
Red Bull Racing Honda RB16B #11 S. Perez Mexican GP 2021 Minichamps 1:18

Specifications
- Brand
- Red Bull Racing
- Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:18
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- 110211911
- Year
- 2021
- Era
- 2020s
- Body Type
- Formula Models
- Vehicle Class
- Formula 1 Models
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 4012138761612
About the Red Bull Racing Honda RB16B #11 S. Perez Mexican GP 2021 Minichamps 1:18
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Red Bull RB16B reproduces Sergio Perez's No. 11 car from the 2021 Mexican Grand Prix, his first home race after joining the team. The RB16B ran Honda power in its final full season before Red Bull took control of its own engine program.
A home Grand Prix means something different in Mexico City, where grandstands turn a shade of blue and orange for one driver alone. This RB16B captures Sergio Perez's first taste of that reception wearing Red Bull colors.
Sergio Perez's Home Grand Prix
Red Bull's Move for a Home-Grown Star
Red Bull signed Sergio Perez for the 2021 season after his breakout year at Racing Point, pairing him with Max Verstappen in a lineup built to challenge for the constructors' title. For Perez, a Mexico City native, joining a front-running team meant his home Grand Prix at the Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez suddenly carried championship stakes rather than midfield hopes. The circuit's stadium section, where the track cuts through a converted baseball stadium packed with fans in his honor, has long been one of Formula 1's most distinctive atmospheres, and 2021 marked the first time Perez experienced it from a car capable of fighting at the front.
Honda Power in Red Bull's Final Season With the Brand
The RB16B carried a Honda power unit, the last season of a partnership that had returned Red Bull to consistent race wins after years chasing Mercedes. Honda announced its planned withdrawal from Formula 1 before the season even began, prompting Red Bull to acquire the intellectual property and continue developing the engine under its own Red Bull Powertrains division from 2022 onward. That context makes the RB16B a transitional car in more ways than one: the last Honda-badged chassis before the brand's official F1 exit, and the car in which Perez earned his place at a team he would go on to serve for several seasons.
Minichamps' RB16B Casting in No. 11 Colors
Livery Precision on a Red Bull Racing Shell
Minichamps reproduces the RB16B's dark navy and red livery with clean separation between the Red Bull, Honda, and title-sponsor branding, all positioned exactly as they sat on the 2021 chassis. The number 11 is applied crisply on the nose and engine cover, and the sidepod intake shaping, one of the more distinctive aerodynamic signatures of the car's design, is molded with enough definition to read clearly under direct light rather than blurring into a single painted surface. Even the barge board winglets ahead of the rear tires, a detail easy to lose on a smaller-scale model, retain their individual segments here.
Diecast Weight and Wing Detail
The diecast build gives the model a reassuring heft compared with a resin piece of similar size, and the multi-element front wing holds its thin, layered profile without warping or softening at the edges, a common weak point on lower-tier F1 castings. At roughly 1:18 scale, the RB16B's proportions, low and wide with a pronounced rear diffuser, translate accurately, giving the model genuine presence next to other current-era Formula 1 replicas.
A Hometown Hero on the Shelf
This RB16B works well as a standalone piece for anyone drawn to Perez's story, but it earns extra weight as part of a broader Red Bull collection, sitting alongside Verstappen's title-winning cars from the same era. It marks a genuine turning point, the season Perez proved he belonged at a front-running team and did so in front of the crowd that mattered most to him personally. That narrative pull is part of why Perez liveries from his Red Bull years have become a popular entry point for newer Formula 1 collectors. Collectors building a themed shelf around home-race liveries will find few subjects with as strong a personal narrative as this one, and few atmospheres in Formula 1 as immediately recognizable as the Mexico City stadium section this car once thundered through.















