17th June 2008

Rossi With A Mercedes? Senna In A Ralt? Surely There’s A Mix-Up!

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We received the new Minichamps delivery today. For me the highlight was unquestionably the latest release in the 1:43 Ayrton Senna Racing Car Collection, his 1983 British Formula Three Championship winning Ralt-Toyota RT3 (AS028).

Interestingly, although it is the 28th car so far released in the series, it is actually numbered #29 in the collection. Hopefully this means that his 1983 Macau Grand Prix winning F3 car (AS029), which we saw a sample of at Nuremberg, will be #28 and will be released shortly.

The other significant releases were Valentino Rossi’s 1:43 2006 DTM Mercedes testcar (P063646), which is limited to 4,946 pieces worldwide, and Nico Rosberg’s 1:43 2008 Williams FW29B testcar (DC28407T), which is one of just 1,440 pieces.

There was also a new delivery from AUTOart. There were two very colourful new 1:18 replicas on it; the 2007 Le Mans GT2 winning Porsche 911 GT3 RSR (AA80771), and a menacing car from the Japanese GT Championship, the 2004 Raybrig Honda NSX (AA80497).

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  1. 1 On June 17th, 2008, Markus said:

    HI guys, just to let you know, the Raybrog NSX link brings you to the Porsche page again

  2. 2 On June 17th, 2008, Leigh 'Diecast' Hobden said:

    Whoops! Thanks Markus, it should go to the right model now!

  3. 3 On June 18th, 2008, James said:

    Hi Leigh. Talking of Senna cars, have you any news on when Minichamps will be making re-stocks of the 1991 McLaren in 1:18 scale?

    Oh and great blog by the way!

    Regards, James.

  4. 4 On June 19th, 2008, Leigh 'Diecast' Hobden said:

    Still no news - it can take Minichamps up to a couple of years to ‘make’ new batches of restocks as they’re effectively making a new model again - to be honest I wouldn’t be entirely surprised if we don’t see any of the Senna re-releases before Christmas.

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