2021 Honda 'Red Bull F1' Paddock Bike

“ This is Sergio Perez's personal Red Bull F1 Paddock transport. ”
This is a very capable and eminently practical machine. It has a top speed of about 65mph, a claimed average fuel consumption of 125mpg, a range of 199 miles, and 28 litres of on-board storage.

Background
Part of Honda’s scooter and moped line-up since 2005, the SH125i has been Europe’s best-selling scooter for many of the intervening years.

Equipped from the year 2020 with a lively and exceptionally reliable Euro 5-compliant 124.5cc liquid-cooled four-valve eSP+ engine, the scooter featured a fuel-saving ‘stop-start’ system, Honda’s Selectable Torque Control (HSTC), which helps prevent rear wheel slippage.

The post-2020 SH125i offered a lot of tech for the money.

In addition to stop-start and HSTC (both of which could be deactivated at any time by the rider), buyers got ABS brakes, LED lights, a USB charger, an LCD display cluster and a Honda ‘Smart Key’ keyless ignition system.

None of which comes close to suggesting what makes this fabulous scooter quite so unique.

Overview
As all F1 fans out there will know, the fastest vehicles at any F1 circuit are - in order of swiftness - the F1 cars, the safety car, and the nippy little scooters that F1 drivers use to zip around the pit lane and the paddock.

We’ve all seen them. They look like a lot of fun.

The vendor, who collects all sorts of classic and other automotive bits and pieces, has decided that this is a collector niche he’d like to explore – which is why he has a number of these fabulous little pit lane and paddock scooters.

The super-low mileage example we have for you today was originally registered to Red Bull Racing and was the personal paddock and pit lane transport for a certain Sergio Michel ‘Checo’ Pérez Mendoza – better known to the wider world as Sergio Pérez or, more affectionately, just ‘Checo’.

And affection is the right work to apply to ‘Checo’, who is still racing in F1 today (Cadillac) and is one of the few F1 drivers about whom no-one has a bad word to say.

Everybody loves ‘Checo’.

And this was his scooter, as the Red Bull livery, ‘Checo’ badge, and number 11 decals testify.

Incidentally, Pérez’s ‘11’ race number is an homage to one of his childhood heroes, footballer Ivan Zamorano, who wore the number on his shirt in his final season playing for Perez's favourite team, Club America.

So, now you know.

The bike starts, runs and, as far as we can tell, everything does what it’s supposed to do in a timely and faithful manner.

An engine light is currently showing on the display, but our less than extensive knowledge of Honda scooter warning lights doesn’t allow us to know what it might mean.

Probably very little, given the bike’s excellent overall condition and tiny mileage of just 82 miles.

Estimate: £4,000 - £7,000

View The Current Bid Price HERE