Still saving for a McLaren F1? You'll need to try harder as they've hit £6.2 million

A McLaren F1 road car has been sold to a British buyer for a reported £6.2 million, making it the most expensive McLaren F1 sold to date.

This McLaren F1 sold for $10 million

The price of the McLaren F1 keeps on rising, and just last year F1 chassis #66 was sold by Gooding and Co in the US for a then record-breaking £5.42 million. But that record seems to have been broken.

Ferrari specialists DK Engineering in Hertfordshire have just spent six months tracking down an F1 for a British buyer, culminating in chassis #28 being sold for a reported £6.2 million ($10 million).

We don’t know if that £6.2 million included import duty and VAT (if applicable) but the headline price is certainly the highest price we’re aware of for an F1 to date.

McLaren F1 #28 was originally owned by then McLaren driver Michael Andretti, and son of the more famous Mario Andretti, who was given it by McLaren as an incentive to end his contract, and is one of only two to be delivered in Red.

Unfortunately for Michael, the F1 wasn’t then road-legal in the US so he sold it to a Japanese collector since when it’s been in the hands of two owners in the US before coming back home after this purchase by a deep-pocketed Brit.

Yet more evidence that the McLaren F1 is fast becoming the next Ferrari 250 GTO.