City

F1 Grid with VCARB & Sauber Race Cars

Two real F1 liveries, one small box, and a surprising amount of grid-day energy for the price.

Brick Rated Score

3.8/5

Set 60474 · 2025

Pieces313

Minifigsn/a

Year2025

Set number60474

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The verdict

I like this set for what it does not pretend to be.

It is not a Technic supercar with working suspension, it is a City-scale pit lane toy with two officially liveried F1 cars, the VCARB and the Sauber, sitting nose to nose like they are waiting for lights out. The builds themselves are quick and a little basic, mostly a chassis, a nose cone, and stickers doing the heavy lifting on the livery detail rather than printed parts. If you or your kid actually follow the sport and want the current grid's colors on a shelf, it earns its spot. If you are chasing engineering complexity, this will feel over in an afternoon.

Best for: F1 fans and City-scale racers who want current team liveries without committing to Technic money or build time

The full review

What it is

This is one of the smaller entries in LEGO's first real push into official Formula 1 team licensing, and what got me is how much personality two little cars can carry when the colors are right. The VCARB blue and the Sauber green sit side by side like an actual grid photo, and if you follow the sport even casually, seeing the current-season liveries done in brick, rather than a generic red racer, is genuinely satisfying. It is a City set at heart, chunky proportions, driver minifigs, easy clutch power, built for a kid to grab off the shelf and race across the carpet rather than sit behind glass.

The catch

I will be straight with you about the tradeoffs. At 313 pieces for two cars, neither model gets much room to be detailed. The chassis work is simple, the aero elements are simplified into a few curved and sloped pieces, and a good amount of the team branding comes from stickers rather than printed parts, which is the thing enthusiast reviewers always dock these smaller licensed sets for. Sticker sheets in a car this size also mean small margin for error lining up sponsor logos on curved nose pieces. It is not a bad build so much as a fast, light one, closer to a half hour project than an afternoon.

Who it's for

Get this one if you want a paired grid display, if a young F1 fan wants their favorite current teams in brick form without a big price tag, or if you are building out a wider F1 shelf scene set by set. Skip it if you were hoping for Technic-level detail or a single hero car, the value here is in the pair and the current liveries, not in engineering depth.

The parts story

What the build is actually like, and the pieces worth knowing about.

Building this is a fast, low-friction session, more snap-together than puzzle. Each car goes together in recognizable stages, a lower chassis and cockpit tub first, then the nose cone and rear wing assemblies clip on, then the sticker work finishes the livery. There is no sorting headache and no ambiguous step, which makes it a solid one-sitting build for a younger fan working solo.

The standout here is simply having two current F1 team liveries rendered in parts at all. The VCARB's blue and the Sauber's green and black both use fairly ordinary City-line elements, curved slopes and wedge pieces doing double duty as aero bodywork, so there are no new exotic molds to chase. The real part-count value is in getting two separate liveried chassis, complete with wheels, cockpits, and driver minifigs, for a modest piece count, which is what makes this work as a paired grid display rather than a single showpiece car.

Fun facts

0160474 belongs to LEGO's 2025 wave of officially licensed Formula 1 City sets, the first time LEGO brought current-season team liveries into its mainstream City theme rather than a one-off promotional model.
02VCARB refers to Visa Cash App RB, the Formula 1 team also known as Racing Bulls, one of the smaller teams on the current grid alongside Sauber.
03Pairing two rival teams' cars in a single box rather than releasing single-car sets lets younger builders stage their own head-to-head grid scenes without buying multiple boxes.