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Lotus 98T Renault #12 A. Senna Team Lotus 1986 Minichamps 1:18

Lotus 98T Renault #12 A. Senna Team Lotus 1986 Minichamps 1:18 540861812 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Lotus 98T reproduces Ayrton Senna's 1986 Team Lotus entry, running Renault turbo power under the Camel Filters livery that replaced Lotus's earlier JPS black and gold. His second season with the team, fought hard against Williams-Honda's superior pace.
Lotus 98T Renault #12 A. Senna Team Lotus 1986 Minichamps 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Lotus
Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
540861812
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About the Lotus 98T Renault #12 A. Senna Team Lotus 1986 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Lotus 98T reproduces Ayrton Senna's 1986 Team Lotus car, running Renault turbo power under the Camel Filters livery that replaced the team's earlier JPS black and gold scheme. It was Senna's second Lotus season, fought against a faster Williams-Honda across the year.

1986 marked a color change at Team Lotus as much as a competitive one. The black and gold JPS scheme gave way to Camel's yellow and blue, and Senna's Renault-powered 98T carried that new identity into a season it could not quite win outright.

Minichamps' Camel-Liveried Diecast of the 98T

Minichamps casts the 98T in diecast at 1:18, and the Camel Filters livery gives the model a completely different visual identity from the black-and-gold JPS cars that came before it and the cars that followed once Lotus changed sponsors again. The yellow, red, and blue color blocking runs across the sidepods and nose in sharp, clean lines, a scheme that photographs and displays distinctly from any other Lotus F1 diecast in a collection. Renault's turbo V6 badge appears where the sponsorship allows, a detail that matters to collectors tracking Lotus's engine-supplier history across the 1980s. The diecast build holds the narrow, low-nosed proportions typical of mid-1980s turbo-era F1 cars, a shape that changed rapidly year to year as teams chased aerodynamic gains, and the 98T's specific nose and sidepod contours mark it clearly as a 1986 car rather than any adjacent season.

Senna's Second Lotus Season Against Williams-Honda

Senna's second year at Lotus put him up against a Williams-Honda package that had simply more power and, for much of the season, a more reliable chassis, and the results reflected that gap even as Senna's own performances stood out individually. He took wins and consistently strong qualifying results, but the championship went elsewhere, a pattern that would repeat before Senna eventually left Lotus for a team that could match his ambition. The 98T represents Lotus at a competitive but not dominant point, still a constructor capable of victories, not yet the team it had been in its earlier eras of total dominance. For a collection tracing Senna's rise through the mid-1980s, this piece sits between his rain-soaked breakthrough win the year before and the technical experiments Lotus would attempt the year after. It remains a favorite among Camel-livery collectors for that reason alone.

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