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Amalgam New McLaren MP4-4 / Ferrari SF71-H

** UPDATE ** We added photos of the new Ferrari SF71-H in 1:8 and 1:18 scale.  Pricing starts at $595US for 1:18 and $5852US for the 1:8.  Arrival date July/August 2018.  Yum!

Sticking with the race theme, the team at Amalgam is unveiling their version of the 1:18 McLaren MP4-4.  We must say this was an awesome era for F1, balls to the wall racing with smells and sounds that can’t be matched today.  Amalgam does a terrific job in bringing forward the dominate of the MP4-4.  The only negative is the sealed construction.  If interested, set $595US aside to get one!

About the McLaren MP4-4…  “The MP4-4 goes down in the annals of Formula One history as one of the most successful Formula One car designs of all time. Although it competed in the 1988 FIA Formula One World Championship it still to this day holds the record as the most dominant single-season car to complete in Formula One, winning all but one race and taking all but one pole position with its drivers Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost.

The MP4-4 was the first McLaren to benefit from Honda power. The 1987 season, by comparison, was a poor year for the British squad, using the by this time unreliable Porsche-built TAG V6 unit. Since the 1985 championship, Honda had demonstrated that it had the best engine and, with 1988 being the last year of the turbo engines prior to new rules being introduced, McLaren went all out to benefit from its new engine partnership. This strategy was in stark contrast to that of the majority of other teams such as Ferrari and Tyrrell, who based their cars on updated versions of previous seasons’ cars in order to focus their efforts on all-new 1989 contenders.”

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