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Audi R8 LMS GT3 #100 M. Ekstrom / O. Jarvis Abt Sportsline 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2010 Minichamps 1:43

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Audi R8 LMS GT3 #100 M. Ekstrom / O. Jarvis Abt Sportsline 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2010 Minichamps 1:43 437101900 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:43 diecast Audi R8 LMS GT3 reproduces car #100, the Abt Sportsline entry driven by Mattias Ekstrom and Oliver Jarvis at the 2010 Nurburgring 24 Hours. The sealed diecast body carries the livery's number and sponsor graphics cleanly across the bodywork, a compact way to hold a slice of one of endurance racing's biggest grids.
Audi R8 LMS GT3 #100 M. Ekstrom / O. Jarvis Abt Sportsline 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2010 Minichamps 1:43
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Minichamps
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1:43
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437101900
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About the Audi R8 LMS GT3 #100 M. Ekstrom / O. Jarvis Abt Sportsline 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2010 Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 Audi R8 LMS GT3 reproduces car #100, the Abt Sportsline entry that Mattias Ekstrom and Oliver Jarvis drove at the 2010 Nurburgring 24 Hours. Built on Audi's road-going V10 platform, this sealed-body diecast carries the full race livery across a fixed, one-piece shell.

Nurburgring 24 Hours grids run past 150 cars, most invisible outside their own class. Car #100 stood out anyway: an Abt Sportsline Audi carrying two recognisable names, Mattias Ekstrom fresh off DTM success and Oliver Jarvis building the endurance career that would later take him worldwide. Minichamps keeps that specific pairing alive at 1:43.

Minichamps' 1:43 Cast of the #100 Abt Sportsline R8

Livery and Number 100 Detail

The #100 car wore Abt Sportsline's house colours, a scheme built around clean sponsor panels rather than a busy graphic package, which suits the smaller scale well. Minichamps registers the number and sponsor decals with sharp edges rather than the soft-focus print smaller diecast sometimes shows, and the line between the bonnet vents and the roof-mounted air intake stays crisp under close inspection. Because the body is a single sealed casting, the tampo work runs continuously across what would otherwise be a shut line on the real car, giving the livery an unbroken read from nose to tail. That continuity matters more on a race car than a road car, since a GT livery depends on graphics carrying across panels without interruption.

Sealed Body, Diecast Weight

Doors, engine cover and boot are cast into the shell, standard practice for Minichamps' 1:43 GT3 range and one that lets the tooling hold the R8's low, wide stance without hinge tolerances working against it. The zinc alloy body carries real weight for its size, dense in the hand rather than hollow, which keeps the wide rear wing and side skirts looking properly planted. Wheel detail picks out the GT3-spec centre-lock hubs and the deep front splitter that separated the race car from the road-going R8 it was based on, an area where cheaper diecast tends to simplify and lose the shape.

Audi's Factory GT3 Programme and the Nordschleife

The R8 LMS GT3's Road-Car Roots

Audi built the R8 LMS GT3 around the naturally aspirated 5.2-litre V10 from the production R8, one of the earliest examples of a manufacturer building a full GT3 customer car directly off a road model rather than adapting an older racing chassis. That approach became a template other manufacturers followed through the following decade. By 2010 the car had proven competitive against established GT3 rivals, and its combination of factory backing and genuine road-car engineering made it a popular choice for teams like Abt Sportsline, which had a long-standing relationship with Audi through its DTM programme.

Ekstrom, Jarvis and Abt Sportsline

Mattias Ekstrom came to this entry as one of DTM's dominant drivers of the period, a title-winner used to short sprint races rather than a 24-hour slog. Oliver Jarvis brought the opposite skill set, an endurance-focused driver who would go on to race at Le Mans and in the World Endurance Championship. Abt Sportsline paired the two inside a team already embedded in Audi's motorsport structure, giving car #100 both raw pace and stamina. The Nordschleife's blend of the Grand Prix circuit and the old 'Ring adds roughly twenty kilometres of narrow, unforgiving tarmac to every lap, a layout that punishes any pairing lacking both.

A Nurburgring Grid Piece for a GT3 Shelf

Car #100 is one entry among a race famous for its scale, which is exactly what makes a specific, well-documented livery worth seeking out rather than a generic GT3 casting. Displayed alongside other 2010-era GT3 machinery, it reads as a snapshot of one team's approach to a race where hundreds of amateur and professional crews share the same stretch of German tarmac. For a collector building a Nurburgring 24 Hours theme, or simply following Ekstrom and Jarvis's careers, this is a compact, honestly detailed way to hold that one entry in hand.

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