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Sold for over R500 million, this distinctly liveried, road-legal McLaren F1 GTR was owned for 25 years by Pink Floyd’s Nick Mason. While elsewhere at the 2026 Monterey Speed Week, Gordon Murray Automotive unveiled its latest homage to the car its South African-born founder famously designed, the GMA S1, this year’s RM Sotheby’s Auction, which forms part of this prestigious California-based week on the automotive calendar, welcomed one of the finest examples of Murray’s creations, the so-called “Pop Art” McLaren F1 GTR. Convinced by customers to build race-ready examples of its first road car, the F1, McLaren stunned the world when its F1 GTR claimed overall victory on debut at the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans. In the face of challenges from the likes of the Porsche GT1, McLaren brought a lighter, faster and more focused F1 GTR to the 1996 event. Nine examples of this fastest F1 ever created were built, with chassis 10R, complete with its Blood Red paint finish with contrasting yellow “96 GTR” graphics, going on to become the most notable. Converted to be road-legal by McLaren and subsequently registered as “K40 MCL” in 1999, the car was sold to Nick Mason, the drummer of iconic British band Pink Floyd and an avid car collector. Meticulously maintained and, indeed, restored after a minor accident by Lanzante Limited, chassis 10R, or the Pop Art McLaren F1 GTR as it’s become known, arrived at the Monterey Auction with just 1 038 km on the odometer. On the day, one of the finest examples of the McLaren F1 lineage in existence sold for $34 655 000, or around R560 million at the current Rand-Dollar exchange rate. Browse thousands of new and used vehicles here with CARmag!