10% discount on your first order — create a free account

Create Account
✓ 14-day returns ✓ Hand-checked before shipping ✓ Secure checkout
Account

Williams FW44 Mercedes #23 A. Albon Bahrain GP 2022 Minichamps 1:18

Sold out
Williams FW44 Mercedes #23 A. Albon Bahrain GP 2022 Minichamps 1:18 117220123 Resin
1 / 7
Minichamps' 1:18 resin replica reproduces Alexander Albon's #23 Williams FW44 from the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix, his return to Formula 1 after a year away and the sport's first race under new ground-effect regulations. Sealed resin construction captures the FW44's revised bodywork.
Williams FW44 Mercedes #23 A. Albon Bahrain GP 2022 Minichamps 1:18
Current price: 189.00 €
Sold out

This model is currently sold out. Enter your email and we'll let you know when it's back in stock.

Browse Williams models
Pay securely with
Shipping to United States (US) Worldwide delivery
Prices exclude VAT No hidden costs
Shipping from 18.00 € Tracked & insured
Pay in EUR € Local currency
Specifications
Brand
Williams
Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Resin
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
117220123
100% authentic Direct from manufacturers
5-layer carton Foam-filled interior
Easy returns 14 days, no questions asked
Secure payment 256-bit SSL encryption

About the Williams FW44 Mercedes #23 A. Albon Bahrain GP 2022 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 resin model reproduces Alexander Albon's #23 Williams FW44 from the 2022 Bahrain Grand Prix, the opening round of Formula 1's new ground-effect era and Albon's first race back after a year away from the grid. Sealed resin holds the FW44's revised bodywork lines tight for a modern-era display.

Formula 1 tore up its aerodynamic rulebook for 2022, and Albon arrived at Williams that same year having spent the previous season on the sidelines, making this Bahrain opener a fresh start on two fronts at once.

Capturing the FW44's Ground-Effect Bodywork in Resin

The 2022 regulations pushed Formula 1 cars toward simplified bargeboards, wider floors, and bathtub-shaped sidepods designed to generate downforce through underfloor airflow rather than surface-mounted winglets, a genuine shift in how these cars are shaped. Minichamps casts the FW44 in sealed resin, and that construction favors this new bodywork style: the smooth, sculpted sidepod tunnels and simplified front wing elements benefit from resin's ability to hold crisp edges on curved surfaces without the seam lines diecast tooling can leave on complex shapes. Williams ran a modest livery that year, mostly blue with limited sponsor graphics, and the cleaner surfaces make the FW44 an easier subject to render accurately than a car carrying heavier sponsorship.

Albon's Return and Formula 1's Regulation Reset

Alex Albon spent 2021 out of Formula 1 entirely after losing his Red Bull seat at the end of 2020, racing in DTM instead while waiting for another chance. Williams gave him that chance for 2022, the same year the sport reset its technical rules from the ground up, so Albon's comeback and the FW44's clean-sheet design arrived together. The Bahrain Grand Prix, run at Sakhir as the traditional season opener, gave the field its first real look at how the new regulations had shuffled the competitive order, with several teams surprised by where they landed. For Albon personally, simply being back on the grid mattered as much as the result that weekend.

A Season-Opener Entry for a Modern F1 Shelf

This FW44 works well as a starting marker for a post-2022 regulation-era collection, and it doubles as the opening chapter of Albon's second act in the sport, two threads a single model can carry at once.

From the same collection

Collectors also bought

Browse all 1:18

10% off your first order

Create a free account and claim 10% off your first order — from hundreds of collectible 1:18, 1:43 and 1:12 models by Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and more.

Create free account Browse the collection
Collectible 1:18 model cars by Porsche, Mercedes-Benz and BMW — Models118 first-order offer
0