Amalgam Ferrari SF-24 - 2024 Miami Grand Prix | Charles Leclerc 1:8 SCALE
- Limited to just 99 pieces per driver
- As raced to third and fifth positions by Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz in the Formula 1 Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix at Miami International Autodrome on the 5th of May 2024
- Adorned in the celebratory HP Partner livery in Azzurro La Plata and Azzurro Dino
- Each model hand-built and assembled by a small team of craftsmen
- 1:8 scale model, over 70cm/27 inches long
- Made using the finest quality materials
- Over 2500 hours to develop the model
- Over 250 hours to build each model
- Thousands of precisely engineered parts: castings, photo-etchings and CNC machined metal components
- Built using original CAD designs and paint codes supplied by Scuderia Ferrari
Scuderia Ferrari’s competitor for the 2024 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season, the SF-24 seeks to build on the platform of its predecessor, the race-winning SF-23. In the hands of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, in their sixth and fourth seasons with the team respectively, the SF-24 has already surpassed the total number of wins, podiums and fastest laps achieved in half as many races as in 2023. Both Sainz and Leclerc have a race victory apiece, the Spaniard winning the Australian Grand Prix despite having only had surgery for appendicitis two weeks earlier, whilst Leclerc became the first Monegasque driver since Louis Chiron to win his home Grand Prix in Monaco. The SF-24 has also accommodated the debut and first competitive points reserve driver Oliver Bearman as the replacement for Carlos Sainz during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix while the Spaniard underwent treatment.
The 70th single seater constructed by Ferrari for use in the FIA Formula 1 World Championship, the SF-24 is the third car of the new ground effect generation and, whilst an evolution of the 2023 car, looks aesthetically very different to its predecessor. Once again, the SF-24 shares the same shade of red as the World Endurance Championship competing 499P, again this year with a matte finish on the Formula 1 car. Following a positive reception to the Las Vegas livery last November, white makes a return to the SF-24's livery, alongside yellow which was last seen in the special 'yellow-touched' livery in Monza in 2022. Whilst it's not the first time that a Ferrari Formula 1 car has featured yellow, the yellow longitudinal stripes have not been seen since 1968, while this year, for the very first time, it is paired with white. There is therefore less black on the car than in previous years, now restricted to the floor, the bargeboards, part of the halo and other small areas. Red wheel covers also debut, featuring a double white and yellow stripe, and these colours also feature on the race numbers on the body and nose. The design group, led by Enrico Cardile, aimed to build upon the team's positive end to the 2023 season, giving Leclerc and Sainz a car that is easy to drive and that reacts predictably. The goal is to allow them to make the most of the power unit’s potential, combined with their undoubted skill behind the wheel, during Formula 1's busiest season ever, with no fewer than 24 races.
These fine 1:8 scale models are of the Ferrari SF-24 as raced to third and fifth positions by Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz in the Formula 1 Crypto.com Miami Grand Prix at Miami International Autodrome on the 5th of May 2024. Both Leclerc’s #16 and Sainz’s #55 cars were adorned in a special livery celebrating the announcement of HP as the new long-term Title Partner of Scuderia Ferrari, featuring two colours from Ferrari’s past: Azzurro La Plata and Azzurro Dino. The former is a lighter blue used as Argentina’s official race colour during the Fifties, and was very similar to two-time World Champion Alberto Ascari’s colour of preference. In the Sixties, Surtees, Lorenzo Bandini, Ludovico Scarfiotti and Chris Amon all wore blue suits, as did Niki Lauda in his first year with the Scuderia. Azzurro Dino is a much brighter blue that found favour with several Scuderia drivers, most notably Arturo Merzario and Clay Regazzoni during the early Seventies before the red of Philip Morris International became the dominant colour for all Ferrari cars and team members. The splashes of blue colour were used in combination with white on the wings, the engine cover, the halo, the rear-view mirrors and accenting the race numbers. The wheel rims were featured fully in Azzurro La Plata, evoking memories of the single-seaters and sports cars entered by the American Ferrari importer, Luigi Chinetti, under the N.A.R.T. (North American Racing Team) banner, as well as the blue and white 158 F1 driven World Championship glory by John Surtees and red Ferraris with dark blue stripes.
The Ferrari SF-24 Miami Grand Prix Edition is limited to just 99 pieces per driver.
