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

About the Opel Astra V8 Coupe - Opel Team Holzer

The 2000 season of DTM (German Touring automobile Championships) happy 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 timeframe, the battle framework was certainly changed from two 100km occasions on a single time to at least one 35km super sprint qualifier battle, followed by the 100km primary race with mandatory tire modification. Like in 2000 season, Opel joined eight finely tuned services and products in battle. Different improvements was in fact designed to several of those devices including extended wheel bases and modified aerodynamics. Although fundamental as a type of these racecars cannot vary greatly from production as a type of the Opel Astra, some got big bumper spoilers, over-fenders, side-skirts, rear-wings, and various race-oriented goodies. But probably the many salient attribute regarding the 2001 cars ended up being the gull-wing doorways that launched and shut via roof-mounted hinges. The merchandise was in reality ready with 460hp outputting 4-liter V8 machines, which transferred capacity to a large component tires via a six-speed sequential transmission. Driving first of all concerning the 3 products entered by Team Holzer finished up being expert motorist Joachim Winkelhock within their vivid orange colored device. Although Opel Team Holzer had an arduous time getting noteworthy battle results through the complete initial 50 % of summer season period, the team's winning potential finished up being revealed whenever Winlkelhock took 4th location through the complete 5th battle at Norisring, where in fact the cars battled it from general public roadways shut to traffic.

Specs & qualities

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