AUSTRALIA : NUEVOS MODELOS DE BIANTE MODEL CARS - NOVIEMBRE 2018

November - Spark 1:18 & 1:43 Announcements

Pictured: 18S370 - 1:18 Brabham BT20 - Winner, 1967 Monaco GP - #9 Denny Hulme

This weekend we have a big variety of new models to announce from Spark and LookSmart. Spark 1:18 First up from comes the beautiful, open-wheeled Brabham BT20 (above) that New Zealand's Denny Hulme took to victory in the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix. This was very similar to the BT19 that took Jack Brabham to his third F1 World Championship in 1966. The 1981 World Championship-winning Brabham BT49C of Nelson Piquet also forms part of this announcement. It clinched the title at the 1981 Argentinian GP and is seen below. Pictured: 18S166- 1:18 Brabham BT49C - Winner, 1981 Argentinian GP - #5 Nelson Piquet 1981 Formula One World Champion Also coming in 1:18 are Jean-Pierre Jabouille's Renault RS01 from the 1978 US GP, where his 4th place marked the first ever Championship points for Renault and the first for a turbocharged car. There's also two winners from Macau; Hans-Joachim Stuck's BMW 320i Turbo from the 1980 Guia Race and Daniel Ticktum's Dallara F3 from the 2017 Grand Prix. For road car collectors there is Spark's first Aston Martin DB6 and the stunning Donkervoort D8 GTO-40, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the uncompromising Dutch sports cars with an ultralight 678 kg version that claims 0-200 km/h in 7.7 seconds... Pictured: 18S376 - 1:18 Donkervoort D8 GTO-40 & 18S313 - 1:18 Aston Martin DB6 Spark 1:43 Continuing with Le Mans, Spark have five new 1:43 racing cars including the winning Bentley Speed Six from 1930 (below). This win completed Bentley Motors' owner Woolf Barnato's hat-trick of victories at La Sarthe and the fourth consecutive win for the marque and fifth overall. Despite the marque's huge success, the Great Depression saw Bentley and Barnato (as guarantor) miss two mortgage payments leading the company into receivership and into the hands of rivals Rolls-Royce. Pictured: 43LM30 - 1:43 Bentley Speed Six - Winner, 1930 Le Mans 24 Hours - #4 W. Barnato / G. Kidston It wouldn't be Le Mans without Porsches though and there are also four of Stuttgart's finest announced today; a 911 RSR, a 914/6 and two 718 RSKs. There's also sixteen F1 cars from 1956 to 1989, featuring McLaren (3), March, Matra, Vanwall, Shadow (2), Ligier, Benetton, Cooper (2), Gordini and Lotus (2) along with great drivers like Trintignant, Stewart, Hulme, Revson, Ickx, Arnoux, Herbert and three from the tragically cut-short career of Elio de Angelis (below). Pictured: Three Elio de Angelis F1 cars in 1:43rd from Spark (L-R): Shadow DN9 (S7372/S7374 - 1979 Belgian & US GPs) and Lotus 91 (S5352 - Winner, 1982 Austrian GP) Lastly from Spark in 1:43 today are three Volkswagen Golf GTI touring cars, a racing Renault 8 Gordini, a Paris-Dakar Porsche 959 and the 1959 Monte Carlo Rally-winning Citroën ID19 (below).   Pictured: S5530 - 1:43 Citroën ID19 - Winner, 1959 Monte Carlo Rally - #176 Coltelloni / Alexandre