
McLaren 12C GT3 #11 Art Grand Prix C. Leclerc / N. Parisy / A. Soucek Spa 24 Hours 2013 Minichamps 1:18

Specifications
- Brand
- McLaren
- Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:18
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- 151131311
- 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
- 4012138124288
About the McLaren 12C GT3 #11 Art Grand Prix C. Leclerc / N. Parisy / A. Soucek Spa 24 Hours 2013 Minichamps 1:18
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast McLaren 12C GT3 reproduces the #11 Art Grand Prix entry from the Spa 24 Hours 2013. Diecast construction captures the mid-engine GT3's flared arches and endurance-race livery, marking an early season in McLaren's return to sports-car competition.
Spa 24 Hours grids in this era carried a wide manufacturer field, and Art Grand Prix's McLaren entry added variety to a class more often dominated by German and British GT3 machinery.
Diecast Reproduction of an Art Grand Prix Livery
The 12C's mid-engine proportions, shorter nose and cab-forward stance compared to front-engine GT3 rivals, come through clearly in Minichamps' diecast tooling, and the Art Grand Prix graphics package is applied with clean registration across the doors and rear haunches. Opening doors reveal the stripped competition cabin, roll cage and racing seat visible through the glazing, standard for diecast at this price level, while the widened GT3 arches and rear wing hold their aggressive shape without softened edges. At roughly 22cm, the 12C's compact, mid-engine stance remains one of the more visually distinctive shapes among GT3 subjects, easily distinguished from longer-nosed front-engine competitors.
A 2013 Grid Entry Worth Preserving
Endurance grids like Spa's routinely field dozens of cars across multiple classes, and most of that grid never gets the diecast attention reserved for outright winners. A model like this Art Grand Prix McLaren preserves a specific competitive entry from a deep and genuinely competitive field, valuable to collectors who want to represent the full breadth of a race weekend rather than just the podium. Set alongside the Von Ryan Racing 12C GT3 from the same event, it lets a McLaren-focused collector show two distinct team liveries competing in the very same 2013 Spa 24 Hours.















