McLaren built 500 Sennas, and most buyers spent heavily to make sure theirs didn’t look like anyone else’s. Senna No. 144 took a different route: it copies a race car. It wears the McLaren F1 FINA livery, and it’s now sitting at a Porsche dealership in California with an asking price just under $3 million.
The car
Broad Arrow’s auction catalog listing identifies the car by chassis number SBM15ACA2KW800144 and as Senna 144 of 500. The auction house says it’s one of three Sennas ordered through McLaren Special Operations (MSO) in the FINA scheme. That livery comes from the McLaren F1 GTR Longtail, chassis 17R, which Nelson Piquet drove at the 1997 24 Hours of Le Mans.
So one Brazilian three-time Formula 1 champion’s Le Mans colors now sit on a car named for another. Six world titles, one paint job.
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The paper trail is fairly complete. According to the catalog, the car was delivered new in Palo Alto, California, and first registered in Los Altos in January 2019. Dealer service records run through 2020. After that, it passed through owners in Saskatchewan and Florida before the most recent consignor bought it in June 2026.
The car comes with its owner’s books in the original Ghurka leather pouch. That detail matters more than it sounds, because missing books are one of the first things a hypercar buyer flags.
The odyssey
Broad Arrow offered the Senna at its Quail Lodge sale in Carmel in August as Lot 227, with an estimate of $2.35 million to $2.85 million. The listing doesn’t show a hammer price. Whatever happened in Carmel, the same VIN is now listed at Porsche San Luis Obispo for $2,984,888 plus an $85 doc fee. The color is listed as “McLaren F1 FINA Livery, Pearl White with Red and B,” cut off mid-word by the dealer’s own system.
For perspective, Broad Arrow is also selling a Swiss-delivered Senna in Zürich next month with an estimate of CHF 1.1 million to CHF 1.4 million. That puts the FINA car’s asking price at roughly double what a nicely optioned standard Senna is expected to bring. So the seller is charging about $1.5 million for a paint scheme. That isn’t necessarily crazy, since collectors routinely pay big premiums for history and rarity. But it’s the whole bet here.
Read the fine print
A few details deserve a closer look before anyone wires money.
“Reportedly.” Broad Arrow’s catalog says the car is reportedly one of three. That’s auction-house language for “we were told this but haven’t independently confirmed it.” Since the livery is the entire reason for the premium, a serious buyer should ask McLaren for the original MSO build documentation confirming the scheme was factory-applied, how many cars received it, and what it cost. If MSO confirms “one of three” in writing, it’s worth real money. If it can’t, it’s an expensive story.
The odometer. Broad Arrow listed 7,818 miles at cataloging in August. The dealer listing now shows 7,788 miles, which is 30 fewer. That’s almost certainly a typo or a reading taken at a different time, but a careful buyer should photograph the gauge cluster and match it against the CARFAX and the service records anyway.
The miles themselves. Nearly 7,800 miles is a lot by hypercar-auction standards, where buyers often favor cars with only a few hundred miles. In this case, though, it shows the car has actually been driven, and gaps in the Senna’s maintenance history would be the bigger red flag. The catalog documents dealer servicing only through 2020. Any buyer should get records covering the Canadian and Florida years as well.
The repair problem nobody budgets for
A bespoke multi-color livery on carbon fiber bodywork makes even minor repairs expensive. With a standard paint color, a body shop can match a scuffed panel. With the FINA scheme, any repair has to reproduce the exact colors and the precise placement of every stripe and logo, ideally with MSO’s input.
The Senna’s light weight is also part of the issue. Broad Arrow quotes a dry weight of 2,641 pounds, and much of that lightness comes from complex carbon panels that can’t be pulled off a shelf.
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That makes insurance a key part of owning this car. A standard policy that pays out based on market value won’t capture the premium the livery adds, and a big claim could leave the owner badly short. An agreed-value policy, backed by an appraisal that specifically documents the MSO livery, is the minimum sensible coverage.
The verdict
Broad Arrow’s catalog quotes 0-62 mph in 2.8 seconds, 0-124 mph in 6.8 seconds, 0-186 mph in 17.5 seconds, and a top speed of about 211 mph. Every one of the 500 Sennas does that. What this car offers on top is a direct visual link between McLaren’s endurance racing history at Le Mans and the driver whose name is on the car.
Whether that link is worth $1.5 million more than a standard Senna depends on MSO’s documentation, not on the paint itself. Would you pay roughly $1.5 million extra for Piquet’s Le Mans colors, or buy a standard Senna and spend the difference on something that isn’t paint?
Images Via: Broad Arrow Auctions
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