The chairman of presented Pope Benedict XVI with a check for $1.1 million for charity and the steering wheel from one of Michael Schumacher's Formula 1 racing car, The Associated Press reported.

Ferrari chairman Luca di Montezemolo said he was keeping a promise he made to the late Pope John Paul II during an audience in January that the company would auction off a specially constructed 400th car of the Enzo Ferrari series and donate the proceeds to charity.

The pope was also given the steering wheel of a race car driven by seven-time world champion Schumacher that bears the words: "The steering wheel of the Formula 1 world champion to His Holiness Benedict XVI, driver of Christianity," the story said.

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