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Ford Focus RS WRC #4 C. McRae / N. Grist Rally Monte Carlo 2001 Minichamps 1:43

Ford Focus RS WRC #4 C. McRae / N. Grist Rally Monte Carlo 2001 Minichamps 1:43 430018904 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:43 Ford Focus RS WRC diecast reproduces Colin McRae and Nicky Grist's #4 car from the 2001 Monte Carlo Rally, run by Ford's World Rally Team. Sponsor decals run unbroken across a sealed one-piece body, with correctly offset rally wheels and raised stance. A McRae piece for a British rally collection.
Ford Focus RS WRC #4 C. McRae / N. Grist Rally Monte Carlo 2001 Minichamps 1:43
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Car Brand
Ford
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:43
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
430018904
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About the Ford Focus RS WRC #4 C. McRae / N. Grist Rally Monte Carlo 2001 Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 Ford Focus RS WRC reproduces Colin McRae and Nicky Grist's #4 car from the 2001 Monte Carlo Rally, run by Ford's World Rally Team. Sealed diecast body carries full sponsor livery. A McRae piece for a British rally shelf.

Colin McRae remains the name most British rally fans reach for first, and this Focus RS WRC catches him mid-career, campaigning for the works Ford team at the sport's traditional season opener. Minichamps' 1:43 diecast fixes the exact 2001 Monte Carlo livery, sponsor panels and all, rather than a generic Ford rally colour scheme.

Colin McRae's Focus RS WRC at Monte Carlo 2001

Ford's World Rally Team and the Focus RS WRC

Ford's factory rally effort ran the Focus RS WRC through the turn of the millennium, a car built to World Rally Car regulations around the Focus road model but sharing little beyond its silhouette once the homologated aerodynamics, four-wheel-drive system, and turbocharged engine were fitted. The team had already established itself as a genuine championship threat by 2001, competing against Subaru, Peugeot, and Mitsubishi's works squads across a calendar that opened, as it traditionally did, with the Monte Carlo Rally. Minichamps' subject reflects the team at a point where the Focus had matured into a properly competitive package rather than a first-year development car.

McRae, Grist, and Car #4

Colin McRae, Britain's 1995 world champion, drove car #4 alongside long-time co-driver Nicky Grist at Monte Carlo in 2001, a pairing that had already carried McRae through much of his most successful rallying with Subaru before the move to Ford. Grist's presence in the co-driver's seat is part of the car's authenticity for a knowledgeable collector, since the driver-and-navigator combination mattered as much to period fans as the car itself. Fixing this exact event and season gives the model a specific moment in McRae's Ford career rather than a loosely-themed 'Ford rally car'.

Rally Livery Fidelity on a One-Piece Casting

Sponsor Decals Running Unbroken Across the Shell

The Focus RS WRC's sealed, one-piece diecast body works to the livery's advantage: sponsor panels and the Ford Rallye Sport colours run continuously across what would otherwise be separate opening panels, with no shutline breaking up the graphics where the real car's bonnet or boot met the body. Tampo printing keeps the registration crisp across the number panel and sponsor decals, avoiding the raised edge transfer-based liveries can show after handling. For a rally subject, where the livery carries most of the visual identity, that continuous, flat print quality matters more than it would on a plainer road car finish.

Wheel Offset and Wide-Arch Detail

The model's wide wheel arches and rally-spec wheels are cast with the correct offset, sitting flush within the arch rather than tucked too far inboard, a detail that separates a properly engineered rally casting from a generic sporty hatchback tooling reused across subjects. Ride height sits appropriately raised compared with a road car, reflecting the suspension travel the real Focus RS WRC needed across loose Monte Carlo surfaces and the occasional patch of snow the rally is known for.

A McRae Piece for a British Rally Collection

For a British collection, a McRae-liveried Ford carries weight that few other rally subjects match, and pairing this Monte Carlo car with other Focus RS WRC liveries from the same era builds a coherent picture of the team's early-2000s form. The accessible 1:43 diecast price point makes assembling several rally seasons realistic in a way a full 1:18 collection of the same subjects rarely allows. Displayed beside a Capri or an M3 from the touring car side of a collection, this Focus adds genuine gravel-and-tarmac contrast, and McRae's name alone gives it a talking point most rally models never quite earn.

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