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

About the Opel Astra V8 Coupe - Opel Team Holzer

The 2000 season of this DTM (German Touring Car Championships) thrilled European motorsports fans with plenty of fender-to-fender action unfurled by three major car manufactures: Mercedes-Benz, Opel, and Audi. Building on this excitement the 2001 period, the competition structure had been changed from two 100km events for a passing fancy time to one 35km super sprint qualifier battle, followed by the 100km primary race with mandatory tire modification. Like in the 2000 period, Opel entered eight finely tuned machines in the race. Different improvements had been built to a few of these devices including extended wheel bases and modified aerodynamics. Even though basic as a type of these racecars would not vary significantly through the manufacturing version of the Opel Astra, some got large bumper spoilers, over-fenders, side-skirts, rear-wings, alongside race-oriented goodies. But perhaps the many salient attribute of 2001 vehicles ended up being the gull-wing doors that exposed and shut via roof-mounted hinges. The machines had been equipped with 460hp outputting 4-liter V8 engines, which transferred capacity to a corner wheels via a six-speed sequential transmission. When driving for starters of the 3 devices entered by Team Holzer was expert motorist Joachim Winkelhock in their vivid orange colored machine. Although Opel Team Holzer had an arduous time acquiring noteworthy competition results throughout the first 50 % of the summer season, the team's winning potential was revealed when Winlkelhock took 4th spot throughout the fifth race at Norisring, where in fact the automobiles battled it from public roads closed to traffic.

Specs & Features

• 1/24 scale, total height: 196mm, total width 81mm. Model replicates device driven by Joachim Winkelhock under Opel Team Holzer.
• Gull-wing style doorways are efficiently opened and closed even with installation via metal hinges.
• Parts for propping up gull-wing doorways happen correctly recreated in this model.
• Roll-cage and car-interior are replicated aided by the utmost authenticity.
• Taillights use clear, clear red, and clear orange components.
• Metal transfer markings are included for grille, emblem, bonnet and door-catch.