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McLaren F1 GTR Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing #53 O. Giroix / J. Sala / P. Deletraz 24 Hours of Le Mans 1996 Minichamps 1:18

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McLaren F1 GTR Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing #53 O. Giroix / J. Sala / P. Deletraz 24 Hours of Le Mans 1996 Minichamps 1:18 5301336
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Minichamps' 1:18 diecast McLaren F1 GTR reproduces Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing's #53 entry at the 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans, driven by O. Giroix, J. Sala, and P. Deletraz. A specific-race livery from the F1 GTR's celebrated Le Mans era.
McLaren F1 GTR Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing #53 O. Giroix / J. Sala / P. Deletraz 24 Hours of Le Mans 1996 Minichamps 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
McLaren
Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
530133653
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About the McLaren F1 GTR Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing #53 O. Giroix / J. Sala / P. Deletraz 24 Hours of Le Mans 1996 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast McLaren F1 GTR reproduces Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing's #53 car from the 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans, driven by Olivier Giroix, Jean-Denis Deletraz's Deletraz name partner P. Deletraz, and J. Sala. This diecast honors the F1 GTR's short but legendary Le Mans campaign, one year after the road-derived racer won outright.

The McLaren F1 GTR remains one of motorsport's great crossover stories, a road car's racing derivative that won Le Mans outright in 1995, and this 1996 entry captures the following year's continued privateer effort.

Recreating a Privateer GTR Racing Livery

The F1 GTR's dramatic wide-body kit, deep front splitter, and towering rear wing give Minichamps a genuinely distinctive shape to render, and the tooling captures the car's low, purposeful stance without softening its aggressive aerodynamic surfaces. Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing's livery carries bold Japanese sponsor graphics across the doors and rear deck, and the tampo printing keeps that text sharp and correctly placed rather than blurring at the panel edges. The zinc alloy body gives the model genuine weight, reinforcing the sense of a genuinely serious GT racer rather than a toy. At roughly 24cm in 1:18, the F1 GTR's wide, low silhouette dominates shelf space among road-going supercars.

Why This F1 GTR Entry Matters

The F1 GTR's road-car origins make it unique among Le Mans winners, since it began life as Gordon Murray's uncompromising three-seat supercar before BMW Motorsport built the racing GTR variant around it. A 1996 entry represents the car's second Le Mans campaign, run by privateer teams after the works effort wound down, and documenting a specific car number and driver trio gives this piece genuine historical grounding rather than a generic GT-era livery guess. For collectors following either McLaren's road-car history or 1990s Le Mans GT racing, this is a significant, verifiable addition.

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