10% off your first order — create a free account

Create free account
✓ 14-day returns ✓ Hand-checked before dispatch ✓ Secure checkout
My account

McLaren MP4-31 Honda #22 J. Button McLaren Honda F1 Team Chinese Grand Prix 2016 Minichamps 1:18

Sold out
McLaren MP4-31 Honda #22 J. Button McLaren Honda F1 Team Chinese Grand Prix 2016 Minichamps 1:18 537161822 Diecast
1 / 7
Minichamps' 1:18 diecast McLaren Honda MP4-31 reproduces Jenson Button's #22 car from the 2016 Chinese Grand Prix, the second season of McLaren's Honda reunion. A specific race weekend for collectors following the partnership's gradual development.
McLaren MP4-31 Honda #22 J. Button McLaren Honda F1 Team Chinese Grand Prix 2016 Minichamps 1:18
Current price: £202.50

Price shown excluding UK VAT. Import VAT and the courier's customs clearance fee are collected on delivery.

Out of production

This model is currently sold out. Enter your email and we'll let you know when it's back in stock.

Browse McLaren models
Pay securely with
Specifications
Car Brand
McLaren
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
537161822
Genuine articles Sourced from manufacturers
5-layer carton Foam-filled interior
Hassle-free returns 14-day no-quibble returns
Secure payment Bank-level encryption

About the McLaren MP4-31 Honda #22 J. Button McLaren Honda F1 Team Chinese Grand Prix 2016 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast McLaren Honda MP4-31 reproduces Jenson Button's #22 car from the 2016 Chinese Grand Prix, the second full year of McLaren's Honda reunion. Diecast construction reproduces this specific race weekend's exact livery and sponsor configuration.

By 2016, the McLaren Honda partnership had one full difficult season behind it, and the MP4-31 arrived carrying hopes of visible progress rather than a fresh reunion's optimism.

Diecast Detail Specific to a Second-Season Chassis

A year-two car in any F1 partnership typically carries subtle bodywork revisions over its predecessor, and reproducing the MP4-31 accurately means capturing those changes rather than reusing the MP4-30's shape with a new season's decals. Minichamps' motorsport range regularly tracks this kind of incremental development across consecutive seasons, giving collectors distinct replicas for what might otherwise look, at a glance, like the same car twice. Expect the Chinese Grand Prix's specific livery configuration and Button's #22 applied with the diecast precision typical of the marque's F1 output.

A Season of Incremental Progress

2016 saw McLaren Honda still searching for genuine competitiveness, though the MP4-31 represented a step forward from the difficult debut year. A Chinese Grand Prix-specific replica captures one race within that ongoing development story, a partnership working, gradually, toward the pace everyone still hoped it could recapture.

Completing a Multi-Season Honda-Era Display

Set beside the earlier MP4-30 replicas, this Chinese Grand Prix car lets a collector trace McLaren Honda's development across consecutive seasons, chassis by chassis, race by race, a genuinely rewarding way to follow one of F1's most anticipated modern reunions.

Same marque, same scale

Collectors also bought

Browse all 1:18

10% off your first order

Create a free account and claim 10% off your first order — from hundreds of collectible 1:18, 1:43 and 1:12 models by Porsche, Mercedes-Benz, BMW and more.

Create free account Browse the collection
Collectible 1:18 scale Porsche model on a clean studio backdrop — Models118 first-order offer
0