
Audi R8 LMS Ultra #100 MS Racing Patel / Dobitsch ADAC GT Masters 2013 Minichamps 1:43

Specifications
- Brand
- Audi
- Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:43
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- New Model
- SKU
- 437130100
- Year
- 2013
- Era
- 2010s
- Body Type
- GT Models
- Vehicle Class
- GT3 & GT4 Race
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- New
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 4012138121683
About the Audi R8 LMS Ultra #100 MS Racing Patel / Dobitsch ADAC GT Masters 2013 Minichamps 1:43
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 diecast Audi R8 LMS Ultra reproduces car #100, MS Racing's entry for Patel and Dobitsch in the 2013 ADAC GT Masters season. The sealed metal body carries the GT3 aero package and sponsor livery in tampo print, with wide arches and a fixed rear wing cast directly into the shell.
ADAC GT Masters built its reputation on close, professionally run GT3 racing inside Germany, and the R8 LMS Ultra was one of the class's defining cars through the early 2010s. MS Racing's #100 entry for Patel and Dobitsch is one small piece of that grid, and Minichamps reproduces its livery with the same attention given to the series' front-running factory teams.
Minichamps' 1:43 Audi R8 LMS Ultra Casting
This Audi is cast as a single sealed shell, the construction Minichamps uses across nearly its entire GT3 range at 1:43, and for a livery car built around graphics rather than moving parts, that choice serves the model well. The R8 LMS Ultra's aggressive splitter, deep front canards, and boxy rear wing are all molded as part of the body, so the aerodynamic silhouette reads correctly from every angle instead of being interrupted by a hinge line the real race car never had at that point. Sponsor decals for #100 are tampo-printed directly onto the shell rather than applied as a separate film, which keeps the ink flat against the surface and free of the raised edge a lower-tier decal sheet leaves behind. Under a display light the base livery color holds a consistent, glossy depth, and the printed sponsor logos stay legible at this small scale without smearing into the panel lines around them. The wheels carry molded spoke detail typical of Audi's factory GT3 wheel design, sized to fill the arches correctly rather than sitting undersized the way a generic casting sometimes does. None of the body panels open, which at 1:43 is simply the standard for a race livery model: every bit of tooling effort goes into surface accuracy instead of a mechanism nobody would use to display a car this small.
MS Racing and the ADAC GT Masters Grid
The R8 LMS Ultra was Audi's evolution of its original R8 LMS customer racer, lightened and aerodynamically sharpened for GT3 competition after debuting around 2012. It gave independent teams a turn-key path into a class that, by the early 2010s, had become the dominant format for professional GT racing across Europe, letting privateers race genuinely competitive machinery. ADAC GT Masters ran that format inside Germany with a deep, closely matched field, and an Audi customer team like MS Racing fit squarely into the series' character: independently run, factory-supplied, and racing against similarly equipped Mercedes, Porsche, and BMW entries. Patel and Dobitsch shared driving duties on the #100 car through the 2013 season, a typical arrangement for the series' sprint and endurance formats. Audi's factory backing for its GT3 customer program meant teams like MS Racing had access to genuinely competitive equipment rather than a compromised version of the works car, which is part of why ADAC GT Masters produced such consistently close racing through this period, and Minichamps' willingness to cast a mid-grid livery keeps that depth visible on a shelf.
Building an Audi GT3 Lineup
An Audi R8 LMS Ultra from a mid-grid team like MS Racing is the kind of piece that makes a GT Masters shelf feel like a real season rather than a highlight reel, sitting alongside the more heavily reproduced factory entries rather than competing with them for attention. At 1:43 several liveries fit into the space one 1:18 model would occupy, which matters for a series with a field this large. It also pairs naturally with the era's Mercedes SLS, Porsche 911, and BMW M6 GT3 entries for anyone building the full ADAC GT Masters picture. This is an accessible way to fill out that grid honestly, one livery at a time.















