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The Chris Craft / David Weir 512M has an official release date of today - Friday 15 July - with the cars already arriving with retailers and distributors. I expect this car to fly off the shelves.

To coincide with the release of the first 512M, Slot.it have unveiled the prototype of a second model - the Penske Ferrari that finished third in the 1971 Daytona 24 hours...

   

This is most definitely a pre-race version... the pole-sitting 512M of Mark Donohue and David Hobbs finished the race held together with duct tape...

   

This CA52b Ferrari 512M 24h Daytona 1971 is scheduled for release in the final quarter of 2022.

Slot.it have certainly started this new model series with two cracking liveries. And there are more to come - Maurizio hinting that the Escudería Montjuïch 512M is "almost a sure thing" when I chatted to him a couple of months ago. The yellow Montjuïch car was also a converted 512S and was raced widely in 1971 by the Spanish privateers, most notably to second place at the Tour de France Auto.