
BMW M235i Bong Motorsport #307 Nett / Akata 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2015 Minichamps 1:43

Specifications
- Car Brand
- BMW
- Model Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:43
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- New Model
- SKU
- 437152507
- Year
- 2015
- Era
- 2010s
- Body Type
- Touring Models
- Vehicle Class
- One-Make Cup Series
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- New
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 4012138130845
About the BMW M235i Bong Motorsport #307 Nett / Akata 24 Hours of Nurburgring 2015 Minichamps 1:43
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 diecast reproduces the Bong Motorsport BMW M235i, car #307 driven by Nett and Akata at the 2015 Nurburgring 24 Hours. The sealed race body carries printed cup livery, correct touring car stance and detailed alloy wheels. A compact piece for one-make cup and endurance collections.
One-make cup racing thrives on identical machinery and wildly different liveries, and the M235i Racing Cup was no exception. Minichamps' 1:43 casting keeps the Bong Motorsport entry's graphics and race number exactly as they ran at the Nurburgring, a modest but well-judged addition to a touring car shelf.
Minichamps' Rendering of the Bong Motorsport M235i
Cup Car Livery on a Fixed Race Shell
The body is cast as a single sealed shell, with no doors, bonnet or boot that open, and for a one-make cup livery that construction is genuinely useful: sponsor graphics and the #307 door number wrap across the panel lines without a shut line breaking the artwork. Bong Motorsport's colour scheme is printed via tampo rather than applied as a decal, which keeps the edges flat and the registration between colours sharp under close inspection. Race liveries live or die on that registration, and this casting holds it cleanly across the doors, bonnet and roof panel.
Touring Car Proportions and Wheel Detail
BMW's M235i Racing kept the road car's compact three-box silhouette, and Minichamps captures that proportion correctly rather than stretching the model toward a sportier stance the real car never had. The wheel arches carry a mild flare consistent with the cup regulations, and the wheels themselves show a credible multi-spoke racing pattern set at the correct offset within those arches. Glazing sits flush around the cabin, and the front splitter and rear spoiler, both cast into the body rather than applied separately, keep sharp edges without the fragility a bolt-on piece would risk at this scale.
The M235i Racing Cup and Nurburgring Endurance
BMW's Entry-Level Route into One-Make Racing
BMW built the M235i Racing Cup as an accessible one-make series through the mid-2010s, aimed at giving gentleman drivers and up-and-coming racers a straightforward path into competition using a near-standard chassis rather than a bespoke race car. That accessibility is exactly why the model matters for a broader touring car collection: it represents the entry point of BMW's motorsport ladder rather than a factory GT effort, and its liveries reflect independent teams and amateur budgets rather than works-level sponsorship. Cars from this category ran extensively in Germany's endurance series, including at the Nurburgring, where the combined Nordschleife and Grand Prix layout tested both car and driver over a full day and night.
Car #307, Nett, Akata and the 24 Hours Field
Entering car #307 with drivers Nett and Akata placed this M235i in the Nurburgring 24 Hours' mixed-class format, where cup cars, GT3 machinery and touring cars all share the same circuit at once. That variety is part of what makes the event so distinctive for collectors: a single race weekend produces liveries spanning several completely different classes, and a one-make cup entry like this one sits at the more accessible end of that spread. It is a useful reminder that endurance racing collecting does not require chasing only the fastest class on the grid.
A Compact Way to Cover a Cup Grid
Where the M235i Sits Among GT and Touring Models
At 1:43, a cup car like this one takes up little shelf space, which makes it easy to build a full field of M235i liveries from a single Nurburgring season without crowding out larger GT3 pieces. Judge this casting the way you would any touring car model: check that the splitter and spoiler sit flush with the body, confirm the livery graphics register cleanly across the doors, and look at the wheel offset against the arch line. This M235i holds up on all three, and it pairs naturally with the GT3 machinery from the same event for anyone building a complete Nurburgring 24 Hours grid across classes.















