The Most Exciting Announcement of the Day Award Goes to….
There were announcements from Minichamps, Kyosho and Spark today.
Kyosho probably won the award for the most exciting announcement, with the news that it will be replicating two variants of the Audi R8 road car in 1:18 scale. One will be blue with a silver ‘blade’ (KY9213BL), the other will be white with a black ‘blade’ (KY9213W).
Meanwhile Minichamps announced a 1:43 replica of Mika Hakkinen’s 2006 McLaren MP4/21 testcar from Barcelona (DC26499H), and a 1:18 replica of the 2005 Bentley Continental Flying Spur in metallic blue (PG139460).
Finally, Spark announced a new 1:43 replica in the form of the black Alfa Romeo 8C from this year’s Geneva motor show (SPK394).
There won’t be an entry tomorrow or on Monday as I’ve got a long weekend in Spain for my second F1 trip of the year. With the four week break in the calendar and the three way tie for the championship lead, I cannot wait for the action to start!
Hopefully Raikkonen will do better than the last time I went to the Spanish GP, 2003, when he started at the back after going off in qualifying, and rammed Pizzonia’s stalled Jaguar on the grid, so he didn’t even get over the startline and I didn’t see him race past once! That was a sad day for me!
However, the last two times I have left the country Minichamps have then decided to announce some really exciting new subjects! If that happens again I’m sure someone will fill in for me.
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