Shmee150 reveals why he\u2019s scared to drive his \u201cspecial\u201d McLaren Senna YouTube: Shmee150Tim \u2018Shmee150\u2019 Burton has revealed he\u2019s \u201cscared\u201d to drive one of his favorite cars, the blue McLaren Senna, admitting the amount of money and time it would take to repair the limited release model is \u201calways on his mind.\u201d Named after the three-time Formula 1 champion Ayrton Senna, the Senna is the third edition to the McLaren Ultimate Series. For some though \u2014 including, of course, Shmee \u2014 the 2017 release is the British manufacturer\u2019s greatest work. That prestige has sent prices skyrocketing since it was unveiled just over two years ago. The 005-edition sold for an estimated \u00a31.2 million at the 48th Scottsdale auction in January this year. That\u2019s nearly 50% more than its 2017 price. Considering how rare the Sennas are, it\u2019s no wonder Shmee admitted he\u2019s \u201cpretty nervous\u201d about taking his own out for a spin. Add to that a lorry driver accidentally put a serious dent in his last year, and he\u2019s got some pretty valid concerns. \u201cI haven\u2019t really driven it after what happened last summer\u2026 the incident in July,\u201d he admitted as he took his Senna out of the garage in an April 1 video. According to Burton, the crash hiked up a \u201chuge\u201d bill, even though the damage was all \u201cpurely cosmetic.\u201d There were cracks on the right rear mirror, while the door had been smashed right down the middle. The back panel was also smashed. Now, nearly a year later, that shocking incident still plays out in his mind. There was nothing he could have done differently, considering he was simply driving to the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Nothing, that is, except not drive it. \u201cAlthough it was fairly cosmetic \u2014 it was mainly just some body panels that needed repairing \u2014 [the crash] still meant the car was off the road for five months. That\u2019s always on the back of my mind,\u201d the YouTuber admitted. \u201cIf something happened, that is potentially going to be repeated. That gives me a fair bit of stress, I\u2019m not going to lie. The value of the car, how difficult it is to repair, and how special it is, is always on the back of my mind. \u201cI guess I\u2019m always conscious that I want to drive it on very specific occasions\u2026 I don\u2019t want to drive it just for the sake of driving it, like I did that one fateful day where I was just on the motorway in traffic. We were doing 15-20 miles an hour!\u201d For mobile readers, the related segment begins at 8:18 in the video below. That\u2019s not to say he\u2019ll never take it out again. His April 1 video \u2014 filmed before self-isolation began \u2014 obviously saw him take it out for a spin. He has only done \u201caround 150 miles since that day,\u201d he added, but he wants to add more. \u201cI will try and take it out to events across Europe, when I can again\u2026 but that\u2019s off the cards now,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s likely though, honestly, that this will be a high-miler. That\u2019s just how it is with cars like this. I\u2019ll savor those moments.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Shmee150 reveals why he\u2019s scared to drive his \u201cspecial\u201d McLaren Senna YouTube: Shmee150Tim \u2018Shmee150\u2019 Burton has revealed he\u2019s \u201cscared\u201d to drive one of his favorite cars, the blue McLaren Senna, admitting the amount of money and time it would take to repair the limited release model is \u201calways on his mind.\u201d Named after the three-time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}