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Hyundai i20 N Rally1 #1 T. Neuville / M. Wydaeghe Safari Rally Kenya 2025 IXO 1:18

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Hyundai i20 N Rally1 #1 T. Neuville / M. Wydaeghe Safari Rally Kenya 2025 IXO 1:18 18RMC247B Diecast
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IXO's 1:18 diecast Hyundai i20 N Rally1 reproduces car #1, the number reserved for reigning champion Thierry Neuville and co-driver Martijn Wydaeghe at Safari Rally Kenya 2025. The sealed one-piece body carries continuous sponsor tampo graphics, and its raised, reinforced stance reflects genuine gravel-rally hardware.
Hyundai i20 N Rally1 #1 T. Neuville / M. Wydaeghe Safari Rally Kenya 2025 IXO 1:18
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Brand
Hyundai
Manufacturer
IXO
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
18RMC247B
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About the Hyundai i20 N Rally1 #1 T. Neuville / M. Wydaeghe Safari Rally Kenya 2025 IXO 1:18

TL;DR: IXO's 1:18 diecast Hyundai i20 N Rally1 reproduces car #1, driven by 2024 world champion Thierry Neuville and Martijn Wydaeghe at Safari Rally Kenya 2025. The sealed one-piece body carries tampo-printed sponsor graphics built for gravel-stage punishment rather than opening panels, at a mid-tier diecast price point.

Car number one in the World Rally Championship goes to the reigning champion the following season, a tradition that turns a simple numeral into a marker of a title finally won. Thierry Neuville carried that number into Safari Rally Kenya 2025 after years of near misses, and IXO's i20 N Rally1 reproduces the hybrid-era hardware behind that achievement in sealed diecast form.

Car Number One and a Champion's Long-Awaited Season

A Tradition Tied to the Previous Year's Title

WRC rules reserve car number one for the defending drivers' champion, a convention shared with several other motorsport series and one that turns a single digit into shorthand for a season's outcome. Neuville's arrival at Safari Rally Kenya wearing that number followed a 2024 title that came after roughly a decade of championship runner-up finishes with Hyundai, a wait that made the achievement land differently than a first-time contender's breakthrough would have. Wearing the number is also a target on a driver's back, since every rival crew treats beating the reigning champion as a season-long goal in itself.

Martijn Wydaeghe in the Right-Hand Seat

Wydaeghe took over as Neuville's co-driver in 2023, stepping into a partnership that would go on to deliver the championship the following year. A new co-driver pairing takes time to build the trust that pace-note delivery demands at speed, and Safari Rally Kenya's rough, fast gravel stages are an unforgiving place to test that trust, since a mistimed call carries real consequences on terrain this punishing.

Safari Kenya's Suspension-Breaking Gravel

Terrain That Tests Hardware, Not Just Drivers

Safari's stages run long and fast over surfaces that shift from hard-packed gravel to sudden ruts and washouts without warning, a combination that has broken suspension components and underbodies on cars built for less punishing rounds. Rally1 machinery runs reinforced skid protection and taller ground clearance specifically because of rounds like this one, hardware that a tarmac-focused chassis setup would never need.

Heat, Dust, and a Full-Distance Finish

High ambient temperatures push cooling systems and tires to their limits across a full Safari itinerary, and dust thick enough to obscure a following car's view is a constant hazard on the open sections. Finishing the rally at all, let alone contesting the podium, is treated within the service park as an achievement distinct from a result on a gentler round, and that context sits behind every livery IXO reproduces from this event.

IXO's Sealed-Body Diecast for the #1 i20 N

This casting is a one-piece diecast shell with no opening door, hood, or hatch, a construction choice that keeps car #1's livery running unbroken across the roof, doors, and rear bodywork. Sponsor graphics wrap the shape in a single continuous pass, and without a hinge line to interrupt the pattern, the tampo printing reads as one cohesive design rather than a series of separately decorated panels. The zinc alloy body carries genuine density in the hand, heavier than a resin or promotional plastic piece of the same footprint, and that weight helps the model sit solidly on a display stand rather than shifting when a shelf is dusted or rearranged. Underneath, a molded skid plate and mud flaps pick up the raised, reinforced look the real Rally1 car wears for Safari's rough sections, giving the underside real detail rather than a flat, undetailed floor pan. For a champion's car, that attention matters, since a number one livery invites closer inspection than a mid-pack entry might, and this casting holds up to it.

Pairing Teammates From the Same Rally

Hyundai typically fields more than one i20 N Rally1 at a round like Safari Kenya, and a Neuville and Wydaeghe #1 car displayed alongside a teammate's livery from the same weekend turns two separate diecast purchases into a single snapshot of the team's rally. At roughly 22 centimeters in 1:18, the two liveries sit comfortably side by side without one overwhelming the other, since Rally1 proportions stay consistent across manufacturer entries. The sealed body on both cars means neither needs special handling beyond what any diecast piece requires, keeping a growing WRC collection simple to maintain. For a collector building out a 2025 season or a Hyundai works chronology, the champion's number one car is a natural anchor piece to shop for first.

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