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Spark Model has announced additional production of the sold out Max Verstappen Red Bull RB16B in the commemorative 2021 Turkish GP livery.

A very short dealer deadline of November 9.

We’ll be ordering a few extra so get your name in quick if you missed them the first time!

The latest 1/43 offerings from Spark Model have been posted in the New Model Announcements section. Some great Le Mans, Targa Florio, other sports cars and F1 models on this list! Please reserve by Monday, November 21.

The latest historic Ferrari to be announced by Tecnomodel is the 195 S Touring Berlinetta from 1950. Five 1/18 scale versions have been announced, including the 1950 Mille Miglia winning #724 driven by Crosara / Marzotto seen above.

Also of note is the Briggs Cunningham #17 entry from the first ever race at Sebring later that year. The Luigi Chinetti / Alfredo Momo driven Ferrari 195 S finished 7th overall and first in the 3 litre class in the inaugural 6 Hours of Sebring on New Year’s Eve 1950.

Also from Tecnomodel, four versions of the Ferrari 312 B3-73 Grand Prix car from 1973 seen below.

Advance order deadline for both new Ferraris is Friday, November 18.

Max Verstappen, Winner Japanese GP 2022 

2022 Formula One Drivers’ Champion

Oracle Red Bull Racing RB18 #1 – Oracle Red Bull Racing 

1/18 scale Spark Model – With Acrylic Cover and Pit Board – Reserve HERE

1/43 scale – Spark Model – With Pit Board – Reserve HERE

Must reserve by Friday, November 4, 2022 to guarantee availability!

Due to illness. Covid finally got me. – Paul

Few remain. Order HERE.

Highlights from the latest 1/43 announcements from TSM Model include the #1 Paul Miller BMW M4 GT3 in their GTD class winning 2022 Long Beach livery and a rare diecast offering of the Bugatti Chiron Pur Sport in yellow.

Check out all 7 new items HERE and please reserve by Friday, October 21 to insure delivery.

Reserve your copy today!

by Pete Lyons & Jill Amadio

Raoul ‘Sonny’ Balcaen grew up in Los Angeles at a time when it became the epicentre of American motor racing, nurturing a vast talent pool of people whose influence has echoed through to today.

As a teenager, he successfully competed with his home-built Top Fuel dragster during the formative years of the sport. With Lance Reventlow, he worked on the famous Scarab sports cars and was standing in the dyno room when the team’s all-American Formula 1 engine was fired up for the first time. A period as Jim Hall’s crew chief and a close association with Carroll Shelby added to the know-how that guided him towards becoming a successful entrepreneur and led to all that followed.  

• Aged 17, Balcaen built his own Top Fuel drag racer, the ‘Bantamweight Bomb’, which he developed relentlessly and drove to many successes. 
• His role in the fabulous Scarab sports cars — the landmark all-American racers — and insights into life with their creator, the incomparable Lance Reventlow.
• Working as crew chief to the brilliant Jim Hall, preparing and running his Lotus Eleven and Lister-Chevrolet long before the famous Chaparrals emerged.
• A second spell with Scarab, this time with the Formula 1 project — the first American Grand Prix car — plus a special job for Reventlow converting a Scarab sports racer into a street car. 
• Onwards into setting up his own successful business, IECO (Induction Engineering Co), to create and sell high-grade performance and appearance accessories, with Chevrolets — especially Corvair and Vega — featuring strongly.
• His many-faceted dealings with Carroll Shelby, leading to consultancy and even assignments as occasional Shelby American company pilot.
• Along the way we meet many other big names of the era, including Chuck Daigh, Bruce Kessler, Warren Olson, Dick Troutman, Tom Barnes, Phil Remington, Ken Miles, Leo Goossen, Jim Travers, Frank Coon, Ed Donovan and Pete Brock. 

This engaging memoir is the very personal history of a momentous time and place in which we meet a who’s who of West Coast road-racing heroes.

Hardbound | 320 pages

$40.00 – Reserve HERE

Overnight, Tecnomodel announced a blizzard of 10 different 1/18 scale models, including a set of Jim Clark driven Lotus 30 variations – the 1964 Riverside #15 is shown above – along with no less than 6 different types of Ferrari F1 and Indy cars, a set of Lauda and Piquet Brabham Alfa Romeo BT48 and March 761 F1 cars and a lone set of DRM BMW M1 Turbo variations driven by Hans-Joachim Stuck.

On the 1/43 side, a set of Porsche 718 F2 cars from 1960, including the Rob Walker #7 driven by Stirling Moss at Aintree, seen above.

Dealer Deadline for everything is Friday, October 14.

Check everything out HERE.

Lots of new Announcements from Spark Model, LookSmart and Tecnomodel just posted, headlined by a set of Tecnomodel 1/18 Lotus 38s, which includes Jim Clark’s 1965 Indy Winner, Gurney’s Yamaha sponsored 1965 mount and the two STP cars of Clark and Al Unser from 1966. Tecnomodel will also do sets of Benetton B190 and March 731 GP cars. LookSmart is doing the 2022 Italian GP Ferraris in both 1/18 and 1/43. Spark announced two different Verstappen 2022 GP winners along with Hamilton and Russell Mercedes from the Belgian GP and half a dozen assorted race and road cars in 1/18 scale.

Dealer Deadline for everything is Thursday, October 11. Check everything out HERE.