21 November 2024

Revealed: Formula 1® joins multiple LEGO® themes in 2025

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LEGO® Speed Champions, LEGO® City, LEGO® DUPLO® and LEGO® Collectables are teaming up with Formula 1® to drive the excitement of the racetrack to your home. In January, March and May 2025, new waves of LEGO sets will launch that feature all ten F1 teams.

2025 Lego Formula 1 supertheme revealed across many lines


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This reveal is the first step in a new multi-year partnership between the two juggernaut brands that will connect even more LEGO builders with the world of F1. With every one of the 10 teams represented across the sets, fans can buy their favourite team's car, while others will want to collect the lot. 

The sets release in time for the celebrations of the 75th anniversary of F1, and some are available for pre-order in selected countries; check out the LEGO Formula 1 page at LEGO.com/F1.

 

Page contents

  1. March 2025 LEGO Speed Champions F1
  2. January 2025 LEGO City F1
  3. May 2025 LEGO Collectibles F1 
  4. January 2025 LEGO DUPLO F1


March 2025 LEGO Speed Champions F1

Taking centre stage with their trademark detailed replicas of iconic cars is the LEGO Speed Champions theme, and this time there's more than ever!


  • Release date: 1 March 2025

Sets and pricing:

These sets are packed with authentic details in the shaping and decoration of the bodywork, but the chassis structure appears to be similar between each of the cars from what we can make out. The great thing about that is, we will be able to get the same elements in many different recolours or printed versions at once!

Decorations are a mix of printing and stickers, and some of the printing technology looks amazing on these parts with multiple surfaces.

There are heaps of recoloured pieces, but we're especially interested to learn more about a couple of new moulds we spotted.


The rear wings are what seems to be a Brick Curved, 6 x 2 x 1 with Inverted Cutout, No Studs. It comes in black in every set except 77247 KICK Sauber F1® Team C44 Race Car as pictured above, where it is green. 

Unfortunately, being 6-wide, its usage will be limited, but it looks like its arc could possibly match existing curves such as Brick Curved, 3 x 1 with 1/3 Inverted Cutout (70681)?



The wishbone shape with a curved panel is a new mould representing the Wheel Tethers with Aero Cover. We can image why LEGO chose to go with a specialised element here; when you have such a specific shape in a small space in a product that needs to survive heavy play, it's often the best option. 

It is coming in black on all of the cars. Might make a good bar stool for minifigures? Especially if you're designing a Hard Rock Cafe!

Rather than giving your scroll finger a strain from showing you every picture of every car, let's take a look at one picture of each.
 

77242 Ferrari SF-24 F1® Race Car

77243 Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1® Race Car


77244 Mercedes-AMG PETRONAS W15 F1® Race Car


77245 Aston Martin Aramco F1® AMR24 Race Car


77246 Visa Cash App VCARB 01 F1® Race Car

77247 KICK Sauber F1® Team C44 Race Car



77248 BWT Alpine F1® Team A524 Race Car


77249 Williams Racing FW46 F1® Race Car


77250 MoneyGram Haas F1® Team VF-24 Race Car


77251 McLaren MCL38 F1® Team Race Car


What are your thoughts? Will you be driving them all home, or does the repetition put you off?



January 2025 LEGO City F1

These sets are based upon the Grand Prix weekend, with sets featuring car transport, garage repairs, race starts and pit stops.


60442 F1® Driver with McLaren Race Car

  • Age: 6+
  • Price: US$12.99/ £10.99/ 12,99 DE€/ Other countries
  • Pieces: 86
  • Measures: 3 cm x 14 cm x 5 cm
  • Available: 1 January 2025


    • 60443 F1® Pit Stop & Pit Crew with Ferrari Car 



    60444 F1® Garage & Mercedes-AMG & Alpine Cars 




    60445 F1® Truck with RB20 & AMR24 F1 Cars 




    60464 F1® Williams Racing & Haas F1 Race Cars  




    60474 F1® Grid with VCARB & Sauber Race Cars 



    May 2025 LEGO Collectibles 71049 F1 Racecars 


    I've not heard of the LEGO Collectibles theme before; perhaps it is something that LEGO Minifigures fall under.

