Having done very well in the previous years with Jordan and Benetton, Michael Schumacher lent himself to face the 1994 season with the precise objective of winning several races. The car was competitive but probably no one thought it would be able to challenge Senna with Williams-Renault. The championship, however, took the turn we all know, with Senna’s accident at Imola. Schumacher was in a position to fight for the world title against Damon Hill behind the wheel of Williams. The title was decided at the last race in Australia, where Schumacher, with a questionable maneuvre, took Hill out and won his first world championship with only one point ahead of Hill.
The Finnish Lehto, who had debuted in F.1 in 1989, raced some GPs in the 1994 season with Benetton, as Schumacher's second. In Monaco, Lehto qualified 17th and finished in 7th place. With Benetton he finished 6th in Canada, scoring his only world championship point of the season. Lehto then raced the final two GPs of 1994 with Sauber-Mercedes.
In the history of static modeling, Spark has truly revolutionized the market. The brand was created by Hugues Ripert, whose father André had been one of the main contenders of the artisanal modeling scene in the 70s and 80s. After working for Vitesse, Quartzo and Ixo, Ripert jr did not choose the diecast technique but opted for resin, with production in China but development and conception strictly in the European tradition. In practice the idea was to offer special models built in small series (what were later called "resincast"). The first Sparks were released in 2000, with a quality-price ratio unapproachable for most industrial and artisanal producers. Today Spark continues to churn out dozens of new products a year, having also expanded its production to other scales, such as 1:18 but also 1:64. There are numerous numbered and limited series for the various national distributors and for private customers such as teams, sponsors, drivers and so on.