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Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 #9 B. Schneider / J. Bleekemolen Black Falcon 24 Hours of Nurburgring Winner 2013 Minichamps 1:18

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Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 reproduces car #9, driven by Bernd Schneider and Jeroen Bleekemolen for Black Falcon to outright victory at the 2013 Nürburgring 24 Hours. Cast as a sealed one-piece body, the model carries every detail on its exterior: sharp Black Falcon livery, roof-mounted light pods for night racing, and tight panel gaps across the widened GT3 bodywork. A genuine documented-winner centrepiece for an endurance racing shelf.
Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 #9 B. Schneider / J. Bleekemolen Black Falcon 24 Hours of Nurburgring Winner 2013 Minichamps 1:18
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Car Brand
Mercedes
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
151133109
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About the Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 #9 B. Schneider / J. Bleekemolen Black Falcon 24 Hours of Nurburgring Winner 2013 Minichamps 1:18

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:18 diecast Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 reproduces car #9, driven by Bernd Schneider and Jeroen Bleekemolen for Black Falcon to overall victory at the 2013 Nürburgring 24 Hours. Cast as a sealed one-piece body, the model captures the endurance racer's livery and light pods on the outside of a shell whose real counterpart kept its gullwing doors.

The Nürburgring 24 Hours combines the full Grand Prix circuit with the Nordschleife into one of endurance racing's most demanding tests, and in 2013 Black Falcon's Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 won it outright with Bernd Schneider and Jeroen Bleekemolen sharing driving duties. Minichamps casts car #9 as a sealed one-piece shell, putting every detail of that winning livery on the exterior surface.

Black Falcon's 2013 Nürburgring 24 Hours Victory

The Nürburgring 24 Hours is unusual among endurance races for running on a combined circuit: the modern Grand Prix layout joined to the far longer, far more demanding Nordschleife, creating a track that punishes both car and driver across a full day and night of racing. Black Falcon, a German GT3 squad with a strong reputation in the series, entered the Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 in 2013 with Bernd Schneider, a multiple DTM champion and long-serving Mercedes factory driver, sharing car #9 with Jeroen Bleekemolen and other teammates across the 24-hour distance. Winning outright at the Nürburgring, rather than merely in class, meant beating a full field of GT3 rivals across conditions that typically include rain, fog and the Nordschleife's notoriously unpredictable weather pockets. Night sections of the race demand auxiliary lighting well beyond what a road car or a shorter-format GT3 race would need, and cars built for this event carry roof-mounted and bumper-integrated light pods specifically for the Nordschleife's unlit sections. That victory, achieved on one of endurance racing's most demanding circuits against a strong GT3 field, is exactly the kind of documented result that gives a racing diecast genuine provenance rather than an assumed livery.

Minichamps' SLS AMG GT3 Sealed Gullwing Racer Livery

The road-going SLS AMG's gullwing doors carried over into its GT3 racing version, an unusual choice among GT3 cars generally, since most manufacturers converted to conventional doors for easier pit access under racing conditions. Mercedes and its racing partners kept the gullwing mechanism functional on the real racing car regardless, a genuine engineering commitment to the SLS's signature identity even under competition regulations. This particular diecast, however, is cast as a sealed one-piece body with no opening panels, which shifts the entire craft argument to the exterior surface rather than the door mechanism. Shut lines around where the doors would sit read as crisp, continuous grooves rather than functioning seams, and the body holds tight, consistent panel gaps across the widened GT3 arches without the door hinge tolerances a functioning mechanism would otherwise require. The Black Falcon livery, with its distinctive team colours and sponsor graphics, sits over that shell through tampo printing that holds sharp registration around the car's creased bodywork, including the roof-mounted light pod detailing that identifies this as an endurance-specification car.

An Endurance-Winning GT3 in a Historic Racing Collection

Documented outright winners occupy a distinct tier within GT3 diecast collecting, separate from generically liveried entries of the same base car. A model tied to a specific, verifiable result, a named team, named drivers and a specific event, carries a completeness that a plausible-looking but unattributed livery simply doesn't offer, and that completeness matters more to serious collectors than raw detail level alone. Within Minichamps' broader GT3 catalogue, this SLS AMG GT3 sits alongside other manufacturer subjects from the same competitive category, and a shelf built around documented Nürburgring 24 Hours results specifically offers a coherent theme that a mixed, unattributed GT3 collection can't match. The car's Black Falcon association also connects it to one of German GT3 racing's most consistently successful privateer teams, giving the model a team-history dimension beyond the single race result alone.

Displaying a Documented Endurance Winner

At 1:18, the widened GT3 bodywork gives this model a noticeably broader stance than a road-going SLS AMG sharing the same shelf, and the roof-mounted light pods add a detail silhouette that immediately signals an endurance-specification racer rather than a sprint GT3 car. Even, diffused lighting suits the Black Falcon livery best, letting the sponsor graphics and team colours read clearly without harsh shadow lines interrupting the sealed body's clean surfacing. Positioned alongside other Nürburgring 24 Hours winners, or paired with a road-going SLS AMG to show the gullwing connection the racing version still honours mechanically, this piece anchors a genuinely themed endurance racing shelf. Few results in GT3 racing carry as much weight among enthusiasts as an outright Nürburgring win.

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