The star driver announced the news on his Instagram account on Monday morning: 

"McLaren P1 up for sale so that someone else can enjoy her. It’s a tough decision but living in America I don’t really get the chance to drive this beauty, I did give her a final blast up to Silverstone for WEC last month though!"

He told Autocar earlier this year that the P1 was a car he loved for 'its slightly snarly on-the-limit behaviour'. The dealer selling the car claims that it's a unique '1 of 1 example' with custom order 'Grauschwartz Grey' paint, interior colour combination and road legal ‘Track Mode 2’ options. 

How much? Well, as they say if you need to ask you can't afford it. But as a guide, a 2015 example sold at auction in America earlier this year for US$1.7 million (£1.3 million). The car is being sold by Steve Hurn Cars, based in Suffolk. 

But the P1 is far from the only interesting car Button has owned over the years - when we caught up with him recently while he was promoting his new book, Jenson Button: Life to the Limit, we couldn’t resist asking him about his car collection, past and present - let's take a look at it: