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LEGO Editions McLaren Mastercard F1 Team Helmets; 43017 Oscar Piastri & 43023 Lando Norris | Set Preview

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McLaren are celebrating their 1,000th Formula 1 Grand Prix, which is quite a milestone. In fact only Scuderia Ferrari have entered more. And what better way to celebrate than by recolouring your sponsors and releasing the results as LEGO sets! Thus for June 2026, here are the brand new LEGO Editions McLaren Mastercard F1 Team 43017 Oscar Piastri & 43023 Lando Norris Helmets.

Like the Ferrari helmet sets that preceded them, 43017 and 43023 recreate the drivers’ helmet designs (in this case unique for McLaren’s 1,000th race) from just under 800 parts apiece, with a stand, plaque and a bespoke minifigure included too.

Both feature McLaren’s signature papaya colouring, with Piastri’s adding blue stripes, whilst Norris wears the champion’s ‘No.1’ and looks to have his brain on the outside. Good thing Lance Stroll doesn’t use a similar design or there’d be nothing there to see.

Both sets are aimed at ages 14+, cost around $89.99 / €89.99 / £79.99, and are available now.

Technic 42240 Aston Martin Aramco AMR25 F1 Car | Set Preview

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LEGO’s extensive partnership with Formula 1 has just added another set the grid! This is the brand new 1,547-piece LEGO Technic 42240 Aston Martin Aramco AMR25 F1 Car.

Despite us currently being a third of the way through the 2026 Formula 1 season, 42240 recreates last year’s Aston Martin mid-field competitor (rather than their disastrous 2026 effort) – as piloted by one of the world’s greatest F1 drivers. And Lance Stroll.

Joining the previously revealed championship-winning 42228 McLaren MCL39 F1 Car at the top of the Formula 1 line-up, 42240 matches 42228’s scale (1:8) and technical features, with steering and suspension, a V6 engine with a brick-built ‘electric’ motor, working DRS, and a miserably curtailed two-speed gearbox.

Authentic sponsor decals add accuracy to the AMR25’s appearance, although the standard green parts (which don’t match the real car’s unique hue) and equal-width tyres front and rear do not.

On sale from July 1st, aimed at ages 18+, and expected to cost an enormous $230 / £200 / €230, the 42240 Aston Martin Aramco AMR25 feels like a bit of a rehash, carrying the same limitations as the McLaren MCL39 that preceded it, only being six months late and without that set’s title-winning kudos. Which we suppose means that 42240 does share one attribute with Aston Martin’s current Formula 1 car; it’s pointless.

Winning Horse

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Modern Formula 1 cars last just one season. But back in the 1970s Scuderia Ferrari created a car that lasted for six. And it won four of them, making it the most successful design in Formula 1 history.

First competing in 1975, the Ferrari 312T featured a tubular steel spaceframe, a transverse 3 litre flat-12 making around 500bhp, and excellent reliability. The version we have here today is the T4 variant, featuring aerodynamic modifications to take the Constructor’s World Championship back from Lotus, whose ‘ground effect’ design ended the 312T’s winning streak in 1978.

It worked too, returning the Constructor’s title to Ferrari and giving Jody Scheckter the Driver’s Championship. This fabulous recreation of the 312 T4 comes from Andre Pinto of Flickr, and captures Scheckter‘s title-winning car in spectacular detail.

Custom chromed pieces, authentic replica decals, and stunning internals make Andre’s Ferrari 312T one of the finest vintage Formula 1 cars we’ve published yet, and you can find all the images at his ‘Ferrari 312 T4’ album via the link above.

Marlboro Men

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We’re heading back to the turn of the decade today. No the one before that. And the one before that. Yes it’s the late ‘80s, when greed was good and cigarettes were cool.

Cue this glorious pair of classic Formula 1 cars, each made by TLCB Master MOCer Carl Greatrix and each sponsored by the world’s favourite cancer sticks.

