The "Hollywood" liveries - F1 GTR #18R & #11R

[Peloton25]

I started a separate thread as the thread that sparked this one is fairly bogged down with images already. To recap what I wrote:

Originally Posted by Peloton25

GTR #18R was originally the FINA Presentation car, and then raced under one of the Hollywood liveries at the two Brazilian exposition races in Curitiba and Brasilia at the end of the 1996 BPR season with drivers Nelson Piquet and Johnny Cecotto. It won both races and then disappeared. I had long thought that it could be the #39 GTR in the BMW Museum in Germany even though the real #39 FINA GTR was here in the USA appearing at various BMW sponsored events.

Here's a shot of what is commonly referred to as the FINA Presentation car. There are UT/Minichamps versions of this livery available in 3 scales - 1/18th, 1/43rd & 1/87th. This image comes from the box released by them. I know there are other photos from the shoot that produced this image, but I don't have them in my collection unfortunately. Incidentally, I'm not sure why BMW felt the need to have this third FINA GTR unless it was simply for promotional purposes, but this is how it started out life and it never raced under this livery:



It was seen at a few motorshows in 1996 wearing this livery. I have pictures, but the quality is poor. I will give them to F1 Monster for inclusion on the website he is building though, so if you stick around you will see them eventually.

At the end of the 1996 BPR Global GT season, there were two non-championship exposition races held at two tracks in Brazil. The first was a 2 Hour race in Curitiba followed by a second two hour race in Brasilia. There were three F1 GTRs in attendance at the two races - 18R, 11R, and #03R. In both races, the cars finished in the top 3 positions in the order I listed them.

GTR #03R wore it's usual red/white livery and WEST sponsorship logos, but the other two GTRs wore special "Hollywood" liveries, that were each slightly different. You can see all three cars in this shot from the Curitiba race.



#18R had a few visual changes - different sponsor decals obviously, and it lost most of it's blue graphics. Also the flag detail on the rear quarters was changed from blue to grey. #11R looked quite a bit different as the upper half of the car which had been orange throughout most of the 1996 season was now white, and at least at the Curitiba race the car had added touches of green on the fenders in first shot, but absent in the others. Here's a set of 3 photos of #18R followed by the only decent ones of #11R in its Hollywood livery.

18R:






#11R:




Autobarn Models has made a 1/43rd scale diecast of each of the Hollywood liveried cars as part of their collection. Here's a shot of each one:





>8^)
ER

[BMW.WilliamsF1Team]

Here are the two I have, the second one you already have in a larger version, though.





Thanks for the pictures!

[Monty Kernow]

18R raced once more at Brasilia in the 1997 Brazilian 1000 miles, again winning with drivers Piquet/Cecotto/Soper.