This is the Ferrari 640, otherwise known as the F189, (yet again made by Tamiya) as seen at the 1989 Portuguese Grand Prix.
Driven by Nigel Mansell and Austrian Gerhard Berger. Ferrari won 3 races that year with Mansell getting 2(Brazil, Hungary), Bergers only win was at Portugal(although ive done the model as Mansells car).
Although the car was quite innovative being the first car to use a Semi-Auto gearbox, it was plagued with unreliability. Of the 30 races the 640 started it finished only 9 with 19 Retirements(7 Mansell, 12 Berger) and 2 disqualifications for Mansell. In the races it did finish it never finished below 3rd place.
Despite the problems Mansell came 4th in the WDC and Ferrari came 3rd in the Constructors.
A pretty straight forward model with one major gripe, the body shell doesnt quite line up with the monocoque around the nose, and you can easily see this in the photos. There was no way around this as moving the red side panels on the monocoque up higher to match the body wouldve only left a gap on the part surrounding the front suspension, so im putting it down to a design fault on Tamiyas part :).
Not many decals on this car, but the Marlboro logos with the drivers name on didnt have the Marlboro wording, just a white space so using some decal paper i printed my own "Marlboro" words and added them. I think it looks much better with them on.
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