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Yamaha YZR-M1 Marlboro Yamaha Team #3 M. Biaggi MotoGP 2002 Minichamps 1:12

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Yamaha YZR-M1 Marlboro Yamaha Team #3 M. Biaggi MotoGP 2002 Minichamps 1:12 122026303 Diecast
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Minichamps' 1:12 diecast Yamaha YZR-M1 recreates Max Biaggi's #3 Marlboro Yamaha entry from the inaugural MotoGP season in 2002. Detailed bodywork opens over the race chassis and engine. A significant piece marking MotoGP's very first four-stroke championship year.
Yamaha YZR-M1 Marlboro Yamaha Team #3 M. Biaggi MotoGP 2002 Minichamps 1:12
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Specifications
Car Brand
Yamaha
Model Manufacturer
Minichamps
Scale
1:12
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
Used Model
SKU
122026303
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About the Yamaha YZR-M1 Marlboro Yamaha Team #3 M. Biaggi MotoGP 2002 Minichamps 1:12

TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:12 diecast Yamaha YZR-M1 wears Max Biaggi's #3 Marlboro livery from MotoGP's inaugural four-stroke season in 2002. Detailed opening bodywork exposes the race chassis and engine. A genuinely historic piece from motorcycle racing's most significant rule change in decades.

Biaggi's move to Yamaha coincided with MotoGP's biggest technical shift in a generation, making this 2002 machine a genuine piece of transitional racing history.

Diecast Detail on a Purpose-Built Race Chassis

The zinc alloy construction gives this 1:12 motorcycle real presence for a scale that's easy to underestimate, and the bodywork opens to expose chassis and engine detail representing the YZR-M1's new four-stroke powerplant, a genuine departure from the two-stroke machines that had dominated the category before this season. The Marlboro livery's red and white graphics are applied with clean registration across the fairing, tank and tail section, and the wheels and brake discs are rendered with enough sharpness to hold up under the close inspection a motorcycle model invites. Panel gaps around the opening fairing sections sit within normal tolerance for a diecast at this scale.

2002 and the Birth of Four-Stroke MotoGP

The 2002 season marked the first year of the newly renamed MotoGP championship's transition to four-stroke engines, a change that reshaped motorcycle racing technology and competitiveness across the grid. Yamaha's YZR-M1 was central to that new era, and Biaggi's championship-contending form aboard it that year made him one of the class's most recognisable riders through the early 2000s. For a MotoGP or motorcycle racing collection, a 2002 machine represents a genuine inflection point rather than just another season entry.

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