Model Background

Ferrari F1 Transporter · 2007

A Formula One team does not arrive at a circuit with two cars and a toolbox. Agora puts Scuderia Ferrari's load at almost 600 tonnes of equipment a season, moved by a fleet of eighteen trucks: eight for hospitality, four for workshop equipment, three for telemetry, and the rest for the pit lane, catering and the Paddock Club. The truck this kit models is the one at the centre of it, the transporter that carried the race cars themselves.

For 2007 that was an Iveco Stralis 480 pulling a three-axle trailer in the team's red livery. The Stralis was Iveco's long-haul flagship, built from 2002 to 2021, and when it was introduced it was the first heavy truck to come with an automated gearbox as standard. Agora gives it the EuroTronic automated gearbox that every Stralis carried.

What it carried that year was the F2007, driven by Kimi Räikkönen as number 6 and Felipe Massa as number 5. Between them they won nine races and took nine poles. Ferrari clinched the constructors' title at the Belgian Grand Prix, its first since 2004, helped by McLaren's exclusion from the constructors' championship after it was found to have used Ferrari's confidential technical information. The drivers' title went to the last race, in Brazil: Räikkönen started it third in the standings, won it, and finished on 110 points to the 109 of Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso. The F2007 remains the last Ferrari to win the drivers' title.

Iveco still moves the team. In 2024 it described a partnership of more than twenty years, and the team's newer trucks are its successor to the Stralis, the S-Way: two delivered in April 2023 and fifteen more, with a Daily van, in October 2024.

Agora's kit builds the 2007 truck at 1:18 from about 1,350 pre-painted parts, with the body and chassis in zamak metal. Finished, it is 920 mm long and weighs about 9 kg. It comes with two F2007s, Räikkönen's and Massa's, at 81 parts each. The engine can be seen behind the front grille, the cab is trimmed inside down to its controls and roof horn, the trailer opens onto a lit loading area with a lift for positioning the cars, the side lockers slide open, and there are sound and lighting effects. It arrives as 12 packs, one a month.

Sources
Agora Models (US) — Ferrari F1 Transporter product page — 1:18, Iveco Stralis 480 tractor and three-axle trailer in 2007 Scuderia Ferrari livery, 480 hp, EuroTronic gearbox, eighteen-truck fleet and 600 tonnes with the breakdown by role, two F2007s (Massa and Räikkönen) of 81 parts each, about 1,350 parts, zamak body and chassis, pre-painted, 920 mm and about 9 kg, engine behind the grille, cab detail and roof horn, opening lit loading area with lift, sliding side lockers, sound and light, 12 monthly packs
Wikipedia — Iveco Stralis — built 2002 to 2021, first heavy truck with an automated gearbox as standard, EuroTronic gearbox on all models, succeeded by the S-Way
Wikipedia — Ferrari F2007 — drivers and numbers, nine wins and nine poles, first constructors' title since 2004, last Ferrari to win the drivers' title
Wikipedia — 2007 Formula One World Championship — Räikkönen's one-point title at the Brazilian finale (110 to 109 for Hamilton and Alonso), constructors' title clinched in Belgium, McLaren's exclusion
IVECO — Press release, 29 October 2024 — fifteen S-Way trucks and a Daily delivered to Scuderia Ferrari HP, partnership of over twenty years
Romana Diesel (IVECO dealer) — Two S-Way trucks delivered to Scuderia Ferrari at Fiorano, 20 April 2023