Featuring superb custom decals and 3D-printed wheels, Carl has perfectly replicated the McLaren Honda MP4/4 that dominated the 1988 season (winning fifteen of the sixteen races), and the V12-powered Ferrari 641 that came second in the 1990 F1 Championship.

Wonderful detailing abounds and there’s much more to see of both the McLaren and Ferrari on Flickr. Buy a forty-pack of Marlboros via the links above.

LEGO Editions Scuderia Ferrari HP Helmets; 43014 Charles Leclerc & 43022 Lewis Hamilton | Set Preview

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We’re just a few days away from the first race of the 2026 Formula 1 World Championship, with the biggest change to the regulations in over a decade. Cue breakdowns, hugely variable pace, and much team principal emotion. And also two brand new LEGO sets, along with a whole new theme line, because these are the LEGO Editions 43104 Scuderia Ferrari HP Charles Leclerc Helmet and LEGO Editions 43022 Scuderia Ferrari HP Lewis Hamilton Helmet!

Constructed from almost 900 pieces each, the two new sets replicate the 2026 Scuderia Ferrari drivers’ headwear via some rather intricate techniques, even more stickers, and huge new visor parts that Lego spaceship builders are likely already making plans for.

The sets also include mini-figure versions of Leclerc and Hamilton for the first time, including accurate race suits and Leclerc’s signature messy hair / Hamilton’s hair plugs, plus a brick-built stand for display.

Expected to cost  $89.99 / €89.99  / £79.99, both 43014 and 43022 are aimed at ages 14+ and are available to pre-order now.

Technic 42228 McLaren MCL39 F1 Car | Set Preview

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TLCB have just reviewed a championship-winning Formula 1 car, and now we have another! This is the brand new LEGO Technic 42228 McLaren MCL39 F1 Car.

Like the Williams-Renault FW14B a quarter-century before it, the McLaren MCL39 won both the Constructors and Drivers World Championships (making Lando Norris a world champion), and with LEGO’s longstanding relationship with the British car maker and its race team, the arrival of 42228 was almost to be expected.

At 1:8 scale and with 1,675 pieces, 42228 is a hefty Technic set, with a price-tag to match, costing £189.99 / $229.99 / €209.99 when it arrives on March 1st ’26. For that sizeable outlay buyers will get working steering and pushrod suspension, a V6 engine and two-speed (boo) gearbox under a removable engine cover, and a functional drag-reduction-system (DRS) on the rear wing linked to the transmission’s top (aka ‘only other’) gear.

You also get a seriously large amount of stickers to recreate McLaren’s 2025 sponsors (even the dodgy crypto-currency ones), but not – and unlike the aforementioned Icons 10353 Williams FW14B set – staggered width tyres. Again. Come on LEGO, this is a $220 set.

Still, we suspect 42228 will be a hugely successful Technic set when it lands later this year, and further cements LEGO’s relationship with the pinnacle of motorsport and – for 2025 at least – the team at the top of it. Even with a two-speed gearbox and chronically lazy tyre sizing.

 

Space Race

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The mid-’90s were a high watermark for Renault. Their Espace multi-purpose-vehicle was a smash hit, creating an entirely new class of car in Europe that other manufacturers scrambled to copy, whilst on track their V10 Formula 1 engine was winning absolutely everything with Williams and Benetton. And then in 1995, in moment of utter genius, they decided to merge the two…

The result was the Renault Espace F1, a one-off carbon-fibre minivan with a mid-mounted 800bhp V10 F1 engine, a top speed of nearly 200mph, and publicity other manufacturers could only dream of.

This fantastic recreation of Renault’s unhinged MPV is the work of Flickr’s Sergio Batista, and features replica decals, 3D-printed wheels, LED lights, a detailed engine and brick-built suspension, plus – in authentic Espace tradition – space for multiple mini-figures. There’s lots more of the model to see at Sergio’s photostream you can race back to when Renault were on top via the link above.

Bricks on Track | LEGO Documentary Trailer

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LEGO’s extensive new partnership with Formula has brought every single Formula 1 team to bedroom floors in brick form. Which of course meant some extensive marketing was needed too.

