration plates stole the show at the latest DVLA auction, appropriately held at WilliamsF1's conference centre, last week.
With a number of highly-desirable plates - including F1 FAN and F1 NUT - attracting attention from motorsport fans across the globe, bidding was always likely to be fierce, with those two plates alone earning more than ?70,000 after being snapped as part of a four-plate haul by performance vehicle hire entrepreneur Raj Dhuna, who also acquired F1 ACE and F1 GPX for his fleet of Ferraris.
The eagerly-awaited sell-off of Formula One-related UK car registration plates stole the show at the latest DVLA auction, appropriately held at WilliamsF1's conference centre, last week.
With a number of highly-desirable plates - including F1 FAN and F1 NUT - attracting attention from motorsport fans across the globe, bidding was always likely to be fierce, with those two plates alone earning more than ?70,000 after being snapped as part of a four-plate haul by performance vehicle hire entrepreneur Raj Dhuna, who also acquired F1 ACE and F1 GPX for his fleet of Ferraris.
The star lot, however, was F1 PRO, which sold to businessman Stuart Ross for ?10,200. Like Dhuna, the buyer intends to fit the plate to a Ferrari, albeit in this case an F40. Meanwhile, F1 MAD went to Michael Andrew Drury, the owner of a business supplying specialist equipment to motorsport teams - and who is apparently nicknamed 'Mad' on the grand prix circuit. The plate sold for ?6000.
