McLaren F1 GTR

And they let McLaren know that if the factory wouldn't help, They'd built the race cars themselves.

So McLaren gave in and started converting the road car into the GT1 racer, called the F1 GTR.

Here's what that conversion looked like, because the road car was already so light and so stiff they barely had to touch the structure, as you'd probably guess.

The rules forced air restrictors onto the engine, which actually cut the power down from 627 to about 600.

They swapped in carbon race brakes, added a wing and a splitter, bonded in a roll cage, and that was close to it.

The race car was most of the way there out of the showroom.

In June of 1995, seven F1 GTRs lined up at the 24 Hours of Le Mans against cars that had been purpose-built for only one purpose.

To race.

expect that.

Uh, uh, So technically, the second highest non-charity sale was the 1996 McLaren F1 GTR at RM that sold for $34.655 million.

Good God.

Do you think that that sale will affect the market for, you know, standard F1s?

of who can outdo someone.

So the poor chap that paid $34, $35 million for Nick Mason's F1 GTR probably thought he was the biggest cock in the room.

And then the following day, someone spent $40 million on

a Luce.

It was a supercar, and it had some racing provenance.

It was used in testing at Le Mans.

It was the first of the McLaren F1 GTRs.

And it used to be owned by Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason.

He of the famed car collection and great drum set.

So for example, there was a Ferrari 250 GTO that someone paid Aussie $54.4 million for.

And at the same event, the Monterey Car Week this year, there was a McLaren F1 GTR 1996 model that was $48.9 million.

So the Luche rolled out.

I'm not sure about this part.

I hope that that $40 million makes a difference because good God, you spent it on a Ferrari Luce.

Dude, a, a, an F1 GTR that was sold, that was owned by Nick Mason, which was sold at the same exact auction, went for $6 million less.

And I'm not saying that we should be spending $34 million on an F1.

I'm not saying that.