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Ford Escort WRC #5 C. Sainz / L. Moya Ford World Rally Team Rally Catalunya 1997 Otto 1:18

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Ford Escort WRC #5 C. Sainz / L. Moya Ford World Rally Team Rally Catalunya 1997 Otto 1:18 OT1179 Resin
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Otto's 1:18 resin Ford Escort WRC reproduces car #5, driven by Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya for Ford World Rally Team at the 1997 Rally Catalunya, Sainz's home event. Sealed resin construction holds sharp period sponsor livery across the rally-bodied Escort. A classic-WRC centrepiece for a 1990s rally display.
Ford Escort WRC #5 C. Sainz / L. Moya Ford World Rally Team Rally Catalunya 1997 Otto 1:18
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Specifications
Car Brand
Ford
Model Manufacturer
Otto
Scale
1:18
Material
Resin
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
OT1179
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About the Ford Escort WRC #5 C. Sainz / L. Moya Ford World Rally Team Rally Catalunya 1997 Otto 1:18

TL;DR: Otto's 1:18 resin Ford Escort WRC reproduces car #5, driven by Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya for Ford World Rally Team at the 1997 Rally Catalunya, Sainz's home event. Sealed resin construction holds sharp period sponsor livery, suiting a classic-WRC display built around Ford's 1990s rally programme.

Carlos Sainz moved to Ford's rally team in the mid-1990s, and this replica catches him on home gravel at Rally Catalunya, an event where a Spanish driver's result always carried extra weight with the crowd.

Otto's Resin Livery Work on a 1990s Rally Subject

Ford World Rally Team's late-1990s livery carried dense sponsor branding across the Escort's bonnet, doors, and rear quarters, and resin's sealed, single-piece body gives that graphics work a continuous surface to sit on. Otto's construction avoids the opening-door seams a diecast rally car might carry, keeping decal registration tight around the wheel arches and roofline, areas where period rally cars often carried additional branding and stone-guard detailing. At 1:18, the format is large enough to show that livery clearly, including the number-five roundel and co-driver naming that period regulations required on the door panels. Sealed construction trades interior access for that surface precision, a reasonable exchange on a subject defined by its paint scheme rather than cabin detail.

Sainz, Moya and Ford's Escort WRC Programme

Carlos Sainz and Luis Moya were one of the most consistent pairings in 1990s rallying, and their move to Ford put them in the Escort WRC against factory teams from Subaru, Toyota, and Mitsubishi during one of the sport's most competitive eras. Rally Catalunya held particular significance for Sainz as his home event, run on the tarmac and gravel roads of his native Spain, where local support added pressure and opportunity in equal measure. For a collector building a Ford rally chronology or a Sainz-specific career record, an Escort WRC from this exact event anchors a specific, well-documented season rather than a generic Ford rally shelf.

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