Even one of Mason’s youngest cars is now over 25 years old. Chassis number 10R, this particular McLaren F1 was the company’s press and development car and appeared during official testing at the 1996 24 hours of Le Mans. It was later sold by McLaren to Mason, who had the race car made street-legal by UK-based McLaren specialists Lanzante. The car, which wears the registration plate K40 MCL, is used regularly and was infamously crashed by Mason at the 2017 Goodwood Members’ Meeting, before being repaired and reappearing at the Goodwood Festival of Speed in 2022.
The brainchild of Gordon Murray and intended to be the greatest-ever road car, the McLaren F1 is a three-seat supercar where the driver sits in the middle, flanked by a pair of passengers seated slightly behind.
Weighing just 2,500 lbs, the F1 is powered by a 6.1-liter engine built by BMW. Priced at roughly $1m when new, McLaren F1s are now worth in the region of $20m. The F1 still holds the record for the fastest naturally-aspirated production car, at 240 mph, and won the 24 hours of Le Mans at its first attempt in 1995.
Just 106 McLaren F1s were built, of which 28 are GTR-spec racers like the one owned by the Pink Floyd drummer. Of those just nine left the factory in the 1996 spec of Mason’s, making it an exceptionally rare car. This one being street-legal makes it even rarer still.
Stay connected with us on social media platform for instant update click here to join our Twitter, & Facebook
We are now on Telegram. Click here to join our channel (@TechiUpdate) and stay updated with the latest Technology headlines.
For all the latest Gaming News Click Here
