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BMW M1 #111 Team MK Motorsport J-L. Witmeur / Krankenberg / Libert 24 Hours of Le Mans 1986 Minichamps 1:18

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Minichamps' 1:18 diecast BMW M1 recreates the #111 MK Motorsport car raced at the 1986 24 Hours of Le Mans by Witmeur, Krankenberg and Libert, with opening doors and bonnet showing the race-prepped cabin and engine bay. A wedge-shaped 1980s GT icon for a Le Mans-themed shelf.
BMW M1 #111 Team MK Motorsport J-L. Witmeur / Krankenberg / Libert 24 Hours of Le Mans 1986 Minichamps 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
BMW
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
180862911
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About the BMW M1 #111 Team MK Motorsport J-L. Witmeur / Krankenberg / Libert 24 Hours of Le Mans 1986 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast BMW M1 wears MK Motorsport's #111 livery raced at the 1986 24 Hours of Le Mans by J-L. Witmeur, Krankenberg and Libert, doors and bonnet opening onto a race cabin and engine bay. A wedge-shaped 1980s GT racer for a Le Mans shelf.

The M1's mid-engine wedge shape was radical for a BMW road car in its day, and privately entered racing versions like this one carried that design into endurance competition years after production ended.

Opening Panels and Diecast Build of the BMW M1 Racer

The zinc alloy shell has genuine weight, and the doors and bonnet open onto a stripped racing cabin with roll cage and single seat, alongside an engine bay housing the M1's distinctive mid-mounted straight-six. Minichamps captures the M1's angular, Giugiaro-influenced wedge profile with clean, decisive body lines, a shape that still reads as unusual against most other GT racers of its era. The MK Motorsport livery prints with sharp registration, and the number 111 sits centred and legible on the doors, while panel gaps remain tight and consistent across the low, wide body.

The M1's Long Racing Life at Le Mans

BMW built the M1 primarily to homologate a racing programme, and though its factory competition career was relatively brief, privately run examples continued appearing at events like Le Mans well into the 1980s, this 1986 entry among them. Witmeur, Krankenberg and Libert's drive represents that extended amateur and semi-professional racing life the M1 enjoyed long after BMW's own works effort wound down. Displayed on a Le Mans or 1980s GT shelf, this M1 offers a genuinely different silhouette from the Porsches and Ferraris that usually dominate that period's grid, and its privateer status adds a grassroots motorsport story worth telling alongside the bigger factory names.

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