F1 08’s Started! Jog On Minichamps..
I was hoping to come back into the office today to hear that Minichamps had announced all of their 2008 Formula One race cars, but we’re still waiting on that news!
If the rest of the season is anywhere near as exciting as Melbourne was though, then we’re in for a great year. There always seemed to be something going on, with Lewis Hamilton taking a pretty dominant victory and Ferrari very much on the back foot. I watched all of Kimi Raikkonen’s dramas with a mild sense of relief that he was having a hard time this year and not 12 months ago when I was out there for the race!
Talking of the Ferraris, the livery on their car is much ‘plainer’ this year, without any barcodes on the wings and in front of the cockpit, so that should mean that Mattel’s replicas of the F2008s much more accurately reflect the real car when they are released. It will be interesting to see how they treat the engine cover, whether to leave it plain red or put a white box on it as they did in the years preceding 2007.
We had a Minichamps delivery today, with two new releases on it; the 1:18 Bentley Continental Flying Spur in white (PG139461), and Valentino Rossi’s 1:43 2006 Ford Focus WRC from the Monza Rally complete with standing driver figure (P068446). Unfortunately, so far this month nothing has been added to the rather bare Minichamps March monthly release schedule as the weeks have gone by!
