MINICHAMPS “Paul’s Model Art”
FORMULA
430 940002 WILLIAMS RENAULT FW 16
Rothmans / elf (cigarette advertisement doesn’t show)
Ayrton Senna, 1994
RARE, Difficult to find model.
Die cast
1/43 Scale; aprx. 4 ¼” x 1 ¾”
MSPR $36.00
NEW, OLD STOCK.
"The Williams FW16 was designed by Adrian Newey around a short wheelbase chassis. The car was designed with the major regulation changes that the FIA had introduced in the off-season, banning the electronic devices that had come to dominate the cars' internal management and re-introducing refueling into the racing.
The engine was a Renault RS6 3.5 V10 and the car’s main sponsor was
Rothmans. The car was the first non-active suspension Williams since the championship winning FW11. Some people theorize, due to the similarities in design between the FW15 and the FW16, that the car was designed with active suspension and traction control in mind, leading to a very twitchy front end.
The car proved to be a tricky proposition and only Senna's skill made the car competitive in the early part of the season. It is believed that a design flaw was discovered in the car's frontal section before the third race of the season but there was no time to do a major redesign before the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix in which Ayrton Senna tragically died whilst leading."
About MINICHAMPS: Germany based company has its manufacturing done in China. “When Paul’s Art entered the die cast arena in the early 1990s, the accuracy and quality of their product forced other manufacturers to improve their quality and value in order to compete. PMA models have excellent paint finishes and accurate details such as good armaments and door handles. The Models generally come packaged in a cardboard sleeve containing a plastic display box, to which the model is mounted with a screw”
Most Formula model comes without a cardboard sleeve.
Minichamps produced arguably the best F1 models in 1/43 scale. This series is very popular all over the world.
