Belgian rally legend Marc Duez had a prominent role in ensuring that the popularity of the Porsche 911 GT3 RS as a rally car increased as well as winning silverware along the way. There are now a large selection of Porsche 911 GT3 RS rally cars rallying throughout Europe and they continue to impress with their performance and awesome sound! The Road Challenge never really took off but as an alternative to more expensive World Rally Cars the Porsche GT3 RS offers an exciting, stimulating and enthralling choice - outright rally performance is decidedly lower from the GT3 than a WRC but for smiles-per-stage the GT3 is much better value (both inside and outside of the car!!)
The model pictured above is a limited production run (1104 in total) made by Minichamps and is of the car which Marc Duez and Mario Langer took to a class win and seventh overall on the 2006 Ardenne Bleue Rallye in Belgium. As with all modern Minichamps models quality is excellent, the 1:43 scale model is a great reproduction of the class winning rally car. As a depiction of the car at the start of the event this model is tremendous but during the often snowy rally Duez/Langer managed to remove the rear bumper from their car, the rear bumper on the Minichamps model remains firmly attached unless cutting equipment was to be used.....
In all seriousness this is another quality model from Minichamps and offers collectors and enthusiasts of Porsche, motorsport and rallying models an excellent addition to their collections.
