Leigh’s Diecast Diary

It would seem that my Kimi Raikkonen jinx is still alive and well! I guess it had problems with its visa when I went to Australia, and was unable to follow me all the way out there!

I was sat at the first corner at Barcelona, and was half expecting a riot when Massa and Alonso had their moment at turn one! I thought it was just a racing incident, and was more concerned with Raikkonen once again losing a place off the start. Nine laps later it was all over for him anyway, and although it’s the sixth time I’ve seen him retire it never gets any easier!

As I’ve said though, I’m just as much an F1 fan as a Kimi fan, and there were still plenty of good stories to follow such as Hamilton taking the lead in the championship (the youngest driver ever to do so), Coulthard driving a superb race and even Super Aguri scoring their first point, courtesy of Takuma Sato. Also, as an Ayrton Senna fan since the age of nine, it was nice to see Bruno Senna win the GP2 race on Saturday afternoon.

I came back today to some unwelcome news from Minichamps. You already know that the Rossi dirty Mugello Honda (PO16186) has now been put back to August (see 11th May), but it also seems that we will only get a part-shipment of his Donington First Win Honda (PO06196) at the beginning of June.

This will not nearly be enough to cover all our pre-orders, and as ever we will operate a ‘first come, first served’ policy, and then have to wait for a second delivery to fulfil our remaining customer orders. No confirmed date has yet been given for the second delivery.

Finally, we were told some time ago that the 1:43 Mansell/Senna Silverstone taxi (P914305) would arrive with us in May. When we didn’t see it in Minichamps’ May release schedule we asked them for an update, and have now been told that the date is not correct anymore. Hopefully, we will soon be given an update on when we can expect to receive this long-awaited replica.