The Aston Martin team is actually the former Racing Point, which itself was Force India. The British team based in Silverstone has for 2021 developed the old Racing Point RP20, which has become the Aston Martin AMR21. In turn, the RP20 was a 2019 Mercedes. The AMR21 will feature the Mercedes M12 EQ Power engine. The drivers are Sebastian Vettel, arriving from Ferrari, and Lance Stroll, already in force at Racing Point in 2020.
The Danhausen company of Aachen, Germany, began producing its own series of handcrafted 1:43 models under the names Metal 43, Plumbies, SD Models and Minichamps in 1974. Between 1976 and 1990, AMR produced over 70 different Minichamps models for Danhausen. The mass production of highly detailed die-cast model cars, marketed under the name Minichamps, began in China in 1990 and marked a real revolution in the field of model making, with high quality products at extremely competitive prices. Minichamps models are developed in Germany, but production and assembly takes place in the Far East. In less than ten years Minichamps practically became the reference in the diecast sector. In 2004 the first resin miniatures were introduced. Over the years other scales have been developed significantly, including 1:18. The Maxichamps range, which includes affordable reissues of older Minichamps items, was introduced in 2016.