Cue the 2025 Miami Formula 1 Grand Prix drivers parade, in which nineteen of the world’s best racing drivers (and Lance Stroll) took to the circuit in life-size, drivable, 400,000 piece replicas of their real Formula 1 cars, giving the Alpine drivers their best chance of an overtake all season.

The hugely ambitious project was filmed throughout its year-long gestation, with an hour-long behind-the-scenes documentary soon due for release, showing how LEGO and Formula 1 pulled off one the greatest racing marketing stunts of recent times. The official trailer has just dropped, and you can get ready for the slowest, but perhaps best, Formula 1 race of 2025 via LEGO’s YouTube channel above.

Rolling a Six

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The Lego Car Blog Elves are very excited today…

This is the 1976 Tyrrell P34, Formula 1’s only racing-winning 6-wheeler, and – as things currently stand – the only 6-wheeler that will ever win a race as the fun-sponges at Formula 1 banned cars with more than four wheels a few years later. Because… honestly we have no idea.

This fabulous recreation of the Elf-liveried P34 comes from TLCB debutant bentobrick, who has constructed motorsport’s most recognisable design brilliantly in brick, including a working replica Cosworth DFV engine and four-wheel steering (as shown in the excellent render below).

There’s more of bentobrick’s superb 1976 Tyrrell P34 to see at the Eurobricks forum, where a link to building instructions is also available, and you can head to a Grand Prix in 1976 via the link above.

The Horndog

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2025 is the year that Christian Horner finally departed Red Bull after managing the team through two decades, six World Championships, and a few compromising Whats App messages…

He is in fact the only Team Principal that Red Bull Racing have ever had, having led the team from its formation in 2005 right up until the pictures of his horndog he rather stupidly sent caught up with him.

The team continues on however, and their RB21 is still able to win races (at least in the hands of one of its drivers), despite the loss of another titan of the team, designer Adrian Newey (although his departure wasn’t due to sending inappropriate pictures of his wang to female staff).

Cue Y Akimeshi‘s excellent brick-built recreation of the Red Bull RB21, pictured within a street circuit vignette featuring some superb ‘Pirelli’ lettering. There’s more of the build to see on Flickr and you can send some compromising What App messages and undo a twenty year legacy via the link above.

F1: The Movie

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Oh how we want to hate ‘F1: The Movie’. From its stupid name, to its cliched plot (old guy comes out of retirement for one last shot at glory), to the fact it is basically one giant advert for F1…

Except, it seems like it might – annoying – be rather good.

Currently with an 83% Rotten Tomatoes score, ‘F1: The Movie’ used real cars (modified F2 machines) and real tracks to create a film that takes the audience as close to being in the car as possible, even if the main protagonist being sixty years old is pushing the believability to breaking point.

Cue this fantastic recreation of the fictional team at the heart of the story, ‘APX GP’, as created beautifully in brick form by NV Carmocs of Flickr. A stunning livery perfectly captures the ‘real’ car, and you can head to the cinema, um… race track via the link above, where nearly a dozen images are available to view. Even if you’re sixty.

In Remembrance of Luca Rusconi

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Writing for The Lego Car Blog is mostly a happy thing. Occasionally however, it isn’t, and with much sadness this is one of those times.

Multiple bloggee, TLCB Master MOCer, and one of the most talented vehicle builders anywhere in the world, has placed his last piece.

Famed for his spectacular historic Formula 1 cars, Luca Rusconi, aka RoscoPC, was tragically killed in a motorcycle accident just outside of his hometown Milan. Aged 54, he leaves behind his wife, three children, and a Lego Community that will miss him terribly.

His incredible Lego work remains on Flickr, his website, and via archives such as our own, and we encourage you to take a look – we have no doubt it will forever be amongst the finest ever built.

Life-Size LEGO F1 in Miami

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Today is the Miami Formula 1 Grand Prix, and this year there’s even more plastic than usual.

