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Aston Martin Rapide S #100 Bez / Schubauer 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2013 Minichamps 1:43

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Aston Martin Rapide S #100 Bez / Schubauer 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2013 Minichamps 1:43 437131300 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:43 diecast Aston Martin Rapide S reproduces the #100 entry driven by Bez and Schubauer at the 2013 24 Hours of Nurburgring, an unusual four-door grand tourer campaigned as an endurance racer. The sealed diecast body carries widened arches, a low racing stance, and clean sponsor livery printing. A genuine conversation piece for collectors building an endurance racing shelf that includes more than the usual GT3 coupes.
Aston Martin Rapide S #100 Bez / Schubauer 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2013 Minichamps 1:43
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Car Brand
Aston Martin
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:43
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
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437131300
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About the Aston Martin Rapide S #100 Bez / Schubauer 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2013 Minichamps 1:43

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 diecast Aston Martin Rapide S reproduces the #100 entry driven by Bez and Schubauer at the 2013 24 Hours of Nurburgring, an unusual four-door grand tourer campaigned as an endurance racer. The sealed diecast body carries the car's widened bodywork, roll cage-informed stance, and race livery faithfully.

Four-door cars rarely appear on an endurance racing grid, which makes the Rapide S's presence at the 24 Hours of Nurburgring a genuinely unusual sight. Aston Martin entered the grand tourer partly as engineering research and partly as a statement, proving the road car's platform could survive a full day and night of Nordschleife-inclusive racing.

Minichamps' Sealed-Body Casting of an Unlikely Endurance Racer

#100 Race Livery and Bodywork Widening

Minichamps casts this Rapide S as a sealed one-piece body, an entirely sensible construction choice for a race-prepared saloon whose bodywork carries widened arches and aerodynamic addenda rather than functioning doors a competition car has little use for. The #100 livery is reproduced with clean tampo-printed graphics, sponsor markings, and race number positioned across the bonnet, doors, and boot with sharp, well-registered edges. Colour separation holds firmly under close inspection, avoiding the slightly soft printing that betrays a lower-tier casting, and the overall scheme reflects a factory-associated entry rather than a privateer effort assembled with minimal graphics.

Ride Height, Wheels, and Roll Cage-Era Stance at 1:43

The widened arches needed to accommodate racing-width rubber are captured clearly in the model's proportions, sitting noticeably broader than a standard Rapide S road car casting would. Ride height is set low and level, reflecting suspension tuned for circuit use rather than the comfort-biased setup the production saloon actually ran, and the wheels carry a period-correct competition pattern rather than the road car's alloy design. Door mirrors, the front splitter, and rear diffuser elements are moulded into the shell rather than fitted separately, a practical simplification at this scale given how little such fine parts would add once the model sits at normal shelf viewing distance. Getting that widened stance convincing is what separates a genuine endurance-spec casting from a road car with stickers, and this model manages it.

Why a Four-Door Grand Tourer Raced at the Nurburgring

Aston Martin's Case for Testing the Rapide Platform

Entering a four-door grand tourer in endurance racing served a purpose beyond spectacle. The Rapide S shared its fundamental architecture with Aston Martin's road car range, and running it through the punishing conditions of a full 24-hour Nurburgring event provided genuine engineering data on how that platform coped with sustained, real-world abuse far beyond anything a typical owner would encounter. That kind of motorsport-derived validation has a long history in the industry, manufacturers using competition as a proving ground for production technology, and the Rapide S's Nurburgring outings fit squarely into that tradition rather than standing as a pure marketing exercise. Collectors who enjoy motorsport's odder footnotes will find genuine appeal in a subject this far removed from the usual GT3 grid.

Bez, Schubauer, and a Full Day on the Nordschleife

The 24 Hours of Nurburgring's combined circuit, blending the legendary Nordschleife with the modern Grand Prix layout, produces one of the longest and most physically demanding laps in endurance racing. Bez and Schubauer shared driving duties on this #100 entry, managing a car considerably heavier and less overtly race-bred than the GT3 and prototype machinery sharing the same track. Completing such an event in a modified road-based saloon required disciplined driving and careful car management as much as raw pace, and that unusual combination of subject and setting is precisely what gives this diecast its collecting interest.

A Genuine Conversation Starter for an Endurance Shelf

This Rapide S earns its place on an endurance-themed shelf precisely because it breaks the pattern, a four-door grand tourer sitting among GT3 coupes and prototypes that otherwise dominate Nurburgring diecast collections. It works well as a talking point piece, the kind of model that prompts a conversation about motorsport's stranger entries rather than simply representing another well-known GT3 programme. At 1:43, the saloon's larger real-world footprint still translates into a manageable shelf presence, comfortably sized alongside coupe-bodied endurance racers from the same era. Buyers checking fidelity should look first at the arch flare and ride height, the details that confirm this is a genuine race-prepared casting rather than a road car with a livery applied as an afterthought.

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