    Similarly to that line, the F1 series is a single SKU with 12 mini-cars to collect by purchasing blind boxes. They are inky dinky little racers of questionable proportions. 


    Those new helmets look cool, and we assume they do fit minifigures, but we're not certain just from these pics!

    And how about that steering? It looks like a new U-shaped curved bar, which would be fantastically useful! But after the recent fiasco with the arm pieces in LEGO Wicked and LEGO Wednesday sets that turned out to be fused together, we're not ruling out that these bars might be stuck to those clips holding them.



    Also new is the front wings piece, and presumably the chassis. We're not sure what the extent of the chassis is though – for example does it include the attachment for the white pins joining the wheels on? Is it a pre-made assembly including the front wings?



    All ten F1® teams are featured along with F1 and F1 ACADEMY™ show cars to make up 12.


    January 2025 LEGO DUPLO F1

    10445 Town F1® Team Race Cars & Drivers 

    The youngest racing enthusiasts don't miss out – after all, gotta develop those motor skills, right? This set comes with customisable race cars and drivers, a starting grid and a podium. 


    More information on all these sets is available at LEGO.com/F1.

     

    READ MORE: Review: 40700 Winter Holiday Train GwP for LEGO® Insiders Weekend

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    9 comments:

    1. Andrew Barnick21 Nov 2024, 18:32:00

      The 6x2 "spoiler slope" looks useful indeed, especially if it matches other curved slope/arch pieces (it certainly looks like it might). It looks to be about 2.5 plates thick at the back and 1 plate thick at the front, which would be—and could be great in combination with other slopes as a subtle accessibility ramp.

      I can't imagine that the clips/bars from the tiny sets will be fused—unlike the part from the Wicked sets (which seems to have been a late change and functions as a cuff of sorts on long-sleeved figures), there's really no reason why the clips here would have to be clip-shaped if they were one coinjected piece. The new wheels on those sets also look nice—the same size and connectivity as 42610 but with a smoother shape and printing. In general, the printed parts from those sets might be some of my favorites, since the wheels and many of the slopes and tiles used for each car seem to have nice streamlined and simple patterns with reduced branding, making them more versatile than the abundant car and brand logos in the other sets.

      Ultimately F1 isn't really my thing, though, and I'm more interested in the Mario Kart sets that will also be debuting next year.

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      1. Andrew Barnick22 Nov 2024, 02:43:00

        By the way, I think the curved slope for the nose of the Speed Champions cars is 6x1x1, not 6x2x1 (but not to be confused with the existing 6x1 curved slope with studs on top).

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    2. Anonymous21 Nov 2024, 18:56:00

      aaaaahhhhhh Goodbye, moneys.

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    3. Jimmythefly21 Nov 2024, 20:01:00

      Wait a sec...can it really be....DIFFERENT SIZED TIRES!! Am I seeing correctly or do the Speed Champions sets not have actually wider rear tires!!?!

      Also, I find it cool/interesting that the City F1 cars appear to be 7-wide. I'm curious if we will get a new/interesting chassis or other odd-stud-length parts from those.

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    4. Anonymous21 Nov 2024, 20:14:00

      The helmets on the collectables and the helmets on the Speed Champions figures are one and the same. Of course they're minifigure-compatible.

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    5. Bfa22 Nov 2024, 03:05:00

      The mini "Collectible" cars remind me of the goofy little Xalax crash racers, which is fun.

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      1. Darmetricus23 Nov 2024, 03:17:00

        I thought the same thing! There were also those Racers a year or two later that came with minifig heads and one-piece bodies (I think Kev Levell used one to pilot an A-Wing a while back) that might be an even closer match. I'm not a big Formula 1 fan, but if this gets us closer to a return to Xalax, I'm in. ;)

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      2. Bfa23 Nov 2024, 05:59:00

        Oh yeah, those little pull-back Drome dinguses. I think I might have been conflating the two, actually. Never had either but had seen both, so they do blur together a bit.

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