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2023 – Top F1 trading card sales

As collectors look forward to the new f1 trading card sets to be released in 2024, let’s take a quick look back at some high price F1 trading card sales in 2023 (as expected Max and Lewis Topps Chrome cards dominate). For...
 
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Trading card news: Topps pre-sale offers preview of Topps Chrome F1 2023

Happy New Year to all readers! For card collectors eagerly waiting for Topps 2023 Chrome Formula 1 collection, Topps’ US site a few days ago opened a pre-sale for 2023 Chrome hobby boxes and hobby box cases for shipping b...

 
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Investing in the next F1 rookie card (a look at current F1 & F2 rookie Topps F1 trading card sales…)

Trading card collectors know that just like world champion titles, Lewis and Max trading cards currently dominate the higher value secondary market sales. However, savvy collectors are always on the lookout for speculative rook...
 
Diecast models
 

Diecast Review: Looksmart 1:43 scale Charles Leclerc 2022 Ferrari F1-75

The front running battle between Max and Charles during last weekend’s Las Vegas GP reminded everyone of what 2022 could have been for Ferrari and Charles. As streamlined as the Red Bull RB18 looked last year, the real ey...

 
 
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New book review: Unstoppable The Ultimate Biography of Max Verstappen by Mark Hughes

By chalking up another 2023 race victory in Sao Paulo, Max Verstappen appears to be effortlessly and clinically breaking past F1 records that now move him into the elite class of F1 drivers. Back in June, I reviewed James Gray&...
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Diecast review: Sparky 1:64 scale 2022 Mercedes AMG W13 Lewis Hamilton

With Lewis’ post race disqualification at COTA US Grand Prix last weekend, Mercedes engineers are obviously still trying to master the modern era ground effects F1 chassis. Last month I posted a short review on Spark̵...