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Audi R8 LMS GT3 #17 WRT M. Leonard / D. van der Linde / A. Riberas California 8 Hours 2018 Spark 1:43

Audi R8 LMS GT3 #17 WRT M. Leonard / D. van der Linde / A. Riberas California 8 Hours 2018 Spark 1:43
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Specifications
Car Brand
Audi
Model Manufacturer
Spark
Scale
1:43
Material
Resin
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
US084
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About the Audi R8 LMS GT3 #17 WRT M. Leonard / D. van der Linde / A. Riberas California 8 Hours 2018 Spark 1:43

TL;DR: Spark's 1:43 resin Audi R8 LMS GT3 #17 wears the WRT team livery from the 2018 California 8 Hours, a sealed one-piece body with no opening panels. It is a used example, and the box shows traces of storage. A precisely cast record of a specific multi-driver endurance entry.

Endurance racing at this level demands a car that survives eight hours of hard driving across three shift-sharing drivers, and this resin cast preserves that specific WRT entry with genuine precision.

Resin Precision for a Sponsorship-Heavy Livery

Cast resin holds crisper edges and tighter panel lines than diecast tooling generally achieves, an advantage that matters when a livery carries dense sponsorship graphics and precise team colour separations. With no opening parts, this casting presents its GT3 aerodynamic package, the flared arches, rear wing and front splitter, as one continuous, hand-finished form, and the #17 markings and driver names are applied cleanly across the bodywork. Spark's small-batch resin approach suits this kind of specific, dated livery well, since limited production runs match the collector demand for a particular race entry rather than a generic factory colour. This is a used example, and the box shows traces of storage, wear consistent with shelf time rather than anything affecting the printed livery or the casting itself.

A Specific Endurance Entry Worth Owning

The California 8 Hours tests GT3 machinery and driver rotation across a demanding stint length, and a three-driver entry like this one, fielded by WRT with Leonard, van der Linde and Riberas sharing the car, reflects that endurance format directly. Owning a replica tied to a named team, race and driver line-up gives a collection real provenance rather than an anonymous colour scheme. At 1:43, it sits naturally alongside other GT3 and GT4 endurance entries from the same era, and its compact scale allows several such liveries to be displayed together without demanding excessive shelf space.

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