One of Michael Schumacher's most iconic cars, the 1998 Ferrari, is on sale with an asking price of a cool $4.9m currently on it.

The Formula 1 legend won seven world championships during his time in the sport and five of those came with Ferrari between 2000 and 2004.

He went close in other years for the Scuderia, though, including in 1997 and 1998, with him battling perhaps his biggest rival of all in the latter season; Mika Hakkinen.

It was, of course, the Finn who won the championship at Suzuka in a dramatic Japanese Grand Prix that season after a year of to and fro between the two drivers and Schumacher certainly had his own high points, including in Hungary earlier on in the campaign.

Needing to make a 25-second gap over 19 laps to ensure victory after a round of pit-stops at the Budapest circuit, Schumacher produced a stunning drive at the wheel of this particular Ferrari chassis that is on sale, with him adhering to Ross Brawn's words that they needed qualifying levels of pace to take the win.

That is what Schumacher delivered, too, with him eventually winning the race by nine seconds ahead of David Coulthard in the other McLaren and Jacques Villeneuve.

The same 1998 chassis would be used at the Japanese Grand Prix but, after stalling on the line and then fighting through the field to only then pick up a puncture, the German had to concede the title to Hakkinen at Suzuka.