
Porsche 935 Martini Racing #1 R. Stommelen / M. Schurti Winner Dijon 6 Hours 1976 Minichamps 1:43

Specifications
- Brand
- Porsche
- Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:43
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- New Model
- SKU
- 400766311
- Year
- 1976
- Era
- 1970s
- Body Type
- GT Models
- Vehicle Class
- Group 5 & Silhouette Racing
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- New
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 4012138101715
About the Porsche 935 Martini Racing #1 R. Stommelen / M. Schurti Winner Dijon 6 Hours 1976 Minichamps 1:43
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 diecast Porsche 935 reproduces Martini Racing's #1 car, driven to victory by Rolf Stommelen and Manfred Schürti at the 1976 Dijon 6 Hours. The sealed body carries the Martini stripe livery on Porsche's turbocharged Group 5 racer, a factory-backed centerpiece for an endurance racing display.
By 1976, Porsche's competition department had turned the 911 into something almost unrecognizable: a wide-bodied, turbocharged silhouette racer built to dominate Group 5. Martini Racing's factory-backed program carried that ambition onto circuits across Europe, and the #1 car's win at Dijon showed exactly how far the 935 had already outpaced its rivals.
Stommelen, Schürti, and Martini Racing's Dijon Win
The 935 in Group 5 Silhouette Racing
Group 5 regulations of the mid-1970s allowed manufacturers enormous freedom over bodywork as long as the underlying production silhouette remained recognizable, and Porsche exploited that freedom more aggressively than almost anyone else. The 935 kept the 911's basic greenhouse while wearing flared fenders, a lowered nose, and a rear wing that had almost nothing in common with any road car Porsche actually sold. Underneath, a turbocharged flat-six pushed power well beyond what the 911 platform had ever needed to handle on the street. That combination of extreme bodywork and serious turbocharged power made the 935 close to unbeatable in period competition once Porsche's engineers finished developing it.
Martini's Factory-Backed Porsche Program
Martini Racing's involvement with Porsche in this era went well beyond simple sponsorship, functioning as the factory's competition arm for its endurance racing program across multiple seasons. The white body with red and blue stripes became one of motorsport's most recognizable liveries, carried across Porsche's prototype and GT efforts alike through the mid-to-late 1970s. Rolf Stommelen and Manfred Schürti were established factory drivers by 1976, experienced hands trusted with a car that demanded both raw speed and the discipline to manage a turbocharged engine's power delivery across a six-hour race. Their win at Dijon reinforced the 935's dominance during a season in which Porsche rarely lost when the car finished.
Minichamps' 1:43 Rendering of the Turbocharged 935
Wide-Body Panel Lines and Livery Registration
The 935's flared fenders and lowered nose give this model a far more aggressive shape than a standard 911 casting, and Minichamps captures those wide-body panel lines with clean, consistent gaps around the arches. The Martini stripe livery runs continuously from the nose across the roof to the rear wing, and keeping that registration accurate matters enormously on a design built around long, uninterrupted lines rather than isolated logos. Tampo printing lays the red and blue stripes flat against the white base coat, avoiding the slight ridge a waterslide decal would leave where the stripe crosses a body seam. The #1 roundel and sponsor markings hold sharp edges under close inspection.
Fixed-Body Casting and Paint Depth on Martini Stripes
Minichamps casts this 935 as a sealed one-piece shell, the standard approach at 1:43 that keeps the wide-body panels as one continuous surface rather than adding the bulk a working door or engine cover would introduce. Zinc alloy diecast gives the model real weight for its size, noticeably denser in the hand than a resin casting of comparable dimensions. Paint sits on that hard metal base with consistent gloss, so the white body color and Martini stripes hold their finish evenly under a shelf light rather than looking uneven across the car's larger flat surfaces. At roughly eleven centimeters long, the model carries genuine shelf presence for a 1:43 piece.
A Cornerstone Piece for Group 5 Collections
A Martini-liveried 935 anchors almost any Porsche endurance racing display, given the livery's recognition and the car's dominant record through the second half of the 1970s. This particular Dijon-winning example works well alongside other Group 5 silhouette racers from rival manufacturers, showing just how far factory-backed competition departments pushed bodywork and power in that era. At 1:43, a 935 pairs naturally with earlier 906 and 908 prototypes to trace Porsche's competition evolution across a full decade. This is a strong choice for a collector who wants one clearly recognizable centerpiece rather than a shelf of interchangeable liveries.















