McLAREN HONDA MP4-29H
PRELUDE TO BEING CHAMPION
"Success is 99 percent failure."
Soichiro Honda - Founder, Honda Motor Company
Honda had won the Formula 1 world championship once again with Red Bull Racing and Max Verstappen. The McLaren Honda MP4-29H is the "Prelude" to the story of how Honda became the F1 world champion once again. Honda engineers never give up to keep developing their power units despite they had faced many setbacks. As the result, Honda finally won the F1 world championship. "Success is 99 percent failure." The 1:43 McLaren Honda MP4-29H which elaborately reproduced the real car as the 1:43 scale model reminds us of the words of Honda's founder, Soichiro Honda.
Abu Dhabi, the place of beginning and ending
The McLaren Honda MP4-29H is a development car that has Honda's new F1 power unit for preparation to return to F1 in 2015. The McLaren Honda MP4-29H participated for the first time in a F1 official test in the Yas Marina Circuit after F1 Abu Dhabi Grand Prix, the final race in 2014. The McLaren Honda MP4-29H which had a lot of problems ran only five laps and recorded no time during two days in the test, despite Honda's engineers did hard work. The test was a tough F1 return for Honda. Seven years later, Honda had been the F1 world champion in Abu Dhabi, which is the same place where Honda returned to F1. Abu Dhabi is the place where Honda's F1 story started and ended with the F1 world champion.
Reproduced as a model for the first time
7.COLLECTION reproduced the McLaren Honda MP4-29H as a model car for the first time in the world. We chose 1:43 scale to reproduce the McLaren Honda MP4-29H, since it is easy to display. The 1:43 McLaren Honda MP4-29H which elaborately reproduced the real car has some features: For example, Honda logos which show the car has the Honda power unit, huge cooling louvers on the left side pod, rear suspension arms updated at the latter half of the 2014 season, several sensors on a development car-specific and so on.
Specs
Car | |
|---|---|
| Car name | McLaren Honda MP4-29H |
| No. | 32 |
| Driver | Stoffel Vandoorne |
| Race | Abu Dhabi F1 official test |
| Date | 25-26 November, 2014 |
| Circuit | Yas Marina Circuit |
| Best Time | - |
| Laps | 5 |
Model | |
| BRAND | Spark Model |
| Scale | 1:43 |
| Limited Edition | 300 pcs |
| Reference number | NY401140132 |
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