McLaren is selling five historic Formula 1 cars with a potential combined value of £50 million, aiming at collectors who want to own a piece of racing history. The sale is being managed by dealer Tom Hartley Jnr, who previously oversaw the sale of Bernie Ecclestone’s car collection, which was reportedly worth around £250 million.

McLaren has kept all five vehicles since they last raced, and the team will prepare them for their new owners. The lineup spans 32 years of McLaren history. No official prices have been set, though reports suggest each car is listed between £5 million and £10 million.

The headline act is a pair of 1991 MP4/6As, which belong to the season Ayrton Senna won his third and final world title. Numbers 4 and 7 are available, and Senna tested both, while Gerhard Berger raced them. The collection also includes the 2012 MP4/27A, which won seven races with Jenson Button and Lewis Hamilton at the wheel. The remaining cars are the 2021 MCL35M, driven by Daniel Ricciardo to victory at Monza, and the 2023 MCL37A driven by Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri.

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McLaren boss Zak Brown says the team is parting with the cars because leaving them in storage does them a disservice. In his view, they were built to be driven and raced, and getting them out with enthusiastic owners is the best way to keep the team’s heritage alive.

Hartley says it’s unusual for collectors to get race-driven grand prix cars straight from the team that built them, and he believes values still have room to rise. The cars are being offered individually, but a single buyer taking all five isn’t out of the question, as happened with both the Ecclestone collection and the one belonging to the late McLaren shareholder Mansour Ojjeh. Hartley says there’s no rush to sell.