Wednesday 23 October 2019

1/43 Model Review: 2019 Haas VF-19 Monaco GP version (Minichamps)

The Monaco GP will be most remembered for the weekend that paid tribute to three-time World Champion Niki Lauda after his passing away. Many cars carried a fitting tribute, with Haas running a red strip on their shark fin.
The Monaco GP itself never really puts on an entertaining race, and there wasn't much racing to talk about at that stage of the season. Both cars finished, with Grosjean finishing in 10th place for a single point, which are hard to come by for the team in 2019.


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I believe there are a couple of Monaco GP versions of the 2019 grid due to be released by model makers, so I suspect there will be more to feature soon. On this Minichamps model, I can't see much difference in terms of the shape to make it track specific and it's interesting that these cars are not limited edition with a set number of models made.

Because there's barely any difference from the base model, I'm not going to score it here, but you can read my review here.