Miniature Steering Wheels

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The first Formula One car to be fully designed by BMW, the F1.07 was BMW Sauber’s contender for the 2007 season. Retained from last season, Nick Heidfeld and Robert Kubica piloted the car with future four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel taking the test and reserve driver role. Timo Glock was later signed as the team's second test driver as Vettel left for the Toro Rosso team.

Pre-season testing was very positive, leading to speculation that BMW could surprise the top teams, though BMW played down speculation citing reliability concerns. The F1.07 would go on to score points at every single race during the season and only once fail to have both cars qualify in the top ten, establishing the team as the third-fastest behind Ferrari and McLaren. It was acknowledged by team principal Mario Theissen that the performance gap between BMW Sauber and the two teams in front was less than the gap to the teams behind.

The F1.07 was also involved in one of the biggest crashes of the modern Formula One era at the Canadian Grand Prix. Kubica made contact with Jarno Trulli's Toyota whilst approaching the hairpin on lap 27 and hit a hump in the grass, lifting the car's nose into the air and leaving him unable to brake or steer. The car then hit the concrete retaining wall at 300.13 km/h (186.49 mph) and rolled as it came back across the track, striking the opposite wall on the outside of the hairpin and coming to rest on its side. It was later found that he had been subjected to a peak force of 75G during the crash. Kubica escaped with a sprained ankle and light concussion. Test driver Sebastian Vettel took Kubica’s place in the American Grand Prix, finishing eighth and becoming the youngest driver to score a FIA Formula One World Championship point at the time.

The F1.07 scored two podiums during the season, both through Heidfeld: second in Canada and third in Hungary. Overall, the team scored 101 Championship points and finished second in the Constructors’ Championship, partly due to McLaren’s disqualification. BMW Sauber had twice as many points as third place Renault but half as much as the totally dominant Ferrari team.

This fine 1:4 scale model of the BMW Sauber F1.07 Steering Wheel has been handcrafted and finished in our workshops with the co-operation and assistance of the manufacturer regarding original finishes, materials, archive imagery and drawings. Furthermore, it has undergone detailed scrutiny by both engineering and design teams to ensure complete accuracy of representation.

Please note that our 1:4 scale steering wheels do not come with moving parts.

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The only car to ever compete for one-season wonder Brawn GP began life as the Honda RA109, before Honda’s withdrawal from the sport in December 2008. The team were purchased in a management buyout and named after their new Team Principal Ross Brawn. After losing their original engine supplier, the BGP 001 was mounted with a naturally aspirated V8 Mercedes-Benz FO109W engine. Even though the Mercedes power unit was the best fit, compromises still had to be made. Incredibly, six inches were cut from the chassis’ rear just to fit the engine and then the gearbox was in the in the wrong place because the crank-centre height was different. Ross Brawn himself admitted the car was “too heavy, the centre of gravity [was] too high and there [were] things which are not good on the car”. The car had one notable quality, however, that had not been compromised: the controversial double-decker diffuser. Also used by Williams and Toyota, ‘non-diffuser’ teams Ferrari, BMW Sauber, Renault and Red Bull all launched official complaints over its legality. Race stewards cleared the car to race in Australia and then Malaysia before the FIA’s International Court of Appeal concluded the designs were legal.

With that cleared, the BGP 001, driven by the retained Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello, powered to victories in five of the first six races, becoming the first team to score a 1-2 finish in their debut race since Mercedes in 1954 and becoming the new only constructor to win their first two races since Alfa Romeo won the first ever World Championship Grand Prix races in 1950. Limited resources also caused Brawn to break a further record; it was the first time one specific build of engine had won three Grand Prix races in succession. Button and Brawn would clinch the Drivers’ and Constructors’ Championships in the penultimate race of the season in Brazil. Barrichello finished third in the Drivers’ standings.

The BGP 001, in its one and only season, claimed eight race victories, six further podiums, five pole positions, four fastest laps, 172 Championship points, a Drivers’ Championship and a Constructors’ Championship. As Brawn had very limited resources, Button used the same chassis every practice, qualifying session and race between the 2009 Australian Grand Prix and the 2009 Brazilian Grand Prix, meaning he clinched the title in the oldest car on the grid.

This fine 1:4 scale model of the Brawn BGP 001's Steering Wheel has been handcrafted and finished in our workshops with the co-operation and assistance of the manufacturer regarding original finishes, materials, archive imagery and drawings. Furthermore, it has undergone detailed scrutiny by both engineering and design teams to ensure complete accuracy of representation.

Please note that our 1:4 scale steering wheels do not come with moving parts.

