{"id":257658,"date":"2025-11-02T13:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257658\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T13:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T13:43:09","slug":"iconic-ayrton-senna-mclaren-set-to-be-sold-in-eye-watering-multi-million-auction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/257658\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Ayrton Senna McLaren set to be sold in eye-watering multi-million auction"},"content":{"rendered":"

More than anything, Ayrton Senna wanted to win the Brazilian Grand Prix for his adoring home crowd, but by 1991, he had still not delivered.<\/p>\n

But the McLaren-Honda MP4-6 would change all that in a defiant heroic stand from Senna, whose car developed gearbox gremlins, leaving him stuck in sixth gear as light rain began to fall at Interlagos, as Riccardo Patrese reeled him in.<\/p>\n

Fortunately, the flag came in time for the exhausted Senna, who required extraction from his McLaren, such was the physical effort involved in man-handling the iconic car around.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And that very machine, McLaren MP4-6, chassis #1, is now up for sale by RM Sotheby’s, and is expected to fetch up to $15 million USD, or \u00a311.5 million GBP.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

It was driven by Senna and team-mate Gerhard Berger in pre-season testing, and is the only V12-powered car to win the F1 drivers’ and constructors’ championship, as well as being the last machine with a manual gearbox to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The car has been in private hands since 2020, with this owner now selling up and looking to cash in on the prized asset.<\/p>\n

It is not the most expensive F1 car ever sold at auction, with that honour going to a Mercedes W196 streamliner driven by Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss, which sold for \u00a342.75 million earlier this year.<\/p>\n

Check out some images of the iconic car below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than anything, Ayrton Senna wanted to win the Brazilian Grand Prix for his adoring home crowd, but…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-257658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}