- Giuseppe Casagrande and his group may have their {custom} La Liebre race automotive undertaking immortalized as a 1:64 Scorching Wheels ® die-cast automotive bought world wide
- Greater than 5,000 automobiles from 13 international locations competed within the 2024 Scorching Wheels™ Legends Tour introduced by Mobil 1
- The 1968 {custom} construct primarily based on a Baufer modified Ford (NYSE:) Falcon chassis is the seventh Scorching Wheels Legends Tour winner to be inducted into the Storage of Legends™ and recreated as a Scorching Wheels die-cast
- Photographs of the 2024 Scorching Wheels Legends Tour winner may be discovered HERE
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mattel, Inc (NASDAQ: MAT), a number one world toy and household leisure firm and proprietor of some of the iconic model portfolios on the earth, introduced the 2024 winner of the Scorching Wheels Legends Tour, the world’s largest touring automotive present, throughout the digital International Grand Finale held on November 16. After taking dwelling the highest spot throughout the 2024 Chilean tour cease, a home-built race automotive, nicknamed La Liebre, secured the worldwide victory and shall be inducted into the Scorching Wheels Storage of Legends. The Scorching Wheels design group will now rework the life-sized automotive right into a die-cast automotive for collectors and followers to take pleasure in in 1:64 scale.
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La Liebre on the Chile cease of the 2024 Scorching Wheels Legends Tour (Photograph: Business Wire)
Hosted by motorsports ambassador Jarod DeAnda, this 12 months’s Scorching Wheels Legends Tour International Grand Finale showcased 10 unimaginable builds from world wide. Tasked with selecting the entry that finest represents authenticity, creativity and storage spirit, the panel of judges featured:
- Jay Leno, TV host and automotive fanatic
- Dalal Elsheikh, automotive expertise designer
- Larry Chen, Famend automotive photographer
- Gabriel Fluffy Iglesias, actor and comic
- Toni Breidinger, NASCAR driver
- Juca Viapri, Mexican automotive influencer and automotive customizer
- Scorching Wheels Design Workforce
In 2013, Giuseppe Casagrande and Maurizio Moschini co-founded Vehicles and Espresso Chile as a nonprofit group to develop the automotive group and tradition in Chile. The La Liebre undertaking started as a way of selling their group and fascinating native automotive fanatics. After buying the Falcon, a custom-built Chevrolet 350 motor producing 600 horsepower was put in and mated to a Saenz 910 5 pace transmission with straight minimize gears. The unique chassis was closely modified by Baufer Storage and presently consists of a tubular body and roll cage. The La Liebre weighs underneath 2,000-pounds, because of the tube chassis and {custom} fiberglass physique that was developed to maximise aerodynamics. A mix of classic model and fashionable efficiency, designed for pure pace, the La Liebre impressed and impressed the judges not solely with its seems however its position within the Chilean automotive group.
The Vehicles and Espresso Chile group behind La Liebre consists of: Giuseppe Casagrade, Maurizio Moschini, Pablo Olmos, Omar Aguilar, Nicolás Orellana, and Jose Ignacio Barra.
This 12 months’s Scorching Wheels Legends Tour introduced out so many unimaginable builds, making it tough to pick out only one, nevertheless, the mission behind the La Liebre constructed by Vehicles & Espresso Chile was emblematic of what the tour is all about, mentioned Ted Wu, senior vp and world head of design, automobiles and constructing units at Mattel (NASDAQ:). Not solely is it a particularly spectacular construct, nevertheless it was created to assist develop the automotive group in Chile and encourage others to take part. That is what makes this automobile, and the group behind it, deserving of the win and entry into the Scorching Wheels Storage of Legends.
Celebrating automotive builders and fanatics world wide of their drive to be legendary, the 2024 Scorching Wheels Legends Tour traveled via 13 international locations with 11 regional stops in the US. New Tour stops for 2024 included visits to Colombia and the United Arab Emirates. The Scorching Wheels group and native automotive personalities evaluated greater than 5,000 automobile entries with hundreds of thousands of occasion attendees world wide.
Since its launch in 2018 to commemorate the fiftieth Anniversary of Scorching Wheels, the Scorching Wheels Legends Tour introduced by Mobil 1 has grown from an U.S.-based collection of native Walmart (NYSE:) occasions to the world’s largest touring automotive present, bringing in builders and automotive followers via each digital and dwell occasions. Earlier champions embrace the inaugural 2018-winning 2JetZ™, 2019-winning THE NASH™, 2020-winning 1970 Pontiac ® Firebird™, 2021-winning 1969 Volvo (OTC:) P1800 Gasser, 2022-winning Texas Toot, an ultra-custom 1992 Autozam Scrum micro truck and final 12 months’s champion, a one among a form 1990 Mazda MX-5 roadster nicknamed “Chimera.
To study extra in regards to the Scorching Wheels Legends Tour, go to www.HotWheels.com/Legends.
About Mattel
Mattel is a number one world toy and household leisure firm and proprietor of some of the iconic model portfolios on the earth. We have interaction shoppers and followers via our franchise manufacturers, together with Barbie ®, Scorching Wheels ®, Fisher-Value ®, American Woman ®, Thomas & Buddies™, UNO ®, Masters of the Universe ®, Matchbox ®, Monster Excessive ®, MEGA ® and Polly Pocket ®, in addition to different fashionable properties that we personal or license in partnership with world leisure firms. Our choices embrace toys, content material, shopper merchandise, digital and dwell experiences. Our merchandise are bought in collaboration with the world’s main retail and ecommerce firms. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted accomplice in empowering generations to discover the surprise of childhood and attain their full potential. Go to us at mattel.com.
About Mobil 1
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