Filed under: Auctions, Design/Style, Racing
Every year,
F1 teams design and build a new set of cars to start the new season. So what happens to the old cars? Well, that varies, but when the car in question just won the championship, it's usually kept intact. Sometimes the team keeps it for posterity, sometimes they gift it to the driver who'd just won them the title, sometimes they end up in museum or private collections. But not this one.
After
Ayrton Senna won his third and final title in 1991,
McLaren dismantled the MP4/6 with which he did it and gave the parts to an artist named Jay Burridge, who in turn transformed the car into the art installation you see here. Looking like a giant model kit, it would be enough to turn heads on its own even if it weren't such an historic specimen. And now it's going up for auction.
Coys is the house that will handle its sale, the Nürburgring is the location and August 13 is the date. That's when Coys expects it will fetch between £30,000 and £50,000 ($50k-$82k). Which on the one hand seems like a lot, but on the other seems like a bargain considering the car it was built from.
Follow the jump for the press release.
Continue reading Ayrton Senna's title-winning McLaren MP4/6 up for auction in unique art installation
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