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or those of you reading who have seen our previous issues, we have featured an Amalgam 1:8 model in each of our issues 1,2 & 3 already covering Ferrari, McLaren and Bugatti. For this issue we are writing about something a bit different from Amalgam, their 1:4 scale racing steering wheels. The detail in these highly collectable models is exceptional as you would expect from the world’s leading model maker, and for this specific issue we have concentrated on their Ferrari SF90 Steering Wheel.
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Scuderia Ferrari’s contender for the 2019 Formula One World Championship, the Ferrari SF90 is named to celebrate the marque’s 90th anniversary. Driven by four-time World Champion Sebastian Vettel and his new teammate for 2019, Charles Leclerc, the SF90 is the sixty fifth single-seater to be built by Ferrari to compete in the Formula One World Championship and the sixth built for the hybrid era. Vettel, famous for giving his cars female names, named his car ‘Lina’. The SF90 is powered by a 1600cc V6 engine that produces over 1000 horsepower to shift its 743kg weight.
To cater for the 2019 season regulations, Ferrari produced a rather radical front wing design, that tapered downwards from the middle towards the endplates of the wing, which was designed to encourage the majority of the air flow to be felt on the middle of the wing and flow within the front tyres, making the car more predictable with its downforce levels but give less downforce overall. After an impressive pre-season testing programme, in which the car showed very strong outright pace, the car attempted to take the fight to the everdominant Mercedes and would probably
