Speed Champions

Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 F1 Race Car

A tiny, blue and navy blur that nails the nose cone on the first try.

Brick Rated Score

4.0/5

Set 77243 · 2025

Pieces251

Minifigs1

Year2025

Set number77243

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The verdict

I built this one on a Sunday afternoon expecting a quick throwaway session, and instead I found myself turning it over in my hands to check the front wing detail twice.

The RB20 shape is instantly readable even shrunk down to Speed Champions scale, and the low, wide stance sells the speed before it ever hits a shelf. It will not challenge an experienced builder for more than half an hour, and that is fine, because this set was never trying to be a Technic marathon. If you want a fast, satisfying single sitting build with a real car silhouette at the end, this delivers exactly that.

Best for: F1 fans and Speed Champions collectors who want a quick, shelf-ready build rather than a weekend project

The full review

What it is

The Oracle Red Bull Racing RB20 is a Speed Champions single car set, which means the whole appeal rides on whether the model reads as the real thing at a fraction of the size. It does. The narrow cockpit, the stepped nose, the barge boards along the sides, all of it comes together into a shape you would recognize on a track from fifty feet away. That is the trick this theme has gotten remarkably good at pulling off, and the RB20 is one of the cleaner recent examples.

The catch

I will be honest about the tradeoffs. At 251 pieces this is not a long build, and if you are used to bigger Speed Champions releases or Technic-scale cars, you will finish this one in well under an hour and maybe wish there had been more to chew on. Some of the livery work also comes down to stickers rather than printed elements, and getting the panel lines to line up straight takes more patience than the actual construction does. Neither of those is a dealbreaker, but they are worth knowing before you order.

Who it's for

This is a set for someone who wants a fast, satisfying build and a genuine F1 shelf piece, not someone chasing a marathon session or a huge part count for the price. Diehard Red Bull and Verstappen-era fans will get real joy out of having the RB20 in brick form, and kids getting their first taste of Speed Champions will have a blast with a build this approachable. If you are shopping purely by price per piece, look elsewhere in the lineup first.

The parts story

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

Assembly moves quickly and in a logical front to back order, starting with the narrow nose cone and front wing assembly before building out to the wider sidepods and rear wing. Nothing here trips up a builder of any experience level, which is exactly the point of the Speed Champions format, but there are enough curved slopes and wedge plates involved that it never feels like simple stacking either.

The standout moment is how much shape the model gets out of so few pieces, the nose taper and low profile come from clever angled plates rather than brute-force part count. The driver minifigure in team racing gear is a nice touch that a lot of single-car sets skip, and it turns the finished build from a static model into something with a bit more personality sitting on a shelf.

Fun facts

01The RB20 was the Red Bull Racing car that dominated the 2024 Formula 1 season under the Oracle Red Bull Racing banner, and LEGO's Speed Champions team builds these liveries to match the real car as closely as the scale allows.
02Speed Champions single-car sets like this one are built to a compact, consistent scale so they can sit side by side with other cars in the theme on the same shelf.
03LEGO has increasingly leaned on printed elements for Speed Champions liveries in recent years, though smaller single-car sets still mix in stickers to keep the piece count and price down.