Collectors & Aficionados
Ecclestone's Collection Finds a New Home with Red Bull's Mateschitz. Thank you, Mark!
Mark Mateschitz honors his late father by acquiring Bernie Ecclestone’s historic F1 collection, securing Red Bull’s motorsport legacy. Red Bull, now a leading F1 constructor, will also produce its own engines from 2026.
Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula 1 collection represents something unique: not only the most significant and often rare single-seaters that tell the story of 70 years of the World Championship, but above all, the cars chosen, restored, and cared for by the man who transformed Formula 1 into a global success, preparing it for today’s reality. As if to say: cars chosen and preserved as a living document of an extraordinary history.
The risk that this collection might be dispersed existed. Now, no longer: Mark Mateschitz, the son of Dietrich Mateschitz — the man who turned the Red Bull energy drink into a global brand through sports, particularly Formula 1 — has, with this decision, first and foremost, paid tribute to his recently deceased father. But there is more: he has laid the foundation to give the Red Bull team the place it deserves in the history of top-tier motorsport. The Ecclestone collection, in fact, reaches the years when the Austrian brand started becoming a constructor after being a long-time sponsor.
