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Audi R8 LMS GT3 #49 Krebs / Vogler Hankook 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2010 Minichamps 1:43

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Audi R8 LMS GT3 #49 Krebs / Vogler Hankook 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2010 Minichamps 1:43 437101949 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:43 Audi R8 LMS GT3 reproduces car #49, the Hankook-liveried entry driven by Krebs and Vogler at the 2010 Nurburgring 24 Hours. The sealed diecast shell carries the tyre brand's bold graphics through tampo printing, giving endurance-racing collectors a second grid entry from that year's race to pair alongside the Black Falcon car in the same series.
Audi R8 LMS GT3 #49 Krebs / Vogler Hankook 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2010 Minichamps 1:43
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Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:43
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
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437101949
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About the Audi R8 LMS GT3 #49 Krebs / Vogler Hankook 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2010 Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 Audi R8 LMS GT3 recreates car #49, the Hankook-liveried entry that Krebs and Vogler drove at the 2010 Nurburgring 24 Hours. The sealed diecast shell carries tampo-printed sponsor graphics, giving endurance-racing collectors a second grid entry from that legendary race's enormous field.

The Nurburgring 24 Hours draws one of motorsport's largest starting grids, often well over a hundred cars sharing the demanding twenty-five-kilometre Nordschleife alongside the shorter Grand Prix circuit. Among the GT3 field in 2010 sat car #49, an Audi R8 LMS carrying tyre manufacturer Hankook's livery, driven by Krebs and Vogler through the race's gruelling day-and-night format.

A Hankook-Liveried Entry in a Record Field

The Nurburgring 24 Hours' Enormous Grid

Unlike most endurance races, the Nurburgring 24 Hours mixes professional GT3 machinery with a huge field of production-based and amateur entries on the same twenty-five-kilometre combined circuit, producing grids that regularly exceed one hundred and fifty cars. That scale makes livery distinctiveness essential, since dozens of similarly shaped GT3 cars need to be told apart at a glance from trackside or in photographs. Car #49's Hankook livery served exactly that purpose in the 2010 race, with Krebs and Vogler sharing driving duties across the event's demanding mix of daylight stints and night-time running on one of the world's most challenging circuits.

Hankook's Livery Through Tampo Printing

Hankook's branding across the R8 LMS uses bold, high-contrast graphics designed for visibility rather than subtlety, and Minichamps reproduces that scheme through tampo printing straight onto the cast shell. That method keeps every logo and stripe flat against the surface, holding sharp edges and correct registration rather than the slight lift or misalignment a lesser transfer method can develop. Car number 49 sits clearly on the doors and roof even at this compact scale, and the tyre brand's colours carry cleanly across the R8's flared arches and low splitter without interruption, since the panel lines run beneath the paint as a single continuous casting.

Minichamps' Sealed 1:43 Reproduction

Shared R8 LMS Tooling and Panel Precision

This #49 casting shares its tooling with other Minichamps R8 LMS releases from the same era, the real car's roughly 4.4-metre body coming down to about ten centimetres at 1:43. Minichamps builds it as a sealed, one-piece diecast shell, with no opening doors or bonnet on this model, a standard construction choice at this scale. The zinc-alloy body brings genuine weight to a compact footprint and holds the R8's flared, low-slung stance dimensionally stable across years of handling, with tight, even shut lines running the length of each panel since no hinge tolerance needs designing into the tooling.

Where the Compact Scale Simplifies

Wing mirrors, the roof aerial and the front splitter mould into the shell as one continuous casting, and the wheels carry defined spokes with visible brake ducting behind them, matching the detail level found across Minichamps' other R8 LMS liveries from this race. Interior detail stays simplified at this scale, glimpsed through tinted glazing rather than inspected closely, the honest trade-off a compact format makes for its footprint. What the casting delivers is the R8's correctly proportioned GT3 stance and a paint finish that holds its gloss under cabinet lighting rather than fading over time.

A Second Grid Piece from the Same Race

This #49 Hankook entry pairs directly with the #102 Black Falcon car from the same 2010 Nurburgring 24 Hours, giving a collector two accurately liveried records of that year's grid rather than a single isolated piece. Building out a Nurburgring theme this way rewards patience more than a single hero purchase would, since the race's grid size means dozens of legitimate entries exist to pursue. At 1:43, both cars occupy the footprint a single larger-scale model would otherwise need alone.

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