So I get to show off my twin McLaren F1-GTRs twice in three days! Both 1/43 scale from High Speed, these were the cars that got me into this hobby. I had bought a few other models casually while in the US, but did not do much with them after moving to India in 2009. Until I found both these cars listed for sale on AliExpress.
The first one I bought was this #53 car.
The #53 Franck Muller Watch car raced in the BPR Global GT Series in 1996, ultimately finishing 11th overall in the championship that year. At LeMans though, the car scored a DNF. At the end of the season, McLaren leased the car out to Mercedes-AMG where... well I will leave that story for another day because I have another special car that I need to post here to complete the story.
And You’ve already met the other F1 GTR from my stables. Today I found out that the #38 FINA livery was actually on 2 different McLaren chassis - 16R and 18R. 16R finished 11th at LeMans in 1996. 18R was a spare that was raced just twice (Nelson Piquet was one of the drivers) and was also the last short tail F1 GTR that McLaren ever built.
P.S: I know the lighting looks dull. This was on the roof of my apartment building on a muggy evening just as the sun was setting.