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

Regarding the Opel Astra V8 Coupe - Opel Team Holzer

The 2000 season of DTM (German Touring car Championships) delighted European motorsports fans with lots of fender-to-fender action unfurled by three major vehicle manufactures: Mercedes-Benz, Opel, and Audi. Building with this specific excitement the 2001 duration, the battle framework was indeed changed from two 100km occasions on the same day to one 35km super sprint qualifier battle, followed by the 100km main race with mandatory tire modification. Like in the 2000 season, Opel joined eight finely tuned products in battle. Different improvements had been designed to several of those machines including extended wheel bases and modified aerodynamics. Although basic form of these racecars could not differ greatly from production form of the Opel Astra, some got big bumper spoilers, over-fenders, side-skirts, rear-wings, and also other race-oriented goodies. But probably the numerous salient attribute of the 2001 automobiles wound up being the gull-wing doorways that opened and shut via roof-mounted hinges. The products was in fact prepared with 460hp outputting 4-liter V8 machines, which transferred capacity to a large part tires via a six-speed sequential transmission. Driving for starters regarding the 3 devices entered by Team Holzer ended up being expert motorist Joachim Winkelhock in their vivid orange colored unit. Although Opel Team Holzer had an arduous time getting noteworthy battle outcomes through the entire very first 50 % of summer time period, the team's winning prospective ended up being revealed whenever Winlkelhock took 4th location through the entire 5th battle at Norisring, where in fact the automobiles battled it from public roadways closed to traffic.

Specs & qualities

• 1/24 scale, total height: 196mm, total width 81mm. Model replicates device driven by Joachim Winkelhock under Opel Team Holzer.
• Gull-wing design doorways are effortlessly exposed and closed despite construction via steel hinges.
• components for propping up gull-wing doorways have already been precisely recreated in this model.
• Roll-cage and car-interior had been replicated along with the utmost authenticity.
• Taillights use clear, clear red, and clear orange components.
• Metal transfer markings are included for grille, emblem, bonnet and door-catch.