We are now accepting orders for the 2025 Le Mans Annual.
As usual, we plan to air freight copies from Europe in early December.
Reserve early to avoid disappointment.
2025 Le Mans Annual
Estate Collection: Le Mans Annual Books
An Estate Collection of 33 mostly out of print and Excellent Condition 24 Hours of Le Mans Annual Books has just been posted to the website. One of each available. Click HERE.
RAC ‘2025 Book of the Year’ Awards!
The Royal Automobile Club has awarded Karl Ludvigsen’s ‘Power Unleashed: Trailblazers who Energised Engines with Supercharging and Turbocharging‘ as the overall Motoring Book of the Year. for 2025.
In the Motorsport catagories, the winners were ‘My Travels On Racer Road: Can-Am and Formula 1 in their Golden Age‘ by Pete Lyons in the ‘no price limit’ class and Art Garner’s ‘A.J. Foyt – Vol. 1: Survivor, Champion, Legend‘ in the under £50 class.
All are available at The Motorsport Collector.
Congratulations to Karl, Pete and Art!
1/43 scale 2025 Formula 1 by Spark Model
Spark Model has just released a list of 12 Formula One cars from the 2025 season that they intend to produce in 1/43 scale. They include 5 Grand Prix winners (2 by Max and 1 each from Oscar, Lando and George) along with several other notable finishes by others. Seven of the 12 include Pit Boards.
Milestone victories include the 200th Grand Prix victory for McLaren by Lando Norris in Hungary and the 50th Grand Prix win for Oracle by Max Verstappen at Monza.
The cut-off date for guaranteed orders is Thursday, November 13.
You can check out the entire list HERE
Paul
New Spark Announcements
Two Announcements from Spark today:
Above – The 2025 F1 Construcors’ Champion Set, this year in both 1/43 and 1/64 scale. Click HERE for details.
Below – As they do periodically, Spark announced additional production of Le Mans winners in 1/43 scale. Seven examples from 2016 back to 1976 this time. Details HERE.
Reserve Now!
Classic F1 from Spark Model
The latest list of 1/43 scale Classic F1 offerings has just been posted to our New Model Announcements page.. Highlights include Mario Andretti’s Gold Leaf Team Lotus 48B from the 1968 US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen and Richie Ginther’s 1965 Mexican Grand Prix winning Honda RA272.
33 interesting blasts from the past can be reviewed HERE.
Advance Order Deadline is Tuesday, October 21.
Incoming BBR:
Inbound from Italy:
The BBR 1/18 scale #83 Ferrari 499P as raced in the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Limited Edition of 159. With Display Cover .
Click HERE for details.
Italian GP Ferrari from LookSmart
Right after our October 2 Email Update was sent, we received information that LookSmart would be modeling the 2025 Italian Grand Prix Niki Lauda Tribute Ferrari SF25s of Charles Leclerc and Lewis Hamilton in 1/18 and 1/43 scale. Details HERE.
October Incoming:
Some of the first 2025 IMSA releases from TopSpeed/TSM Model are expected to arrive in October, including the Pratt Miller Corvette Z06 GT3.R entries from the 24 Hours of Daytona in both 1/18 and 1/43 scale.
These models were announced at the height of the tariff panic this spring and were priced based upon a 145% ‘worse case’ scenario rate for Chinese imports. As a result, advance orders were much lower than usual across the board, which probably resulted in lower production numbers.
Now that we can confirm the tariff rate as 30%, we can reduce pricing back to the current reality ($217.00 for 1/18 and $105.00 for 1/43).
As a result, these could disappear quickly.
Check our Coming Soon section for details.
