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Raceland Gold Edition made by Spark. Exclusive model in special packaging. Comes with premium acrylic display cover.
Just like the young Austrian ladies are introduced to high society as debutantes at the Vienna Opera Ball, mentor Niki Lauda chose his Austrian home Grand Prix to present his young protégé Gerhard Berger in Formula 1. With additional local sponsorship, the Tyrolean from Wörgl was on a Formula 1 grid at the Österreichring for the very first time just a few days before his 25th birthday. 20th after qualifying in an ATS was not bad: on his left Swiss Marc Surer in the Arrows, behind him compatriot Jo Gartner in the Osella and there was a gap three rows ahead of him: teammate Manfred Winkelhock had broken down during warm-up with gearbox damage and was unable to compete due to the lack of a spare gearbox.
Team boss Günter Schmid had already had great difficulty keeping one ATS D7 running. Winkelhock was therefore not at all happy about the first-time entry of a second car and promptly became the victim of this decision. Gerhard Berger did everything right on his debut because he did not damage the car. Despite a broken gearbox shortly before the end of the race, he was classified twelfth. For the record crowd at the Österreichring this was just a bonus because their idol Niki Lauda, the later 1984 World Champion, stood at the top of the podium. For Berger, it was the successful start to a long Formula 1 career that only ended in 1997 after 210 Grand Prix races. For ATS, however, the end of the 1984 season marked the end of the team.
