
Porsche 935/76 Martini Racing #1 R. Stommelen / M. Schurti ADAC 1000km Nurburgring 1976 Minichamps 1:43

Specifications
- Car Brand
- Porsche
- Model Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:43
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- Used Model
- SKU
- 400766301
- Year
- 1976
- Era
- 1970s
- Body Type
- GT Models
- Vehicle Class
- Group 5 & Silhouette Racing
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- Traces of Storage
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- —
About the Porsche 935/76 Martini Racing #1 R. Stommelen / M. Schurti ADAC 1000km Nurburgring 1976 Minichamps 1:43
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 Porsche 935/76 reproduces the Martini Racing #1 car of Rolf Stommelen and Manfred Schurti at the 1976 ADAC 1000km Nürburgring, the debut season of Porsche's Group 5 silhouette racer. A sealed diecast body carries the full wide-body livery and factory racing detail.
Group 5's new silhouette rules let Porsche stretch the 911 turbo shape into something far wider and lower, and the 935 was the result. This Minichamps casting recreates the car's first competitive season, when Stommelen and Schurti carried the Martini colours to the Nürburgring in one of Group 5's earliest outings.
The Porsche 935 and 1976 Group 5 Debut
Silhouette Racing Rules and the 930 Turbo Base
Group 5's silhouette regulations, introduced for the 1976 season, allowed manufacturers to keep only the basic silhouette of a production road car while reworking almost everything beneath it. Porsche took the 930 Turbo, its production flagship, and turned it into a purpose-built racer: flared box arches to cover wide racing tyres, a deep front spoiler, and a rear wing that bore little resemblance to the road car's whale tail. Beneath the bodywork sat a turbocharged flat-six tuned well beyond anything sold to the public. The result looked like a 911, technically satisfied the rules, and had almost nothing else in common with the car in Porsche showrooms.
Martini Racing Livery and the Nürburgring Entry
Martini Racing's white, blue, and red stripes had already become closely associated with Porsche's factory sportscar programme through the preceding 917 and 908 eras, and the sponsorship carried straight over to the new 935. The ADAC 1000km Nürburgring formed part of the World Championship for Makes calendar, a proving ground for the car in only its first year of competition. Rolf Stommelen, an experienced Porsche factory driver with a long endurance-racing pedigree, shared the #1 car with Manfred Schurti, another established name in German sportscar racing at the time.
Minichamps' Sealed-Body Race Casting
Wide-Body Panel Work in Diecast
The 935's flared arches and deep front spoiler are demanding shapes to cast accurately, and Minichamps builds this model as a fixed, one-piece shell rather than an opening one, the more practical route to holding those box-arch lines crisp and consistent. Zinc alloy diecast gives the wide body the weight and rigidity needed to keep those flared edges sharp, and the low, flat stance sits correctly on the wheels without looking propped up. The rear wing and front splitter are moulded as part of the casting, keeping their delicate profiles intact rather than risking separately fitted parts.
Livery Registration and Applied Detail
Getting the Martini stripes to register cleanly over such a heavily flared body is the real test of quality on a model like this, and the tampo-printed graphics here follow the arches and door lines without breaking at the changes in surface angle. The #1 roundel, sponsor decals, and period-correct number font all sit flat against the paint rather than looking applied as an afterthought. Wheels carry the correct racing offset for the flared arches, and the exhaust and diffuser detail behind the sealed body hold their shape under close inspection.
A Group 5 Anchor for an Endurance Racing Shelf
The 935 lineage went on to dominate Group 5 racing for years, eventually taking outright victory at Le Mans in 1979 through a privately built Kremer K3, which makes this early-season 1976 factory outing an interesting starting point rather than the car's best-known result. At 1:43, the model sits comfortably with other Group 5 and Group C prototypes from the same Minichamps race range, useful for anyone building a shelf around 1970s Porsche endurance racing. The Martini colours alone make it a recognisable entry point for a Porsche motorsport collection.















