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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
Class of ’99: Triumph and Tragedy in the 1999 CART Indy Car Series
by John Oreovicz
For a huge number of IndyCar racing fans, October 31, 1999, was the day the music died. On that blackest of Halloweens, the sport lost its brightest young star: Greg Moore. No one person was capable of saving Indy car racing from destroying itself, but if anyone stood a chance, it was Moore. He was just twenty-four years old when he died, and already he had captivated a legion of fans and conquered the world-class drivers he fought against on the track in the CART series.
Moore ultimately didn’t factor in the 1999 CART championship battle that ended in a points tie between Franchitti and brash twenty-three-year-old rookie Juan Pablo Montoya after a modern-era record twenty races. But that remarkable title clash—and its tragic conclusion—was just one of many storylines during what was arguably the most compelling single season of competition in the one-hundred-year history of American open-wheel championship racing.
Class of ’99 recounts the 1999 CART season in detail, combining contemporary reporting and new interviews conducted by author John Oreovicz with many of the key players to bring the year’s personalities and storylines to life with nuance, depth, and reflection.
Lots of new 1/18 and 1/43 IMSA arrivals from TopSpeed/TSM Model this week including the #65 Mustang GT3 from their debut at Daytona in 2024. Check everything out HERE.
Our first New Product Announcements of the month contain a nice selection of 2025 IMSA competitors in both 1/18 and 1/43 scale along with a few other gems. The selections include Cadillac and Acura GTP and Ferrari, Porsche and Mercedes-AMG GTD entries from the 2025 24 Hours of Daytona and 12 Hours of Sebring. Check out the lists below.
