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Audi R8 LMS Ultra #4 Phoenix Racing Ammermuller / H-J. Stuck 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2013 Minichamps 1:43

Audi R8 LMS Ultra #4 Phoenix Racing Ammermuller / H-J. Stuck 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2013 Minichamps 1:43
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Specifications
Brand
Audi
Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:43
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
437131304
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About the Audi R8 LMS Ultra #4 Phoenix Racing Ammermuller / H-J. Stuck 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2013 Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 diecast reproduces the #4 Audi R8 LMS Ultra that Phoenix Racing entered at the 2013 24 Hours of Nurburgring, driven by Christian Ammermuller and Hans-Joachim Stuck. Cast in the team's full livery over a sealed one-piece body, it anchors a GT3 endurance-racing shelf around a genuine competition entry.

The Nurburgring 24 Hours draws one of the largest and most varied GT3 fields anywhere in the world, and a Phoenix Racing entry running Stuck, a driver whose career already spanned Le Mans, F1, and decades of German touring cars, gave the #4 R8 LMS Ultra genuine pedigree even before the race itself started. Minichamps documents that specific car and crew in 1:43.

Audi R8 LMS Ultra at the Nurburgring 24 Hours

A Proven GT3 Platform in Its Ultra Form

The R8 LMS Ultra represented an evolution of Audi's GT3 racer, a lighter and further-refined version of the car that had already established the R8 as one of the class's benchmark platforms. Phoenix Racing, a team with deep experience running Audi machinery in endurance competition, fielded the #4 car at the Nurburgring 24 Hours in 2013, an event held on the demanding Nordschleife combined circuit where reliability matters as much as outright pace across twenty-four hours of racing. Getting a GT3 car through that race intact is its own achievement, independent of finishing position, given the circuit's length and the unpredictable weather the Eifel region regularly produces.

A Driver Pairing With Real History

Hans-Joachim Stuck brought decades of top-level experience to this entry, a career that included multiple Le Mans class victories, a Formula 1 stint, and a long association with both Audi and BMW in touring car competition. Pairing him with Christian Ammermuller gave the #4 car a blend of veteran race craft and contemporary GT3 pace, the kind of driver lineup that makes a specific race entry worth documenting on its own terms rather than as a generic GT3 subject.

Phoenix Racing Livery in 1:43 Diecast

Reproducing a Specific Race Livery

Minichamps casts this R8 LMS Ultra as a sealed one-piece body, standard practice for a GT3 racer at this scale, and applies Phoenix Racing's specific paint scheme and number 4 graphics rather than a generic Audi livery. Race-car decal work has to register sponsor logos and number placement accurately against a body covered in aerodynamic addenda, wings, splitters, and vents that a road-car casting never has to accommodate.

Aero Detail on a Sealed Racing Body

The wide arches, roof-mounted air intake, and rear wing that distinguish a GT3 racer from its road-going R8 counterpart are all captured in the tooling, giving this casting a visibly different silhouette from any street R8 Minichamps might also produce. That aerodynamic detail is what a GT3 collector inspects first, since it is what actually separates a race car from a repainted road car in miniature.

Stuck's Name and a GT3 Collection's Anchor Point

For a collector building a GT3 endurance-racing shelf, a documented entry with a driver of Stuck's stature gives the piece weight beyond its livery alone. This model works equally well anchoring an Audi-specific motorsport collection or a broader Nurburgring 24 Hours theme spanning multiple manufacturers and teams. The specificity of the livery, tied to one race, one team, and one driver pairing, is what separates a genuine competition-history piece from a generic GT3 casting wearing an arbitrary number.

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