Tamiya 24248 - 1/24 Opel Astra V8 Coupe Team Holzer  [24248]

In regards to the Opel Astra V8 Coupe - Opel Team Holzer

The 2000 season of DTM (German Touring vehicle Championships) thrilled European motorsports fans with lots of fender-to-fender action unfurled by three major vehicle manufactures: Mercedes-Benz, Opel, and Audi. Building with this excitement the 2001 period, the battle structure had been changed from two 100km events on the same day to one 35km super sprint qualifier race, followed by the 100km main race with mandatory tire modification. Like in the 2000 season, Opel joined eight finely tuned devices in battle. Different improvements were designed to some of those machines including extended wheel bases and modified aerodynamics. Even though basic kind of these racecars couldn't vary greatly from production version of the Opel Astra, some got big bumper spoilers, over-fenders, side-skirts, rear-wings, as well as other race-oriented goodies. But perhaps the many salient characteristic of this 2001 automobiles ended up being the gull-wing doorways that opened and shut via roof-mounted hinges. The devices had been prepared with 460hp outputting 4-liter V8 engines, which transferred capacity to a corner tires via a six-speed sequential transmission. Behind the wheel for just one of the 3 machines entered by Team Holzer was expert motorist Joachim Winkelhock in his vivid orange colored device. Although Opel Team Holzer had a difficult time getting noteworthy race outcomes throughout the first half of the summer season, the team's winning potential ended up being revealed whenever Winlkelhock took 4th destination throughout the fifth battle at Norisring, where in actuality the automobiles battled it from public roads shut to traffic.

Specs & Features

• 1/24 scale, total height: 196mm, total width 81mm. Model replicates machine driven by Joachim Winkelhock under Opel Team Holzer.
• Gull-wing design doors can be efficiently opened and closed even with construction via metal hinges.
• Parts for propping up gull-wing doorways have already been exactly recreated in this model.
• Roll-cage and car-interior were replicated aided by the utmost authenticity.
• Taillights employ clear, clear red, and clear orange components.
• Metal transfer markings are included for grille, emblem, bonnet and door-catch.