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• Based on the steering wheel used by Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz during the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship
• Each model hand-built and assembled by a small team of craftsmen
• 1:4 scale replica, over 7 cms/3 inches wide
• Made using the finest quality materials
• Over 450 hours to develop the model
• Precisely engineered parts: castings, photo-etchings and CNC machined metal components
• Built using original CAD designs and paint codes supplied by Scuderia Ferrari

Ferrari’s competitor for the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship season, the SF-23 is Maranello’s spearhead for their mission to propel themselves back into title contention. In the hands of Monegasque racer Charles Leclerc and Spaniard Carlos Sainz, in their fifth and third seasons respectively with the team, the SF-23 will be looking to continue the Scuderia’s progress in the Constructors’ Championship after claiming four wins and finishing second in the standings during the 2022 season.

Whilst the SF-23 is officially an evolution of the previous season’s F1-75, which is no surprise as the team’s 2022 entrant claimed a season-high 12 pole positions, underneath the surface much of the car has been completely redesigned. The SF-23’s features increased vertical downforce in order to recover overall downforce lost to the season’s updated aero regulations and achieve the desired balance characteristics for the drivers. The suspension has also been redesigned, to support aerodynamics and increase the range of adjustments that can be made to the car at the track. The most obvious changes are in the area of the front suspension: low track rods, a revised front wing and nose construction. The bodywork was also updated, with slimmer sidepods. One of the F1-75’s biggest faults during 2022 was the reliability of its power unit, so much of the SF-23’s development over winter months focused on making the internal combustion engine and electric motors more robust, to handle a more aggressive setup and eliminate the weaknesses of the power unit.

This fine 1:4 scale model of the Ferrari SF-23 Steering Wheel has been crafted and finished in the workshops of Amalgam Collection using detailed colour and material specifications, and original CAD data supplied directly from the drawing office of Ferrari. Furthermore, each replica undergoes detailed scrutiny by both engineering and design teams to ensure complete accuracy of representation.

After an extravagant car launch that involved shutting a large chunk of downtown Valencia, the MP4-22 would provide McLaren with a very competitive car for what would become a very attention-grabbing season on and off the track.

Driven by two-time World Champion Fernando Alonso and rookie Lewis Hamilton, the MP4-22 was designed to bounce back from a winless 2006 season. When discussing the design philosophy of the new car, McLaren’s designers claimed the MP4-22 featured “some advanced engineering concepts” and “novel aerodynamic solutions”.

The MP4-22 proved to be a lot more competitive than its predecessor. It won in Malaysia, Monaco, Canada, the US, Germany, Hungary, Italy and Japan, and was the most reliable car on the grid, only suffering two retirements – neither of which was mechanical. There wasn’t a single race in which a MP4-22 didn’t make the podium. McLaren scored more points in the first half of the season than in the whole of the previous year. All of these points were in vain, however, after McLaren were expelled from the constructors’ championship for their role in a case involving confidential technical information, referred to as ‘Spygate’.

Whilst the team were excluded, the drivers were not and, going into the final race of the season in Brazil, Hamilton led Alonso by four points with Ferrari’s Kimi Räikkönen three more points behind. Alonso finished third and Hamilton seventh (after suffering rare gearbox issues), whilst Räikkönen won the race and consequently the drivers’ championship, finishing above Hamilton and Alonso in the standings by a single point.

Overall, the MP4-22 took victory on eight occasions, finishing on the podium a further 13 times. Hamilton won four races, gained eight more podiums and scored 109 championship points. He recorded nine consecutive podium finishes and six pole positions, more than any other rookie in Formula 1 history. Hamilton also equalled Jacques Villeneuve’s records of the most wins and the highest championship finishing position in a debut season.

This fine 1:4 scale model of the McLaren MP4-22 Steering Wheel has been handcrafted and finished in our workshops with the co-operation and assistance of the manufacturer regarding original finishes, materials, archive imagery and drawings. Furthermore, it has undergone detailed scrutiny by both engineering and design teams to ensure complete accuracy of representation.

Please note that our 1:4 scale steering wheels do not come with moving parts.

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The car that returned the World Constructors’ Championship to Milton Keynes after an eight-year absence, the RB18 was Oracle Red Bull Racing’s competitor for the 2022 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season, and will be forever remembered as the car that dominated the first year of the new aerodynamics era. Swiftly becoming one of the most successful cars in the sport’s history, the RB18 won seventeen of the twenty-two races, fifteen with reigning World Champion Max Verstappen and two in the hands of Sergio Pérez.

The RB18 proved to be a masterful response to a set of radically new aerodynamic regulations for the 2022 season, which proved problematic for most other teams. It did not start the year as the fastest car, instead that honour fell to the Ferrari F1-75, and had to be developed over the course of the season to unleash its full potential. The RB18’s designers developed many unconventional but ultimately pioneering components, many of which that were later replicated by their rivals, the ultimate compliment to the engineers’ ingenuity.

