Equipment
6064/627hp BMW V12, 6-speed.
Condition
390 km (242 miles), and the only one finished in this color. Chassis 029 first went to a private collection in Japan, until the consignor moved it to the United States. Includes its original tool chest, fitted luggage, and TAG Heuer 6000 McLaren F1 chronometer.
Market commentary
82 automobiles sold for $1M or more at Monterey 2021. One of the two most anticipated cars of the auctions, the brown-on-brown hypercar sold for $20,465,000. A lot of brown for a lot of green, but also a world record price for the model at auction (others may have sold for more privately), just shy of its condition #1 (“concours”) value in the Hagerty Price Guide, and by far the highest price in a week of high prices. F1s officially became eight-figure cars in the mid-2010s, and their condition #2 values in the Hagerty Price Guide have risen 497 percent over the past decade. That appreciation is evident even if you narrow your focus to Monterey: In 2019 the high sale of the week brought “just” $19.805M, even though it was arguably a more special LeMans-spec car.