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Mercedes CLK LM GT1 #1 AMG Mercedes K. Ludwig / R. Zonta FIA GT Championship 1998 Maisto 1:18

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Mercedes CLK LM GT1 #1 AMG Mercedes K. Ludwig / R. Zonta FIA GT Championship 1998 Maisto 1:18 56053 Diecast
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Maisto's 1:18 diecast reproduces the #1 AMG-Mercedes CLK-LM driven by Klaus Ludwig and Ricardo Zonta during Mercedes' dominant 1998 FIA GT Championship season. Entry-tier diecast construction makes this purpose-built GT1 racer accessible without premium pricing.
Mercedes CLK LM GT1 #1 AMG Mercedes K. Ludwig / R. Zonta FIA GT Championship 1998 Maisto 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Mercedes
Manufacturer
Maisto
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
56053
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About the Mercedes CLK LM GT1 #1 AMG Mercedes K. Ludwig / R. Zonta FIA GT Championship 1998 Maisto 1:18

TL;DR: Maisto's 1:18 diecast reproduces the #1 AMG-Mercedes CLK-LM driven by Klaus Ludwig and Ricardo Zonta during Mercedes' dominant 1998 FIA GT Championship season. Entry-tier diecast construction makes this GT1-era racing subject accessible, and the CLK-LM's purpose-built homologation made it one of the era's most formidable racers.

GT1-class racing in the late 1990s produced some of the most extreme purpose-built machines ever to carry a manufacturer's road-car badge, and the CLK-LM sat right at that extreme.

Mercedes' Dominant 1998 GT1 Campaign

The CLK-LM shared little beyond its name and badge with any actual CLK road car, built instead as a purpose-designed GT1 homologation special with a carbon structure and race-tuned aerodynamics far beyond what GT1 rules originally intended for production-based racers. Klaus Ludwig and Ricardo Zonta's #1 entry was part of a Mercedes effort that dominated the 1998 FIA GT Championship, a season widely remembered as one of the more one-sided manufacturer campaigns in GT racing history. That total dominance is exactly why the CLK-LM still draws attention from collectors decades later: it represents a moment when GT racing pushed right up against prototype-level engineering under a road-car silhouette.

Maisto's Entry-Tier Rendering of a GT1 Racer

The CLK-LM's wide, low racing body with its deep front splitter and towering rear wing gives Maisto's tooling real shapes to capture, and the model's proportions read convincingly aggressive even at entry-tier pricing. The livery's red-and-silver AMG-Mercedes scheme applies cleanly across the car's flat panels, and opening doors reveal a simplified cockpit rather than a fully mapped racing interior. Panel gaps run wider than a specialist resin builder would allow, an honest limitation at this price point. For collectors drawn to GT1's short but spectacular era, this CLK-LM offers a genuinely dominant championship car without the cost a rarer resin edition of the same subject would command.

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