Twice-Crashed McLaren F1 GTR Fetches $34.655 Million as British Auction Record Falls
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Updated · CarScoops · Aug 18
Twice-Crashed McLaren F1 GTR Fetches $34.655 Million as British Auction Record Falls
3 articles · Updated · CarScoops · Aug 18
Summary
$34.655 million bought McLaren F1 GTR chassis 10R at RM Sotheby’s, making it the most expensive McLaren F1 and British car ever sold at public auction.
The result came despite two crashes—one in 2009 when a journalist put it into a wheat field, and another in 2017 when former owner Nick Mason crashed it at Goodwood.
Chassis 10R is one of nine 1996 F1 GTRs built, served as a McLaren promotional and Le Mans pre-qualifying test car, and was later converted for road use and maintained by Lanzante.
Its unique red-and-yellow livery, rarity and Mason provenance underscored how strongly collectors still value the F1, even when a car has a repaired competition history.