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McLaren F1 GTR Gulf Team Davidoff #41 P-H. Raphanel / J-M. Gounon FIA GT Championship 1997 Minichamps 1:43

McLaren F1 GTR Gulf Team Davidoff #41 P-H. Raphanel / J-M. Gounon FIA GT Championship 1997 Minichamps 1:43 533174341 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:43 McLaren F1 GTR wears Gulf Team Davidoff's light blue and orange racing colours, car #41 for Raphanel and Gounon in the 1997 FIA GT Championship. The sealed diecast body carries the full Gulf branding via tampo printing rather than opening panels. A strong anchor piece for any 1990s GT racing or Gulf-liveried collection.
McLaren F1 GTR Gulf Team Davidoff #41 P-H. Raphanel / J-M. Gounon FIA GT Championship 1997 Minichamps 1:43
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McLaren
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Minichamps
Scale
1:43
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
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533174341
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About the McLaren F1 GTR Gulf Team Davidoff #41 P-H. Raphanel / J-M. Gounon FIA GT Championship 1997 Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 McLaren F1 GTR reproduces Gulf Team Davidoff's #41 car, driven by Raphanel and Gounon in the 1997 FIA GT Championship. Diecast, sealed one-piece body, Gulf's light blue and orange livery tampo-printed in full. A road-derived Le Mans winner's racing descendant for a 1990s GT shelf.

Few liveries carry as much racing weight as Gulf's light blue and orange, a scheme forever tied to Le Mans through Ford and Porsche before it found its way onto McLaren's own Le Mans winner turned GT racer. This particular car raced through the 1997 FIA GT Championship, a season stacked with manufacturer-backed rivals.

Minichamps' Gulf-Liveried McLaren F1 GTR from FIA GT 1997

Car #41 for Raphanel and Gounon

Team Davidoff ran car #41 in Gulf's racing colours through the 1997 FIA GT Championship, with Pierre-Henri Raphanel and Jean-Marc Gounon sharing driving duties across a season that pitted the ageing F1 GTR against newer, purpose-built rivals from Porsche and Mercedes. Both drivers brought genuine sportscar racing pedigree to the seat, the kind of experienced pairing a competitive GT programme needed as the category's pace accelerated year on year. Minichamps reproduces the specific Gulf Team Davidoff scheme this car carried that season, including the sponsor placement and number board treatment, rather than a generic Gulf-liveried McLaren. That specificity matters to anyone who followed FIA GT closely enough to know one Gulf F1 GTR from another.

Gulf's Racing Blue and Orange in Miniature

Gulf's colour scheme is deceptively hard to reproduce well: the pale blue has to sit exactly right against the orange accents, and any drift in either shade reads immediately to anyone familiar with the livery from Ford's GT40 or Porsche's 917. Minichamps tampo-prints the scheme directly onto the sealed 1:43 shell, keeping the colour boundaries crisp along the doors and roofline where the two tones meet. The sponsor lettering for Team Davidoff sits cleanly beneath the main graphics without crowding them, and the wheel design carries through the period-correct five-spoke pattern. On a car this recognisable, getting the livery right is most of the job, and this casting does it convincingly.

The F1 GTR's Racing Pedigree

From Road Car to Le Mans Winner

The McLaren F1 GTR began life as a racing conversion of Gordon Murray's road-going F1, a car never designed for competition but adapted into one after customer demand made the case for it. In its first competitive outing, the F1 GTR won the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans outright, an almost unheard-of result for a car built around a road-going design rather than a bespoke racing chassis. That victory gave every subsequent F1 GTR, including customer cars like this Gulf Team Davidoff entry, a pedigree that newer purpose-built GT racers simply could not match, regardless of how much faster they eventually became on paper.

Competing Against Porsche and Mercedes in FIA GT

By 1997, the F1 GTR was no longer the fastest car in its class, facing dedicated GT racers like the Porsche 911 GT1 and, from 1997 onward, Mercedes' CLK-GTR, both designed from scratch for the category rather than adapted from a road car. Staying competitive against that kind of purpose-built opposition asked a lot of teams still running the McLaren, and results became harder to come by as the season progressed. That context makes a well-campaigned F1 GTR entry from this era worth more attention than a simple results sheet would suggest, since simply being competitive against newer machinery was itself an achievement worth marking.

An Anchor Piece for a 1990s GT Collection

A Gulf-liveried F1 GTR works as a genuine centrepiece for a 1990s GT racing shelf, recognisable enough to draw attention even from visitors with no particular interest in the category, and detailed enough to reward a closer look from someone who does. It pairs naturally with rival Porsche 911 GT1 and Mercedes CLK-GTR castings from the same seasons, letting the era's manufacturer rivalry play out across a few shelves rather than a single case. When assessing the model, check the Gulf livery's colour boundaries for sharpness, confirm the sponsor text reads cleanly, and look at how the wheel arches and splitter detail hold up under close inspection. This is as close to a hero piece as Minichamps' F1 GTR range gets, and it earns that status honestly.

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