Every year, F1 teams design and build a new set of cars to start the new season. So what happens to the old cars. Well, that varies, but when the car in question just won the championship, it's usually kept intact. Sometimes the team keeps it for posterity, sometimes they gift it to the driver who'd just won them the title, sometimes they end up in museum or private collections. But not this one.
After Ayrton Senna won his third and final title in 1991, McLaren dismantled the MP4x6 with which he did it and gave the parts to an artist named Jay Burridge, who in turn transformed the car into the art installation you see here.
Autoblog, Ayrton Senna's title-winning McLaren MP4x6 up for auction in unique art installation
