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McLaren MP4/21 #3 K. Raikkonen 2006 Minichamps 1:18

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McLaren MP4/21 #3 K. Raikkonen 2006 Minichamps 1:18 530061803 Resin
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Minichamps' 1:18 resin McLaren MP4/21 reproduces Kimi Raikkonen's car #3 from the 2006 Formula 1 season, his final year at McLaren before his move to Ferrari. The sealed one-piece body carries the team's period livery and sponsor tampos in fine, hand-finished detail. A well-placed entry for a collection tracing Raikkonen's early F1 career.
McLaren MP4/21 #3 K. Raikkonen 2006 Minichamps 1:18
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Car Brand
McLaren
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Resin
Model Condition
New Model
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530061803
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About the McLaren MP4/21 #3 K. Raikkonen 2006 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 resin reproduces the McLaren MP4/21, car #3 driven by Kimi Raikkonen through the 2006 Formula 1 season, his last year with the team before joining Ferrari. The sealed body carries McLaren's period livery in fine, hand-finished resin detail.

2006 sits at a hinge point in Raikkonen's career, the last McLaren season before Maranello, and this resin MP4/21 captures exactly that transitional year.

The MP4/21 in McLaren's Mercedes-Powered Era

A Season of Transition for Raikkonen

By 2006 Raikkonen had already established himself as one of the grid's fastest drivers, and this season, run with Mercedes power in the MP4/21, would be his last before a high-profile move to Ferrari for 2007. That context gives the car a specific significance beyond its results that year.

McLaren's Livery and Aerodynamic Detailing

The MP4/21 carried McLaren's chrome-and-black scheme of the period, a livery that has become one of the more instantly recognisable colour combinations of the mid-2000s grid, applied over a narrow-nosed, high-cockpit design typical of that regulation era.

Resin Detail for a Mid-2000s Single-Seater

This model has no opening panels, cast as a one-piece resin shell, and the MP4/21's narrow nose cone, tall front wing pylons and sculpted sidepod inlets are exactly the fine, compound-curved detail that resin holds more sharply than a die typically allows. Chrome-effect finishing across the sidepods and engine cover needs a smooth, consistent base to read convincingly, and resin's tighter casting tolerance gives it that even surface without the softer edges a pressure-cast body sometimes shows on fine trim. The car's low weight in the hand reflects the genuinely lightweight single-seater it reproduces, and sponsor branding from the period is applied by tampo print across the flanks and rear wing, registering cleanly against the compound curves without the raised edge a decal would leave. Front and rear wing end plates hold thin, sharp profiles rather than thickened approximations, which matters on a car whose aerodynamic detailing was as much a part of its identity as its livery.

A Career Milestone for an F1 Shelf

Placing 2006 Within a Wider Career

Collectors building a Raikkonen career run gain real value from including this final McLaren-era car alongside his later Ferrari and Lotus liveries, since it marks a clear turning point rather than just another season.

Shelf Footprint and Positioning

At 1:18 the narrow nose and tall cockpit surround of this regulation era give it a distinctly different silhouette to modern wide-bodied F1 cars, worth noting when grouping single-seaters from different decades.

For a collector tracing the shape of Raikkonen's career, or McLaren's Mercedes partnership more broadly, this MP4/21 is a specific, well-documented entry rather than a generic mid-2000s repaint.

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