Pre-season testing in Barcelona and Sakhir indicated the strength of the RB18 chassis, with Red Bull and Ferrari appearing to have the fastest cars at the outset. It was a disastrous start to the season for the team at the opener in Bahrain however, as both drivers retired towards the end of the race due to fuel lock issues. A week later in Saudi Arabia, Pérez claimed a maiden pole position, though he was only to finish fourth after an unfortunately timed safety car, but Verstappen seized the team’s first win of the season, capitalising on superior tyre warm up after a late virtual safety car period. Pérez followed this up with a second position at the Australian Grand Prix, inheriting the position from Verstappen after he retired with a fuel leak.

Red Bull proceeded to dominate the next seven rounds, Verstappen taking victories in Emilia-Romagna, Miami, Spain, Azerbaijan and Canada, with a third position in Monaco as well. Pérez emerged triumphant in Monaco after taking full advantage of strategic errors by Ferrari, only his third career win, and regularly finished second to his teammate, except for a fourth position in Miami and a retirement in Canada, forced by a gearbox issue. The team’s performance dipped at the British and Austrian races, though both drivers claimed a second position. Verstappen could only finish seventh at Silverstone after suffering damage to his car after driving over debris, whilst Pérez span into the gravel after contact with a Mercedes in Austria, ultimately retiring with floor damage. Heading into the halfway point of the season, Red Bull had established an intimidating lead in both championships, though Ferrari and Charles Leclerc were still a threat.

However, after the summer break, a galvanised Verstappen began to dominate proceedings, winning nine of the remaining eleven races of the season, sealing his second World Drivers’ Championship in Japan with four races still to go. An emotional victory in the subsequent US Grand Prix, a day after Red Bull co-founder and owner Dietrich Mateschitz passed away, saw the team clinch a milestone fifth World Constructors’ Championship title, and their first since 2013. At the next race in Mexico, Verstappen won again, breaking the record for most wins in a Formula 1 season previously joint held by Michael Schumacher and Sebastian Vettel. He would extend the record with a further win at the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi, as well as amassing the most points in a single season, 454, beating the record set by Lewis Hamilton in 2019.

Meanwhile, Pérez recorded his second win of the season in Singapore as well as podiums in Belgium, Japan, Mexico and Abu Dhabi. While the Mexican’s form wasn’t quite as strong as the first half of the season, fewer reliability issues saw him earn more points, though Perez finished third in the championship standings after being beaten by Leclerc at the final race of the season.

Overall, the Oracle Red Bull Racing RB18 earned seventeen wins, eleven further podiums, eight pole positions and eight fastest laps, scoring 759 points and winning Oracle Red Bull Racing the World Drivers’ Championship and World Constructors’ Championship.

This fine 1:4 scale model of the Oracle Red Bull Racing RB18 steering wheel, as used during the 2022 FIA Formula 1 World Championship season by Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez, has been crafted and finished in the workshops of Amalgam Collection using detailed colour and material specifications, and original CAD data supplied directly from the drawing office of Oracle Red Bull Racing. Furthermore, each replica undergoes detailed scrutiny by both engineering and design teams to ensure complete accuracy of representation.

Built to retain Oracle Red Bull Racing both the World Drivers’ and World Constructors’ titles for the first time in a decade, the RB19 is Milton Keynes’ competitor for the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship. Driven by the reigning World Champion Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez, teammates for the third consecutive season, the RB19 is already on the march to another title double, with Oracle Red Bull Racing scoring more than twice the points of their closest competitors.

The RB19 is an evolution of the dominant RB18 that won seventeen of the twenty-two races in the previous season. Designed by Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey, there were already several unique features on the RB18 which have been retained by the RB19, notably the greater curvature of its tunnel roof and the extreme angle of its front suspension’s anti-dive geometry. The 2023 season car has also retained the extreme angle of anti-dive in the front suspension, as well as having increased levels of anti-squat in the rear suspension, achieved by mounting the rearmost top wishbone link even higher than before, to a structure above that of the gearbox to which it was previously attached. Those three features – the curved tunnel roof, the extreme anti-dive front and anti-squat rear suspensions – and the way they all work in conjunction, are likely very closely linked to the team’s great performance in the new era of regulations. The RB19 is also gaining significant advantages when using DRS, even more so than its predecessor.

As of the summer break, the Oracle Red Bull Racing RB19 has won all twelve races it has competed in, with a further seven podiums, nine pole positions and eight fastest laps, scoring 503 World Championship points. Max Verstappen has won ten of those races, finishing second only to Sergio Pérez in the other two races. The RB19 is already the most dominant car in Formula 1 history playing a key role in the Oracle Red Bull Racing’s record-setting thirteenth consecutive win at the Belgian Grand Prix, breaking McLaren’s twelve race winning streak in since 1988.

