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Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason crashes his McLaren F1 at Goodwood

Call it a momentary lapse of reason? Whatever the cause, Pink Floyd's drummer Nick Mason has the same ordeal ahead of him as Rowan Atkinson: taking a crashed McLaren F1 to Woking for some bodywork. At the 75 th Goodwood Members' Meeting, Mason took his 1995 McLaren F1 GTR onto the track, and sadly bounced it off the wall in a none-too-glamorous fashion. The impact can be seen in the end of this clip featuring a very nice-looking Ferrari F40. Mason's car is one of 28 road legal F1 GTRs. We're still using the present tense, because while massaging the F1 back into shape will undoubtedly cost a pretty penny, it's all worth it. Rowan Atkinson's 2011 shunt in his non-GTR 1997 F1 cost $1.4 million to repair, and the Blackadder/Mr. Bean star sold his car in 2015 for $12 million! If the valuation of Atkinson's twice-crashed regular-specification car was all down to his star power, it is likely Mason's prog rock celebrity status also guarantees the GTR's worth. The Drive says the car was worth $3,7 million – a conservative valuation. Mason's distinctive red-and-yellow GTR has been featured in the automotive media a lot over the years, which makes it even more of a shame to see it all banged up. We wish both the driver and the car a speedy recovery. Related Video: This content is hosted by a third party. To view it, please update your privacy preferences. Manage Settings. Image Credit: JMann880/Youtube Celebrities McLaren Videos mclaren f1 gtr nick mason

ATM customers push the Jenson Button to meet their Secret Santander

We all know the drill: you need cash, you go to an ATM, you push some buttons and out come the bills, deducted from your checking account. But some customers at European bank Santander got a bit of a surprise when they were asked to use a new type of automatic teller and push the Jenson Button. Putting the Santa in Santander, the 2009 Formula One World Champion hid inside an ATM in England and dispersed gifts from the bank to a fortunate few of its customers. It's a good gag, one that puts the bank in good light and spreads a bit of holiday cheer. In case you're wondering what Santander has to do with Button and F1, note that the Spanish-owned banking group has, since 2008, sponsored the McLaren team for which Button drives. Not unlike Marlboro, it started sponsoring the Ferrari team in 2010 when Fernando Alonso signed with the Italian team, but though Santander initially planned on severing ties with the British team when it switched to the Scuderia, it's stuck with McLaren over the years. And with Alonso now returning to Woking, we wouldn't be surprised to see the bank step up to an even more prominent role with the team. News Source: Santander via YouTube, Racer Celebrities Marketing/Advertising McLaren Videos santander

McLaren taunts us with two supercars we can't have

Most of the supercars we're seeing at the Geneva Motor Show are well beyond our reach, but they're usually obtainable for a truckload of cash. Not the P1 or 675LT Spider. Both are sold out. Alongside the new 570GT, McLaren arrived at the Geneva Palexpo this year with two supercars that are entirely sold out. Chief among them is the P1 that McLaren Special Operations has completely redone in bare carbon fiber – albeit lacquered in blue and fitted with a 24-karat gold heatshield, just like on the original McLaren F1. Of course, since the P1 is all sold out, we can't have one, but MSO is still catering to the existing owners by offering this sort of upgrades. Joining it is the 675LT Spider which – like the P1 – is also completely sold out. Fans of Woking's finest will recall that the 675LT Spider followed the coupe, which was in turn based on the same underpinnings as the 650S and the 12C before it in McLaren's mid-level Super Series. As with the 675LT coupe, the Spider packs a more powerful version of the company's 3.8-liter twin-turbo V8, propelling it from a standstill to 62 miles per hour in just 2.9 seconds. Related Video: