
Porsche 911 GT1 #25 B. Wollek / T. Boutsen / H-J. Stuck 24 Hours of Le Mans 1996 Minichamps 1:43

Specifications
- Brand
- Porsche
- Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:43
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- New Model
- SKU
- 403966625
- Year
- 1996
- Era
- 1990s
- Body Type
- GT Models
- Vehicle Class
- Historic GT & GTE
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- New
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- —
About the Porsche 911 GT1 #25 B. Wollek / T. Boutsen / H-J. Stuck 24 Hours of Le Mans 1996 Minichamps 1:43
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 Porsche 911 GT1 reproduces the #25 Bob Wollek, Thierry Boutsen, and Hans-Joachim Stuck entry from the 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans in sealed-body zinc alloy diecast, the GT1's debut season, when the road-homologated racer finished on the podium behind Porsche's own factory prototype.
Porsche built the GT1 to exploit a homologation loophole, a race car dressed as a road car just enough to satisfy GT-class rules, and 1996 was the year that gamble first paid off at Le Mans. This #25 entry, driven by three genuine Porsche veterans, was part of the result that proved the concept worked.
Minichamps' 1:43 Porsche 911 GT1 in Le Mans Livery
A Sealed Body for a Genuinely Radical Silhouette
The GT1's bodywork shared almost nothing with a standard 911 beyond a nominal silhouette, a mid-engine layout hidden under 911-style front styling, wide flared arches, and a full racing aero package including a raised rear wing. Minichamps casts that shape as a single sealed shell, appropriate for a car whose entire bodywork was a purpose-built racing structure rather than a modified street shell with opening panels. The stance holds correct proportions with the low nose and wide rear haunches that made the GT1 look nothing like the road car whose name it borrowed.
Livery Print Detail on the #25 Entry
The #25 car's factory livery and number graphics go on through tampo printing, sitting flat against the shell rather than lifting at the edges over time. Panel separation between the nose, doors, and rear deck reads as consistent grooves, and the wheels carry the correct racing offset for the flared arches. The factory colors hold their saturation convincingly under direct display lighting.
The GT1's 1996 Le Mans Debut
A Homologation Special Built to Bend the Rules
Porsche built the 911 GT1 specifically to exploit GT1-class homologation rules, constructing a mid-engine racing chassis and then building the minimum number of road-going versions the regulations required to call it production-derived. It was, by any honest description, a prototype race car wearing a legal disguise, and 1996 marked its first appearance at Le Mans.
Wollek, Boutsen, and Stuck, and a Result That Justified the Program
Bob Wollek, Thierry Boutsen, and Hans-Joachim Stuck, three drivers with decades of combined sports car and Formula 1 experience between them, shared this #25 entry in the GT1's debut Le Mans outing. The GT1 program finished on the overall podium that year, behind Porsche's own factory prototype entry, a result that validated the homologation gamble almost immediately and set up the GT1's continued development in the seasons that followed.
A Cornerstone Piece for a Le Mans Shelf
At roughly 10cm in 1:43, this GT1 sits easily alongside other Le Mans-era Porsche prototypes and GT cars, and its debut-season status makes it a natural cornerstone for anyone building a GT1 program lineup year by year. The driver trio's combined pedigree adds weight beyond the chassis itself, the kind of detail that turns a single model into the anchor for a broader 1990s Le Mans GT collection. Few subjects in this range carry as strong a case for being the first piece a collector adds.















