YouTuber’s Crashed McLaren Senna Turns Up At Insurance Auction

The story of that viral McLaren Senna crash rumbles on, as the wrecked car will soon be up for sale with an auction company specialising in insurance losses.

Following a video of the crash going viral and its owner, YouTuber Edmond Barseghian, apparently admitting to being the driver in a post on his now-private Instagram account, the wrecked Senna has turned up at the North Hollywood premises of Insurance Auto Auctions, less than 20 miles from the site of the accident.

Barseghian acquired the car earlier this year, posting a video of the acquisition to his channel mere days before the crash. In it, he calls it “the only 1/1 Kiwi Edition McLaren Senna in the world,” although the only references to it being a ‘Kiwi Edition’ seem to be in relation to Barseghian, and it doesn’t appear to be a real designation ever given to the car by McLaren (the original McLaren logo featured a Kiwi as the team’s founder, Bruce McLaren, was a New Zealander).

The video that shed all the wrong kinds of attention on the car showed it launching into a doughnut in the middle of Venture Boulevard, a busy Los Angeles thoroughfare, before proceeding with the tyres still lit, snapping to the right and spearing over the pavement and into a Lexus dealership. Barseghian apparently fessed up to being the driver in a post on his now-private Instagram account. In the same post, he also says that the car was a write-off but that he’s prepared to pay any amount to have it repaired, says Carscoops.

If that is the case, then it looks like he’ll have to buy it back first. IAA’s listing gives us a much better look at the damage to the Senna. The front end is well and truly destroyed, with all the carbon fibre bodywork gone and much of the car’s frame exposed. It also suffered some less extensive damage to the sides and rear, with the right rear tyre popped and the rear bumper starting to come away. The deployed airbags are visible on the inside.

IAA currently lists the car as ‘not ready for sale,’ and doesn’t give any indication of how much it might go for. While it’s a rather sad sight, a car as rare and valuable as a Senna will most likely be repaired rather than scrapped. We hope whoever’s responsible for that – Barseghian or otherwise – decides to explore its full potential somewhere sensible in future.