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A Lancia Delta sporting the livery shown on the San Remo rally edition of 1989, at Speed Champions scale!
There are several elements that make this car and its livery unique and special:
- The Lancia Delta won many rallies, drivers and manufacturers World Rally Championships (WRC). But only once a Delta was painted with a Red background during a competition: in the 1989 San Remo edition.
- This special livery was chosen to inaugurate the HF Integrale 16V, an evolution of the succesful HF Integrale that was upgraded with a more powerful motor than the previous 8V. The rossa corsa sported was the color assigned in the early days of the FIA to cars belonging to Italian scuderias participating in motorsports.
- The San Remo, or Italian rally, is not just one more rally. Each one of the WRC rallies are special and unique, but there are a few more peculiar ones: the iced road Swedish rally, the almost a raid Safari rally in Kenya, the incredibly fast 1000 Lakes rally of Finland or the San Remo, that on those years was run on mixed surface, tarmac and gravel, what make winning the San Remo always a serious challenge. And it was also at Lancia's backyard, 200 km away from Torino's headquarters.
- Driven by the Italian defending WRC champions Biasion and Siviero, this Italian car was able to win on its very first race, and by winning it, it claimed that year's Driver's and Constructor's championship what boosted its popularity among the already beefed up Lancia Delta fan base that stills exists today, and contributed further to the association of Italy with winning cars: Ferrari in the circuits, Lancia on the rallies, all under the Fiat group umbrella. In fact Biasion and Siviero were the first Italian champions in a motor sports since Alberto Ascari in the middle 50's on Formula 1.
- Most rally liveries are hard to replicate at this scale, but this one in particular, which is more squared than striped, makes the creation closer to the actual car through brick and tiles, with little need for stickers. The proposal does not sport any sticker, although it could benefit of a couple of them with the Lancia logo, either sticked or printed. Currently only 2 printed parts: the 2x2 tiles with a "1" at both sides, that identify the car as the one driven by the 1988 champion.
The overall design shown does not try to create a exact replica of that car, but a car that is recognisable as a Lancia Delta while sporting the very famous and exclusive red livery. In fact, the external design is a bit more biased towards the HF Integrale EVO (Evoluzione), that appeared in 1991 and that was the next evolution of the one that won the 1989 San Remo, an HF Integrale 16V. The livery is neither a exact replica, but a fair enough approximation that clearly evocates the car.
The car features:
- A front engine, hanging before the front axle, with turbocharger and its air duct, and a rear exhaust
- A detailed and packed interior, with a cabin for 2 minifigures and driving elements, a roll cage, a spare wheel, a fuel tank and a fire extinguisher, and other elements mandatory by the FIA/WRC regulation.
- An undercar 4WD transmission, the English name for the Italian "Integrale" system that gives name to the car.
- A logo on the roof, that tries to represent Lancia's logo, same as on the real car, that could be replaced with printed part or stickers. Another printed part or sticker with the same logo could be placed in the bonnet between the 4 air exhaust grills to make it shine. The proposal is intentionally sticker-less.
- Internally, the car proposed is not built around a "car-base" plate. The inner "structure" is built using plates that simulate beams. That makes the part count higher (a bit more than 500 parts including the add-on elements later described) but certainly can be optimized to under 450 if a "car-base" part is used. One of the aims of the design is to deliver a "real" car construction experience to the builder, within the limits of an 8 stud wide an non-Technic car.
- Skirts in the front and the rear to prevent damages to the car underframe and creating projectiles to the spectators.
The basic car can also sport a few more optional/add-on elements that are usual on a rally:
- A rallylights pod - not optimized to look as an exact replica
- A "turbofan" brake system - that is placed on the wheels to mazimize airflow ingress to the brake disks for cooling purposes
- An aileron - that was not sported as such by the 16V car, only later by the EVOs, but hey, who does not want to put an aileron?
Can the car be 'painted' in the usual White - or even Yellow as could be seen for instance on the San Marino Rallylegends- instead? Sure, but then the tile distribution proposed is not optimized for those other cases, and in those other cases other sponsors logo are more obvious, while on this version is the Lancia logo, that of the car manufacturer, the one that is more notorious.
I think this will deliver a great LEGO set for the following:
- The Lancia Delta is inmensily popular, but there is not a small 300-500 parts, 8 stud wide, version available at LEGO
- The livery is a unique one within the Lancia Delta universe, and a loved one by the fans. A passionate red one, that enables the creation of a car with a higher focus on its 'engineering', its history and 'sportive' feats than on other elements such as the branding or marketing from this or that other sponsor.
- The livery can be reproduced with sufficient fidelity at this scale without relying heavily on stickers. The minimalistic use of 2 stickers with the Lancia logo on the roof and the bonnet may also identify clearly the origin of the car.
Give your vote to this unique rally champion car as it looked at the peak of its performance!
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