Actor’s crashed McLaren supercar racks up £900,000 bill
Insurers have paid out the largest ever sum for a car crash repair to fix Rowan Atkinson’s £3m McLaren F1.
The Mr Bean star escaped with an injured shoulder after losing control of the 240mph car on a slippery section of the A605 near Peterborough in August 2011.
Most of the back of the car was destroyed, and the 6.1 litre engine landed 20 yards away.
Mechanics at McLaren’s Woking base took a year to repair the supercar.
The £900,000 bill was three times higher than the previous record payout by Aviva in 2010.
Atkinson bought the car for £647,000 in1997. He is again driving the car, and said that slipping into the driving seat was like “putting a familiar sweater on”.
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