
Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 #22 Rowe Racing Graf / Jager Nurburgring 24 Hours 2013 Minichamps 1:43

Specifications
- Car Brand
- Mercedes
- Model Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:43
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- New Model
- SKU
- 410133222
- Year
- 2013
- Era
- 2010s
- Body Type
- GT Models
- Vehicle Class
- GT3 & GT4 Race
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- New
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 4012138120624
About the Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 #22 Rowe Racing Graf / Jager Nurburgring 24 Hours 2013 Minichamps 1:43
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 reproduces car #22, entered by Rowe Racing with Graf and Jager for the 2013 Nurburgring 24 Hours. Cast as a sealed diecast body, it carries the full endurance livery and sponsor graphics crisply printed, a focused entry for a Nurburgring-themed GT3 shelf.
The Nurburgring 24 Hours draws one of the deepest GT3 fields anywhere in endurance racing, dozens of near-identical cars separated only by livery and driver line-up. Rowe Racing's SLS AMG GT3, shared here between Graf and Jager, is exactly the kind of entry that gives a 24-hour field its character.
Rowe Racing's Car #22 at the Nurburgring 24 Hours
A GT3 Grid Built on Sheer Numbers
The Nurburgring 24 Hours has long run one of the largest starting grids in motorsport, often well over 150 cars split across multiple classes on the same 25-kilometre Nordschleife-and-GP combined circuit. GT3 machinery makes up a large share of that field, professional and gentleman-driver squads running effectively identical cars from several manufacturers, which means a team's identity comes almost entirely from its livery and car number rather than any mechanical distinction visible from the grandstands. Mercedes fielded the SLS AMG GT3 across exactly this kind of grid through the early 2010s, and Rowe Racing was one of the established German squads running it at the Nordschleife.
Graf, Jager and the SLS AMG GT3 Entry
Car #22 carried Graf and Jager among its driver line-up for the 2013 running, part of the rotating multi-driver crews the 24-hour format demands to cover a full day and night of racing. The SLS AMG GT3 itself was Mercedes' first purpose-built GT3 racer derived from the road-going SLS, its long bonnet and wide rear haunches carried straight over from the production car beneath a full aerodynamic package. Minichamps' casting captures that silhouette accurately, the SLS's distinctive proportions still readable under the splitter, skirts and rear wing a GT3 regulation demands.
Minichamps' Sealed Body and Endurance Livery
Sponsor Graphics on a Fixed Shell
Minichamps casts this SLS as a single sealed body, doors, bonnet and boot fixed rather than hinged, which for a livery-driven subject works entirely in the model's favour. Sponsor panels and team graphics wrap continuously across the flanks without a shut line interrupting the artwork the way a moving door would demand. Tampo-printed decals sit flat against the surface rather than raised, holding sharp edges at the boundary between colours where a lesser print method would blur or lift. The wide GT3 arches and low roofline hold their proportions correctly at 1:43, and the fixed shell lets Minichamps keep every panel gap consistent across the whole body.
Race Number and Class Marking Detail
The #22 roundel sits crisply outlined on the doors and roof, sized and placed to match how it ran at the Nordschleife, and class marking decals follow the same clean registration. Splitter, side skirts and rear wing carry their aerodynamic shapes without the softening a lower tier of tooling would introduce, and the wheels show correct GT3 offset within the flared arches rather than sitting tucked too far inboard. For a car whose entire identity on track came from its number and colours rather than any unique bodywork, getting that graphic work sharp is what makes or breaks the model.
Building a Nurburgring 24 Hours Grid
This car earns its place as one entry in a larger Nurburgring 24 Hours collection rather than a standalone showpiece, the format's whole appeal lying in fielding several liveries side by side and letting the grid's scale speak for itself. Pair it with other GT3 entries from the same era, Audi, Porsche, BMW, and the shelf starts to resemble the actual grid rather than a single manufacturer's highlight reel. At 1:43 a dozen cars fit comfortably across one shelf, which is really the only scale that makes a full-grid Nordschleife display practical at all. Given the sealed body and Minichamps' mid-tier race-livery positioning, this is a sensible, well-executed building block for anyone assembling a serious endurance racing collection rather than a single hero piece.















