- Giuseppe Casagrande and his crew could have their {custom} La Liebre race automobile mission immortalized as a 1:64 Scorching Wheels ® die-cast automobile 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 based mostly 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 will be discovered HERE
EL SEGUNDO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Mattel, Inc (NASDAQ: MAT), a number one world toy and household leisure firm and proprietor of one of the crucial iconic model portfolios on this planet, introduced the 2024 winner of the Scorching Wheels Legends Tour, the world’s largest touring automobile present, throughout the digital World Grand Finale held on November 16. After taking house the highest spot throughout the 2024 Chilean tour cease, a home-built race automobile, nicknamed La Liebre, secured the worldwide victory and will probably be inducted into the Scorching Wheels Storage of Legends. The Scorching Wheels design crew will now rework the life-sized automobile right into a die-cast automobile 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 (Picture: Enterprise Wire)
Hosted by motorsports ambassador Jarod DeAnda, this 12 months’s Scorching Wheels Legends Tour World 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 automobile 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 automobile customizer
- Scorching Wheels Design Group
In 2013, Giuseppe Casagrande and Maurizio Moschini co-founded Vehicles and Espresso Chile as a nonprofit group to develop the automobile group and tradition in Chile. The La Liebre mission started as a way of selling their group and interesting 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 velocity transmission with straight reduce gears. The unique chassis was closely modified by Baufer Storage and at the moment consists of a tubular body and roll cage. The La Liebre weighs underneath 2,000-pounds, due to the tube chassis and {custom} fiberglass physique that was developed to maximise aerodynamics. A mix of classic model and fashionable efficiency, designed for pure velocity, the La Liebre impressed and impressed the judges not solely with its appears to be like however its position within the Chilean automotive group.
The Vehicles and Espresso Chile crew behind La Liebre contains: 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, nonetheless, the mission behind the La Liebre constructed by Vehicles & Espresso Chile was emblematic of what the tour is all about, stated Ted Wu, senior vice chairman and world head of design, automobiles and constructing units at Mattel (NASDAQ:). Not solely is it an especially spectacular construct, nevertheless it was created to assist develop the automobile group in Chile and encourage others to take part. That is what makes this automobile, and the crew behind it, deserving of the win and entry into the Scorching Wheels Storage of Legends.
Celebrating automobile builders and fanatics world wide of their drive to be legendary, the 2024 Scorching Wheels Legends Tour traveled by means of 13 international locations with 11 regional stops in the USA. New Tour stops for 2024 included visits to Colombia and the United Arab Emirates. The Scorching Wheels crew and native automotive personalities evaluated greater than 5,000 automobile entries with thousands and 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 sequence of native Walmart (NYSE:) occasions to the world’s largest touring automobile present, bringing in builders and automotive followers by means of 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 in every of 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 one of the crucial iconic model portfolios on this planet. We interact customers and followers by means of our franchise manufacturers, together with Barbie ®, Scorching Wheels ®, Fisher-Worth ®, American Woman ®, Thomas & Mates™, UNO ®, Masters of the Universe ®, Matchbox ®, Monster Excessive ®, MEGA ® and Polly Pocket ®, in addition to different standard properties that we personal or license in partnership with world leisure corporations. 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 corporations. Since its founding in 1945, Mattel is proud to be a trusted companion in empowering generations to discover the surprise of childhood and attain their full potential. Go to us at mattel.com.
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