
McLaren MP4-12C GT3 #5 Boutsen Racing Guilvert / Dermont 24 Hours of Spa 2013 Minichamps 1:43

Specifications
- Brand
- McLaren
- Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:43
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- 437131305
- Year
- 2013
- Era
- 2010s
- Body Type
- GT Models
- Vehicle Class
- GT3 & GT4 Race
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 4012138122567
About the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 #5 Boutsen Racing Guilvert / Dermont 24 Hours of Spa 2013 Minichamps 1:43
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 diecast McLaren MP4-12C GT3 reproduces car #5, run by Boutsen Racing at the 2013 24 Hours of Spa with Guilvert and Dermont sharing the cockpit. The sealed body carries printed team livery and GT3 aero at compact scale.
Thierry Boutsen swapped a Formula 1 cockpit for a team owner's clipboard, and by 2013 his GT3 squad was running McLaren's MP4-12C at one of endurance racing's toughest events. This is that entry, car #5, in 1:43.
Boutsen Racing's #5 at the 24 Hours of Spa
From F1 Cockpit to GT3 Team Owner
Thierry Boutsen won three grand prix during his Formula 1 career in the late 1980s and early 1990s, driving for Arrows, Benetton, Williams, and Ligier before stepping away from single-seater racing. He later built Boutsen Racing into a fixture of European GT competition, fielding customer cars for teams and drivers rather than driving himself. By 2013 the squad had adopted the McLaren MP4-12C GT3 as its weapon of choice, entering car #5 at Spa with Guilvert and Dermont sharing driving duties across the round-the-clock event.
Spa-Francorchamps' Demands on GT3 Machinery
The 24 Hours of Spa is run on a circuit famous for the Eau Rouge and Raidillon complex and for weather that shifts without warning across the Ardennes forest. A GT3 car has to survive both the physical demands of the layout and the tactical chaos that sudden rain brings to a full-length endurance field. Fielding a relatively new platform like the MP4-12C GT3 at an event this unforgiving was as much a test of the car as of the team running it.
Minichamps' Sealed-Body MP4-12C Casting
Livery Print on a One-Piece Shell
This casting is a fixed, one-piece diecast body with no opening doors or hatches, letting Minichamps hold tight, even panel lines around the car's flanks. Boutsen Racing's livery and the #5 door numbers are tampo-printed directly onto the shell rather than applied as decals, keeping the graphics flat against the paint rather than risking lifted edges over years of display. Sponsor branding stays crisp even at this size, with color separation along the doors and roofline holding cleanly.
MP4-12C GT3 Proportions Carried to 1:43
McLaren developed the MP4-12C GT3 from its road-going twin-turbo coupe, widening the body and adding the front splitter, canards, and rear wing GT3 competition demands. Minichamps holds those proportions accurately at 1:43, with the wing angle, ride height, and arch flare reading as a genuine GT3 racer rather than a generic silhouette. Zinc alloy construction gives the piece real weight for its size, evident the moment it leaves its packaging.
A Spa 24 Hours Piece for a McLaren GT Shelf
At 1:43, this MP4-12C GT3 takes minimal shelf space, making it easy to build a run of Spa 24 Hours entries or a full McLaren GT3 customer-racing lineup. Paired with Art Grand Prix's #11 from the same race, the two document how differently two teams dressed the identical GT3 platform for one event, a natural pairing for anyone building a Spa-themed display.















