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McLaren Honda MP4/4 Marlboro #12 A. Senna F1 World Champion 1988 Minichamps 1:12

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McLaren Honda MP4/4 Marlboro #12 A. Senna F1 World Champion 1988 Minichamps 1:12 540881212 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:12 diecast McLaren Honda MP4/4 reproduces Ayrton Senna's Marlboro-liveried car from 1988, his first world championship season and one of the most dominant campaigns in Formula 1 history. The larger 1:12 scale gives this diecast genuine shelf presence and opening features throughout.
McLaren Honda MP4/4 Marlboro #12 A. Senna F1 World Champion 1988 Minichamps 1:12
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Specifications
Brand
McLaren
Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:12
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
540881212
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About the McLaren Honda MP4/4 Marlboro #12 A. Senna F1 World Champion 1988 Minichamps 1:12

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:12 diecast McLaren Honda MP4/4 reproduces Ayrton Senna's Marlboro-liveried #12 car from 1988, the season McLaren won 15 of 16 races and Senna claimed his first Formula 1 world championship. The larger 1:12 scale gives this diecast real shelf presence and detailed opening features.

McLaren's MP4/4 won fifteen of the sixteen races run in 1988, a record of dominance that still stands out even by Formula 1's most one-sided seasons, and Ayrton Senna took his first world championship in this very car, driving alongside a teammate, Alain Prost, whose rivalry with him would shape the sport for years afterward.

1:12 Scale Diecast Presence for a Dominant Championship Car

Minichamps builds this MP4/4 at 1:12, a scale roughly half again as large as the more common 1:18 format, and the extra size gives the model genuine shelf presence alongside real weight in hand from its zinc alloy construction. The cockpit surround and engine cover open to expose Honda's turbocharged V6 layout, mechanical detail that rewards the larger scale's room for finer tooling work. Marlboro's red-and-white livery, one of the most photographed schemes in the sport's history, is applied through sharp tampo printing that holds its crispness across a body large enough to show every sponsor decal clearly.

The Senna-Prost Season That Won Almost Everything

Honda's turbocharged engine gave McLaren a decisive power advantage in 1988, the final season before turbos were banned from the sport, and the team's near-total sweep of the calendar left rival constructors with almost nothing to fight for. Senna's title that year was his first of three, and the season also marked the start of a teammate rivalry with Prost that would turn increasingly tense over the following two seasons at McLaren.

At 1:12, this MP4/4 works as a genuine anchor piece rather than a supporting model, commanding attention on a shelf the way the real car commanded that entire season.

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