This fine 1:4 scale model of the Oracle Red Bull Racing RB19 steering wheel, as used by Max Verstappen and Sergio Pérez during the 2023 FIA Formula One World Championship season, has been crafted and finished in the workshops of Amalgam Collection using detailed colour and material specifications, and original CAD data supplied directly from the drawing office of Oracle Red Bull Racing. Furthermore, each replica undergoes detailed scrutiny by both engineering and design teams to ensure complete accuracy of representation.

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One of the most dominant Formula One cars of all time, the RB7 was an evolution of the previous year’s Championship-winning RB6. Though new regulations forced some changes to the car, such as the ban on double deck diffusers, the Adrian Newey-led technical team exploited the pull rod rear suspension that was introduced in 2009. The RB7 was driven by newly crowned world champion Sebastian Vettel and his Australian team-mate Mark Webber, in what would become a bitter team rivalry.

Pre-season testing at Valencia and Barcelona was extremely positive as the RB7 was consistently setting the pace for others to follow, an omen of the season to come. The RB7 would dominate the season opener in Melbourne, Vettel qualified on pole by eight tenths of a second and winning the race by twenty-two seconds. The sheer pace of the RB7 was supreme, especially as it didn’t use a a KERS unit which many of its rivals had integrated. Of the nineteen races, only in Korea did another car start on pole and yet Vettel still remained on the front row. In fact, the only things as impressive as the car’s pace were its consistency and reliability; the RB7 only failed to finish outside the top five on two occasions all season, both accounted for by retirements. Webber crashed out of the Italian Grand Prix after contact with Felipe Messa, whilst Vettel retired in Abu Dhabi after an unexplained puncture on the first lap caused too much damage to his car. The RB7 took victory in Malaysia, Turkey, Spain, Monaco, Valencia, Belgium, Italy, Singapore, Korea, India and Brazil and only once failed to finish on the podium, as Webber finish fourth after Vettel’s retirement. The Drivers’ Championship was sealed after the fifteenth race in Japan and the Constructors’ title followed a week later in Korea.

Overall, the RB7 won twelve races, earned another fifteen podiums, eighteen pole positions and scored 650 points, winning both the Constructors’ and the Drivers’ Championships by a considerable margin.

Please note that our 1:4 scale steering wheels do not come with moving parts.

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Red Bull Racing’s entry for the 2012 season, the RB8 was driven by then two-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber, with former Scuderia Toro Rosso driver Sébastien Buemi as test driver. Designed by Adrian Newey, the RB8 was the fourth evolution of a concept started with the RB5 in 2009. It was a rather complex evolution, however, as 2012 regulations specified a particular area where the exhausts could exit, requiring the team to remove the blown diffuser, a core part of the RB7’s design. Red Bull had pioneered the previous exhaust layout as no other team had and the change in regulations hit them harder than any other team.

The RB8 started the season poorly and lacked a solid balance, which was likely to due to Red Bull having to drop their work into an exhaust redirection system which was quite far along in the design process, though no parts were yet produced. Regulations only initially restricted exhaust-influenced bodywork ahead of the rear axle but the FIA closed that loophole after Mercedes AMG brought their attention to it. The legality of the RB8 would become an ongoing theme as the 2012 season progressed, and Red Bull had to make further changes at the Canadian Grand Prix after the RB8’s floor was outlawed. The team were forced to alter the engine-mapping of its Renault power units after the Hungarian Grand Prix after the FIA moved to close another loophole in the regulations.

Despite introducing improvements, the car still wasn't the fastest of the field and recorded just three wins and three further podiums in the first 13 races, including their first double retirement since Korea in 2010 at the Italian Grand Prix. This was a pale display compared to the dominance of RB7 the year before, though consistent points scoring still had Red Bull 29 points clear in the Constructors’ Championship. At Singapore however, Red Bull brought in an update that would prove decisive. The team’s technical dominance was exhibited through a new nose, improved wings and a double DRS system and Vettel subsequently recorded four straight victories and two podiums, earning Red Bull the Constructors’ title at the penultimate race in the US. In the final race in Brazil, Vettel had to finish fourth or above to claim the Drivers’ trophy but only managed sixth position. Fortunately for him, his title rival Fernando Alonso failed to win the race, handing Vettel his third Drivers’ Championship title in a row by a slender margin of three points. Red Bull finished the season with a 60 point gap to second place Ferrari.

Overall, the Red Bull Racing RB8 achieved seven wins, seven further podiums, 460 Constructors’ Championship points, one Drivers’ Championship and one Constructors’ Championship.

This fine 1:4 scale model of the Red Bull RB8 Steering Wheel has been handcrafted and finished in our workshops with the co-operation and assistance of the manufacturer regarding original finishes, materials, archive imagery and drawings. Furthermore, it has undergone detailed scrutiny by both engineering and design teams to ensure complete accuracy of representation.

Please note that our 1:4 scale steering wheels do not come with moving parts.