The plastic surgery capital of America, Miami is used to seeing tons and tons of petroleum-based polymer. Most of it walking around. But this year there’s an additional fifteen tons of it, and none of the extra is in the faces of the race-goers. Because LEGO have recreated all ten of the 2025 Formula 1 teams’ cars in life-size form, from a staggering four million bricks.

A year in the making, each 400,000 piece, 1,500kg replica was produced by LEGO’s Kladno studio in the Czech Republic, who constructed each car around a metal frame and accurately recreated every team’s livery and sponsors.

Best of all, all ten 1:1 scale Formula 1 cars have been fitted with working steering, brakes, and an electric motor, which means that right now (literally as we type this), 2025’s Formula 1 drivers are aboard their own life-size LEGO Formula 1 cars driving around the Miami circuit.

With the cars limited to 20km/h, the parade lap will take a little longer than the Miami lap record, but that’ll give the fans plenty of time to watch actual Formula 1 drivers trundling around a racetrack in LEGO. And Lance Stroll will still probably find a way to stack it.

You’ll be able to watch the drivers in action in their very own 1:1 scale LEGO Formula 1 racers at the Miami Grand Prix on YouTube once Formula 1 upload it, you can see Lando Norris getting some sneaky life-size LEGO-driving practice in here, and you can check out the full range of officially-licensed LEGO Formula 1 sets, which the life-size models have been built to promote, by clicking this bonus link.

Fastest Printer

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LEGO have released an enormous array of officially-licensed Formula 1 sets for 2025, and this includes last year’s Ferrari SF24 car.

But this year’s Ferrari has one crucial difference from the 2024 car; seven-time Formula 1 World Champion Lewis Hamilton. Which means Ferrari’s smooth-brained strategists can now screw up the race of the most successful driver in Formula 1 history.


Cue this phenomenal recreation of the 2025 Scuderia Ferrari, which swaps the Technic construction of LEGO’s official SF24 set for Model Team visual realism.

Flickr’s Szunyogh Balazs has enhanced this further with an accurate livery, including Ferrari’s HP title sponsor. And whilst printers are amongst the most  irritating machines in existence, with ours seemingly controlled by Ferrari’s aforementioned strategists, it’s a considerable improvement on subversive adverts for cigarettes.

There’s a whole lot more of Szunyogh’s beautifully presented Ferrari SF25 to see at his Flickr album of the same name, and you can Send-to-Printer via the link above.

LEGO Technic 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Car | Set Preview

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Following our huge preview of the all new LEGO Formula 1 range, encompassing all ten teams and spanning themes from Duplo to Technic, there’s one more Formula 1 set that escaped the reveal. This is the brand new LEGO Technic 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Car!

Yes, like Red Bull evading the Formula 1 budget cap, or their team principal dodging responsibility for sexual misconduct, this new flagship Technic Formula 1 set eluded last week’s reveal. Although perhaps LEGO were waiting until Max Verstappen had wrapped up the Drivers’ World Championship for more clout.

Whatever, 42206 joins the equally-sized 42207 Ferrari SF-24 F1 Car previously previewed, and brings Verstappen’s title-winning F1 car to the Technic range. Like the Ferrari, the new Red Bull RB20 is aimed at ages 18+ and features a working V6 engine with spinning MGU-H unit, a two-speed gearbox, steering, suspension, operational rear-wing DRS, replica (although equal-width) Pirelli slicks, and a billion stickers.

Much like the real Red Bull F1 Team, the new 42206 set manages some trick accountancy too, costing the same €229.99 / $229.99 / £199.99 as its Ferrari counterpart, but with three-hundred more parts (although we’re not sure where they’ve all gone). How’s that for attention to the back-story! Thus if price-per-part is your thing, 42206 is the better value of the two 2025 Technic Formula 1 flagships.

You’ll be able to get your hands on the new LEGO Technic 42206 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Car when it races into stores in March 2025, joining the rest of an expansive LEGO Formula 1 line-up.