I can't believe it's actually here...

What's your favorite F1 team?

The "brake light" is actually an indicator for the ERS system. If the light is blinking, that means the driver is harvesting energy, no light means that they are deploying the energy! They also stay on for wet races, or low visibility. Cool little bit to see when you are watching the broadcasts!!

Honestly for $250K thats not a bad deal. Just think about the millions people pay for paintings/ sculptures. To have something like this in a garage would be amazing

The Number 77 on the car belongs to Valtteri Bottas, who finished the 2022 season in 10th place. His best result that year was P5 at the Imola GP (one of two races held in Italy that season) Valtteri has 10 race wins overall (all with Mercedes) and 67 podiums ( 9x Williams / 58x Mercedes) which is one podium short of the most podiums without a championship-win. Bottas best results in the drivers standings is 2nd (2019 / 2020). BTW: @4:10 - It is not a brake light, but has several functions: In wet conditions it increases visibility and under dry conditions it flashes when the ERS system is used (to recharge the battery) and also in the pit lane to increase the visibility of the vehicle.

To clarify, the show car isn't based on the CAD of the actual cars themselves, but of a default FIA show car that's built to the regulations, but isn't representative of what the teams are actually running. There are too many secrets on each car to do that.

Building this thing into a sim racing rig would be insame… hope someone does it

We're so happy you enjoyed unboxing this - we loved it too! 🏎

"Only missing the engine itself" and the computers, the electronics, the gearbox, the fire extinguishers, the batteries, the fluids, the brakes etc etc

Saw this car at the auto show in Toronto this year! It blew my mind how much bigger it was in person, what a fine piece of engineering.

2:05 That's a €50,000 fine right there

1:34 So much details even down to the fly in the radiator 🪰

I love Alfa Romea it's sad to see them struggle. But $250,000 sounds reasonable for a replica made by the team. It has great potential for an amazing sim.

Ultimate unboxing experience! Wow! I can’t wait to do this one day, in Germany 🇩🇪

Pricey. I remember back in the day, you could buy retired F1 cars for less than this static display. Everything going price crazy.

I don't recall many others who get access to do such videos, Lew. Great job 👏🏼😊

I definitely wasn't expecting this crossover

Incoming hefty fine for touching that rear wing 😂 🏎️🏁

The show car has more differences from the real car rather than just the lack of engine. The show car body/aero is wildly different. The general shape is the same but if you look at the actual details it is a completely different car.

I still to this day like the McLaren livery from back around 2000 more than any other livery I've seen in F1, might be because two of my favourite drivers of all time both drove for Mclaren ion that era, Hakkinen and Raikkonen (yes I am finnish, why you ask? 😅) But even without that fact, I just think those cars looked SO GOOD!

when you mentioned the paint and competition losing personality, its already happened sorta. the weight saving was so severe this years (2023) most cars got rid of paint to save it. thus more exposed carbon on most of the cars this year.