LEGO's most ambitious F1 year ever launched in 2025. Here's what's in the collection — and what changes when the lights come on.
LEGO and F1: a new partnership, a complete grid
In November 2024, LEGO and F1 announced a multi-year strategic partnership — the first formal, full-license collaboration between the two brands. The timing was deliberate: 2025 marked Formula 1's 75th anniversary, and the sport wa=s coming off several years of extraordinary audience growth. Drive to Survive had introduced a generation of new fans. The Las Vegas Grand Prix had turned the sport into a mainstream entertainment event. Global viewership for the 2025 season was tracking above prior years. LEGO committed to the partnership with full force.
What launched in early 2025 was the most comprehensive F1 product range LEGO had ever produced. For the first time in the brand's history, all ten current F1 teams were represented in LEGO Speed Champions sets — a complete 2025 grid in 1:18 scale, each car with accurate livery, Pirelli-branded tyres, and a team driver minifigure. Alongside the Speed Champions line came the 1:8 Technic flagships, a City range across six sets, a collectible blind-box series, and DUPLO. LEGO had built an entire F1 ecosystem in a single season.
The Speed Champions grid
The ten Speed Champions sets cover every team on the 2025 grid: Ferrari SF-24 (#77242), Red Bull RB20 (#77243), Mercedes-AMG W15 (#77244), Aston Martin AMR24 (#77245), RB VCARB 01 (#77246), KICK Sauber C44 (#77247), Alpine A524 (#77248), Williams FW46 (#77249), Haas VF-24 (#77250), and McLaren MCL38 (#77251). Each build is around 250–260 pieces, with a working cockpit and halo bar.
The 2025 and 2026 additions extend the line further: the Audi R26 (#77259)) — Audi's long-anticipated F1 entry — and the F1 Academy car (#77258), representing the all-female development series. The Speed Champions grid is now the most complete single-sport LEGO collection ever made.
The Technic and legacy sets
The 1:8 Technic flagships — the Red Bull RB20 (#42206) and Ferrari SF-24 (#42207) — launched alongside the Speed Champions range in March 2025. Both are 1,300–1,600 piece builds with working suspension, 2-speed gearboxes, and DRS rear wings. For collectors who built the earlier Technic F1 cars — the McLaren F1 #42141 or the Mercedes-AMG F1 W14 #42171 — those sets now carry added historical weight: the W14 was Hamilton's last Mercedes before his move to Ferrari in 2025, which is the kind of provenance that appreciates rather than fades. LEGO City's pit stop sets — particularly the Ferrari Pit Stop & Crew (#60443) — bring garage-level detail to a more accessible price point and scale.
What ZENE lighting adds
F1 cars are engineered for airflow, not for display. The surfaces that define a car's performance character — the floor edge, the diffuser, the undercut sidepods — are all on the underside or at angles that overhead ambient light never reaches. Under flat room lighting, a LEGO F1 car shows you the livery. That's it.
Undefined light kits place LEDs beneath and within the build, illuminating the elements that make each car distinctive at display distance. Underglow traces the floor edge and rear diffuser, making the car's wide, low stance read correctly from the front. Wing LEDs pick out the front and rear aero profiles. For the Speed Champions scale — where fine detail is easy to lose in a build of 250 pieces — directional lighting does the most work: a properly lit McLaren or Williams at 1:18 shows more visual complexity than a larger build under ambient light.
For the full ten-car grid display, each car's livery drives the lighting approach. Ferrari's red pairs with warm tones. Mercedes' silver reads best cold. Red Bull's navy deepens under cool blue. Alpine's pink and blue livery supports both. LEGO built the grid. ZENEBricks turns the lights on.
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