The 1968 Formula 1 season was Jacky Ickx's first with Scuderia Ferrari, and it proved decisive: the Belgian driver scored Ferrari's sole victory of the year at the French Grand Prix, finishing fourth in the Drivers' Championship with 27 points. This 1:18 scale model captures one specific chapter of that season — Round 4 at Circuit Zandvoort, 23 June 1968 — when Ickx took the wheel of car number 10.
The Ferrari 312 F1: Three Litres, Twelve Cylinders
Introduced for the 3-litre formula that came into force in 1966, the Ferrari 312 F1 remained Ferrari's front-line Grand Prix weapon through 1969. The designation itself encodes the architecture: 3-litre, 12-cylinder — in this case a naturally aspirated 60° V12 producing approximately 390–410 bhp depending on seasonal specification. The spaceframe chassis employed coil-spring suspension, and for 1968 Ferrari developed revised aerodynamics including a high rear wing that appeared mid-season. Ickx shared the team that year with Chris Amon.
Round 4, Zandvoort: Ickx and the Number 10
The 1968 Dutch Grand Prix was held at Circuit Park Zandvoort on 23 June 1968. Jackie Stewart took victory in the Matra MS10 Ford, while Ickx, starting in car number 10 in Rosso Corsa with the yellow prancing-horse shield on the nose and white race number on a yellow background, retired before the finish. The retirement at Zandvoort made his fourth-place championship standing at year's end all the more hard-fought, built largely on consistent results at other rounds and that solitary win at Reims.
Tecnomodel's Resin 1:18 Scale Model
Tecnomodel is an Italian manufacturer with a focused specialism in high-detail resin models at 1:18 and 1:43, with a particular concentration on historically significant Ferrari and Formula 1 subjects. This piece is built in resin — a material that allows fine surface definition not easily achieved in diecast — and replicates the Zandvoort race specification of the 312 F1 in the Rosso Corsa livery worn by car number 10. A Jacky Ickx driver figure is included, recreating the full cockpit scene in period overalls and helmet — a detail that sets open-wheel models of this era apart from later, figure-free releases.
